Services Offered
There are a variety of different styles, types and techniques of massage utilized by massage therapists. Provided below are descriptions of the services that are offered within the comfort of your own home.
Swedish Massage- 60min $75, 90min $100, 120min $140
Swedish Massage is the most known type of massage. It uses five styles of long, flowing strokes to warm up the muscle tissues to increase the elasticity in the tissues which promotes flexibility. It is the most known type of massage. Swedish massage has shown to be helpful in reducing pain, joint stiffness, and improving blood circulation. It helps to significantly decrease levels of stress and reduce anxiety and tension.
Deep Tissue Massage- 60min $85, 90min $110, 120min $150
Deep Tissue massage is designed to relieve severe tension in the muscle and the connective tissue or fascia. This type of massage focuses on the muscles located below the surface of the top muscles. Deep tissue massage is often recommended for individuals who experience consistent pain, are involved in heavy physical activity, such as athletes, and patients who have sustained physical injury. It is also not uncommon for receivers of Deep Tissue Massage to have their pain replaced with a new muscle ache for a day or two. Deep tissue work varies greatly. What one calls deep tissue another will call light. When receiving deep tissue work it is important to communicate what you are feeling.
Sports Massage-60min $85, 90min $110, 120min $150
Sports massage is actually a form of Swedish massage that is delivered to athletes. Most commonly, sports massage focuses on increasing blood and lymphatic fluid flow, reducing and eliminating pain as well as tender trigger points, and increasing range of motion of the affected area. As the names indicate, each type of sports massage has a different focus for the athlete as they are delivered at different times during their training and performance schedule.
Hot Stone Massage- 60min $85, 90min$110, 120min $150
Hot stone massage uses water-heated stones to apply pressure and heat to the body. Stones coated in oil can also be used by the therapist delivering various massaging strokes. The hot stones used are commonly river stones which over time, have become extremely polished and smooth. As the stones are placed along the recipient's back, they help to retain heat which then deeply penetrates into the muscles, releasing tension.
Trigger Point Therapy- (included with Deep Tissue and Sports Massage)
Trigger points or trigger sites are described as hyper-irritable spots in skeletal muscle that are associated with palpable nodules in taut bands of muscle fibers. Trigger point practitioners believe that these palpable nodules are small contraction knots and a common cause of pain. Compression of a trigger point may elicit local tenderness, referred pain, or local twitch response. The local twitch response is not the same as a muscle spasm. A muscle spasm refers to the entire muscle entirely contracting whereas the local twitch response also refers to the entire muscle but only involves a small twitch, no contraction. The trigger point model states that unexplained pain frequently radiates from these points of local tenderness to broader areas, sometimes distant from the trigger point itself. Practitioners claim to have identified reliable referred pain patterns, allowing practitioners to associate pain in one location with trigger points elsewhere.
