Massage gives you a map of stress areas in your body. Very often people don't know how much stress they are carrying until they have a treatment.

As the Therapist stretches and loosens muscles and connective tissues, stress and muscular tension are released. Once you have an awareness of where stress lodges in your body, you can begin to do something about it. You start to educate yourself and your body, and you reverse a negative cycle.

Neuromuscular Therapy is often prescribed for injuries and conditions of pain. It works at softening the muscles so that the Therapist can move in more deeply to break up adhesions and release muscles. This allows muscles to become really elastic, the way they should be. The body then may be freed of spasm and pain, increase its range of motion, and have the ability to avoid injury.

Massage Will

• Maintain the body in better condition.
• Help prevent injuries and loss of mobility.
• Aid healing and restore mobility to injured muscle tissue.
• Help boost performance.
• Help extend the overall life of your sporting career.

Physical effects Are

• Pumping - The stroking movements in massage suck fluid through blood vessels and lymph vessels. By increasing the pressure in front of the stroke, a vacuum is created behind. This is especially important in tight or damaged muscle tissue as a tight muscle will squeeze blood out like a sponge, depriving the tissues of oxygen and vital nutrients and energy to repair.
• Increased tissue permeability - Deep massage causes the pores in tissue membranes to open, enabling fluids and nutrients to pass through. This helps remove waste products such as lactic acid and encourage the muscles to take up oxygen and nutrients which help them recover quicker.
• Stretching - Massage can stretch tissues that could not be stretched in the usual methods. Bundles of muscle fibres are stretched lengthwise as well as sideways. Massage can also stretch the sheath or fascia that surrounds the muscle, so releasing any tension or pressure build up.
• Break down scar tissue - Scar tissue is the result of previous injuries or trauma and can affect muscle, tendons and ligaments. This can lead to inflexible tissues that are prone to injury and pain.
• Improve tissue elasticity - Hard training can make tissues hard and inelastic. This is one reason why hard training may not result in improvements. Massage helps reverse this by stretching the tissues.
• Opens micro-circulation - Massage does increase blood flow to tissues, but so does exercise. What massage also does is open or dilate the blood vessels and by stretching them this enables nutrients to pass through more easily.

What can massage really do?

Physical Level

• Deep relaxation and stress reduction
• Relief of muscle tension and stiffness
• Reduced muscle spasm and tension
• Relief from entrapment of nerves by muscles
• Greater joint flexibility and range of motion
• Increased ease and efficiency of movement
• Promoted deeper and easier breathing
• Better circulation of both blood and lymph fluids
• Reduced blood pressure
• Relief of tension-related or eye-strain headaches
• Healthier, better nourished skin
• Improved posture
• Faster healing from pulled muscles and sprained ligaments
• Reduces pain, swelling, and formation of scar tissue following injury
• General health maintenance

Mental Level

• Relaxed state of alertness
• Reduced mental stress: a calmer mind
• Greater ability to monitor stress signals and respond appropriately
• Increased capability for clearer thinking
• Emotional Level
• Feeling of well-being
• Reduced levels of anxiety