Injury
Recovery

Goal: Help reduce pain, swelling, stiffness, neurological symptoms and improve muscle guarding and compensatory imbalances.


Common Techniques: Myofascial release, Ligament Articular Strain Release (L.A.S.T), Joint Mobilizations, Trigger Point Therapy, 
Lymphatic Drainage

Durations: 45 / 60 / 75 minutes 

Motor Vehicle Accident (ICBC)

Goal: Reduce the many symptoms associated with whiplash including pain, tension, inflammation, and neurological symptoms along with headaches, dizziness/lightheadedness, sleep disturbance, and stress.

Treatment Plan: arrange a treatment schedule including home care to restore activities of daily living and regular lifestyle.

Durations: Initial Assessment 60 minutes, Standard Treatment 45 minutes 

Deep Tissue Massage Therapy

Goal: Reduce chronic tension of stubborn, deeper tissue knots using productive pressure.

Common Techniques: Trigger Point Therapy - prolonged held pressure to myofascial adhesions "knots" accompanied with controlled breathing and often referred pain reduction, Swedish massage

Durations: 45 / 60 / 75 minutes

Myofascial Release

Goal: To reduce general and local tension or "pulling", postural imbalance, and movement restrictions.

Common technique: Sustained and often slow gentle holds and stretches of tissue and joints.

Durations: 45 / 60 / 75 minutes 

Trigger Point Therapy

Goal: To release stubborn, often painful “knots” that often send pain elsewhere - for example, headaches are commonly caused from neck/shoulder trigger points.


Common technique: Locate trigger points with hands-on assessment, apply firm sustained pressure until tissue releases and referred pain subsides. 

Durations: 45/60/75 minutes 

TMJ Massage Therapy

Goal: Reduce jaw pain & tension associated with opening and closing the mouth, chewing, clenching, and clicking. Relieve associated headaches, face/neck tension.

Techniques: Trigger point release, myofascial release, swedish massage to external jaw, neck, face, and scalp tissues. Intra-oral techniques of short duration to associated mouth and jaw soft tissues & musculature with specific consent and within pain tolerance.

Expect: Gentle, timely, focused work with reassessment throughout to measure outcomes.

Durations: 45 / 60 / 75 minutes includes broader treatment to surrounding areas

Prenatal Massage

Goal: Reduce common aches, tension, swelling, poor circulation, and numbness/tingling, and sleep disturbances associated with pregnancy. Commonly focused areas are low-back, sacrum, hips, ribs, upper and lower limbs. sleep issues during pregnancy.


Techniques: Safe & comfortable positioning using a pregnancy pillow to lie prone (on stomach), or supportive pillows for side lying position.

Durations: 45 / 60 / 75 minutes

Postpartum Massage

Goal: Reduce the pain and tension from the many positions and demands a new mother undergoes. Commonly focused areas are neck, shoulders, back, chest, arms, wrists, thumbs. C-section recovery support by mobilizing scar tissue and relieving abdominal tension *only when scarring has healed*, swelling/pooled edema. Relieve stress and help promote rest.

Techniques: Appropriate positioning using pillow supports to take pressure off the chest or lower abdomen. 

Durations: 45 / 60 / 75 minutes

Lymphatic Drainage

Goals: Reduce localized swelling, pooled fluid from post-injury, peri or post operative, fluid retention, arthritis, heavy & tired limbs.

Technique: Very light, rhythmic techniques to encourage lymph flow; soothing pace, stretching, joint mobilization and range of motion.

Durations: 45 / 60 / 75 minutes

Pediatric Massage
(Children & Youth)

Massage therapy designed to support healthy growth, recovery, and relaxation for children and youth.

Goal: Reduce aches, pains, tensions caused by anything from growing pains to athletic injuries.

Techniques: Catered to age and tolerance level, commonly used are swedish massage, trigger point therapy, gently joint mobilizations, stretching

Durations: 45 minutes for children under 10 years is recommended to start, 45 / 60 / 75 minutes for youth over 10 years