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Medical
Massage Therapy
at Hands on
Health, Cary and
Raleigh massage
therapy:
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Medical massage therapy is a
treatment method that can be
used to help you recover from
painful muscle and joint
conditions and prevent the onset
of chronic pain patterns. TMJD,
lower back and neck pain,
tendonitis, fibromyalgia,
tension headaches, and
tension-triggered migraine
headaches are examples of
chronic conditions that benefit
from therapeutic manual
treatments. These manual
treatments include techniques
such as neuromuscular therapy,
trigger-point therapy, sports
compression, deep muscle
massage, myofascial stretches
and myofascial release.
In addition to benefiting from
the specificity of medical
massage techniques, our clients
are also more empowered by a
greater understanding of why
their bodies have tension and
pain and how to avoid future
chronic problems.
Among
other modalities, our medical
massage therapists practice the
Integrative Neuromuscular Massage
Therapy technique.
I-NMT
is a treatment method that uses
deep tissue, myofascial therapy, and trigger point
techniques in combination with a
postural based
treatment plan and client
education to adequately treat
soft tissue conditions. These
techniques, in combination with
modalities such as chiropractic
and physical therapy, lead to
long lasting results, often
allowing our patients to avoid
surgery or excessive pain
medication. Achieving
certification in the I-NMT
technique requires a thorough
knowledge of musculoskeletal
anatomy, injury-specific
treatment routines, and postural
analysis. Medical massage and
its associated
techniques takes a therapist dedicated
years of practice and training
and hours of supervision to
perfect.
For more information regarding
the I-NMT technique, visit our
page about
Hands on Health's
on-site
medical
massage therapy training program.
Medical massage therapists track
and treat symptoms such as
trigger points (radiating pain,
tenderness resulting from
ischemia (poor localized blood
flow), drastic muscle tone
imbalances (tension), and pain
patterns during movement or
remaining still).
Muscle pain is a signal that
your body is stressed and these
pain signals should not be
ignored. Chronic muscle tension
and soft tissue injury is often
caused by postural distortions
from past injuries, repetitive
overuse of muscles, or habitual
movement patterns. For example:
we find that many of our clients
suffer from muscle pain and
tension in their neck and
shoulders. Lifestyle factors
like hanging their heads forward
at the computer desk and sitting
in one place for long periods of
time "day in and day out " cause
this chronic build-up of
tension.
Chronic tension from past
muscular injuries such as
whiplash also perpetuate pain
patterns. If these lifestyle
factors and muscle injuries are
left uncorrected and ignored, a
person risks more severe injury
to his or her neck, shoulders
and upper arms. Nerve
impingement and numbing in the
arm or hand, intervertebral disc
herniation, degenerative disc
disease, and osteoarthritis are
examples of these preventable
more severe conditions.
For more
information, please see our
FAQ page.
Hands On
Health of Cary and Raleigh, NC
currently has six therapists who
are qualified to practice as
medical massage therapists. |
