Incorporating Massage Into Your Wellness Plan

Massage therapy can be used in conjunction with many of your other wellness practices to compliment and enhance their effectiveness. Acute and chronic conditions can often be improved through massage, including headaches, joint pain, anxiety, strains & sprains, carpal tunnel syndrome, neck stiffness, post traumatic stress, shin splints, fibromyalgia, TMJ disorders, plantar fasciatis, and many others. Consider asking if massage would be a beneficial addition to your treatment plan.

• Combine a Chiropractic adjustment with massage to release restrictions, help an adjustment “hold” longer, and retrain muscles that may be chronically pulling you out of alignment

• Add massage to your Physical Therapy sessions to increase passive and active range of motion and relieve secondary pain that may be outlasting its original cause

• Visit both the acupuncturist and a massage therapist to balance the function of muscles and harmonize the mind, body and spirit

• Insert massage as part of your pain management regime to bring focus to the entire body system, not solely at the site of your pain, to release tension, and to interrupt pain cycles

How You Can Benefit From Massage

Massage therapy has been shown to be effective in reducing stress and to help manage or relieve both specific and generalized pain.

• Sooth chronic discomfort associated with arthritis, carpal tunnel syndrome, fibromyalgia, and sports injuries

• Reduce anxiety, lower blood pressure, and increase circulation

• Lessen the stress response caused by work, family, school, traumatic events, and other emotional situations

• Decrease headache frequency and duration

• Speed healing of musculoskeletal injuries caused by car accidents, falls, overexertion, surgery, sprains, and strains

Other Services Offered at Advanced Medical Solutions of Doylestown

Advanced Medical Solutions of Doylestown has brought together a team of practitioners who are focused on the overall health and wellness of our clients.

• Chiropractic Care

• Massage Therapy

• Physical & Occupational Therapy

• Nutritional Counseling

• Holistic Medicine (HMD?)

• Family Medicine

• Pain Management

• and other adjunct modalities to round out your care

How To Get What You Really Want from Massage

We want to provide you with the best possible massage experience, every time. Communication is the best way to ensure that we meet this goal for each client. Please ask for what you want, tell us what you need, and know that it is your right as our client to make requests or to change your mind. When you are comfortable, secure and satisfied, your body responds more rapidly and with a deeper state of relaxation and healing. Our therapists are trained in a variety of techniques and customize every massage session to meet the individual needs of each client.

Massage Styles

Relaxation Massage:  Commonly referred to as Swedish massage, this type of session incorporates fluid strokes, kneading, pressing and stretching. The intention is to relieve overall muscle tension while addressing physical and mental stress. Relaxation massage is an excellent opportunity to unwind and reconnect with your body, mind and spirit. Regular sessions of relaxation massage are a perfect addition to your overall wellness plan.

Therapeutic Massage:  A combination of Deep Tissue and Swedish techniques, this massage concentrates on physical relaxation of the muscles and connective tissues. With a focus on areas of tension or pain, these sessions can produce significant changes in range of motion, areas of injury or scar tissue, postural imbalances, and headaches. Therapeutic massage is known to speed healing, improve circulation and release restrictions in your physical body, making it a valuable tool for maintaining your health.

Sports Massage:   Helping serious athletes and weekend warriors alike to maintain their bodies in optimal condition for performance, recover more quickly from big events, lessen the chance of injury and function well during training is the primary goal of sports massage. It can prolong the length of time you can maintain an active lifestyle or extend a sporting career. Sports massage can be helpful pre-event to warm up muscles, post-event to normalize tissues and reduce delayed muscle soreness, during training cycles to decrease the risk of injury, and as rehabilitation should injury occur.

Chair Massage:  While you are supported by a specially designed “chair”, your therapist uses kneading, pressing and stretching techniques to reach and release areas of tension. Chair massage is a quick and easy way to ease your aches and pains or to feel energized and refreshed in just a few minutes.

Additional Therapies

Aromatherapy:  The intent of this ancient healing art is to utilize the therapeutic properties of essential oils made from herbs, flowers and other plants. We use only the highest quality essential oils in their appropriate quantity, upon request, to add their healing benefits and fragrance to your treatments. Oils may either be added to the massage crème or diffused into the air.

Ear Candling: The technique of inserting a burning cone of waxed cloth in the ear as a health care modality dates back to ancient civilizations in Egypt, the Orient, as well as North and South America. Ear candling can act as a catalyst to clear out debris from nerve endings, allowing clear vibrational flow to corresponding areas of the body, mind & spirit. More subtle changes may occur on an energetic level, resulting in greater emotional stability and an overall sense of well-being. Positive Results reported with ear candling include:

• softening and break up of ear wax

• reduced allergy, cold and flu symptoms

• less congestion, sinus pressure and ear aches

• improvement of ringing in the ears or tinnitus

• decreased TMJ pain and headaches

• sharpened hearing, vision, smell, taste, vision, color perception, and mental functioning

Myofascial and Trigger Point Therapy:  The musculoskeletal system is held together by connective tissue called fascia, which is very densely woven, covering and interlaced between every muscle, bone and joint. When this tissue and the muscles it contains develop restrictions caused by chronic tension, posture, injury, or repetitive motions, it can result in trigger points. These areas may refer pain to other parts of the body when pressed. Using friction, vibration and sustained pressure on these specific areas can release the muscle and fascia fibers.

Reiki: (Ray-key)  Practitioners of this powerful hands-on healing technique are trained (attuned) to channel Universal Life Force Energy. A gentle, nurturing method of bodywork, it is used to promote wellness at the physical, emotional and spiritual levels. Reiki can alleviate pain, provide relief from anxiety, promote restful sleep, increase your sense of well being, and enhance your body’s natural healing ability. A Reiki treatment can be a stand-alone session or integrated with table or chair massage.