Deep Tissue Massage for Plantar Fasciitis
deep tissue massage for plantar fasciitis
Plantar fasciitis is an inflammation due to constriction of the fascia in the foot. This can come from wearing shoes without proper support like with women who wear high heels, it is very common in athletes who are on their feet a lot, but forget to stretch their feet and often prevalent with women who are pregnant.
Deep tissue massage for Plantar Fasciitis can be very painful for the recipient but the results are astounding. Utilizing *passive and **active movement stretching techniques with direct pressure on the constricted fascia will allow the fascia to stretch 20 times more than a person could do on their own stretching of their foot.
*A passive movement stretch is where the body specialist moves the foot from extension to flexion or flexion to extension while applying direct pressure on the taut muscle;
**an active movement is done with the same direct pressure on the taut muscle by the body specialist but the movement of flexion or extension of the foot is done by the recipient.
Deep Tissue Massage for Tennis Elbow
Chronic tennis elbow often has a momentary onset without any precursor pain during a normal recurrent activity by the recipient.
Tennis elbow is where the lateral epicondyle tendon attachment becomes inflamed and results in pain localized to its area and can create pain branching off from its central core. The inflammation is in the tendon fascia which is the fiber encasement.
One of the WORST things you can do to yourself or have a practitioner do to you that will cause increased inflammation is to do strong deep tissue massage friction directly on the tendon.
Why Choose Trigger Point Massage Therapy
A Trigger Point is an area of elevated neurological activity located in fascia and the bellies of muscles that may refer pain in a localized or peripheral manner. Trigger Points occur when a muscle is in constant contraction from how you hold yourself. Generally, stiff holding patterns occur in the shoulders due to daily stress. These holding patterns go undetected to our conscious state because they are so slight that the contraction is on the fibril level of the entire muscle.
If one fiber begins fatiguing, it will spasm and if it is wrapped around a nerve, the effect is wretched. When a trigger point is active, it can cause a substantial increase in a client’s myofascial pain locally or, in what seems to be a totally unrelated area of the body. Many people get shooting pains down either arm or up the neck. Also, this may produce numbing in the fingers, migraines, or even simply, a sharp, annoying pain in any specific area that prevents movement. If left untreated, a Trigger Point can prevent muscles from fully healing and ultimately have adverse long-term effects on other systems.
Trigger Point Massage will help relieve trigger point symptoms. Please see future blog posts for HOW.
Why Choose Myofascial Deep Tissue Massage
Myofascial Deep Tissue Massage helps to break up and eliminate scar tissue by focusing on a couple specific areas with each treatment. It is both corrective and therapeutic. The pressure is only done to the clients muscle’s point of resistance and the strokes are extremely slow so the muscle ‘gives way’ and relaxes. “Deep” doesn’t necessarily mean “hard.” With the proper technique, muscles deep in the body can be reached with minimal pressure.
Myofascial deep tissue massage focuses on stretching the connective tissue known as fascia and aiming to release the chronic patterns of tension in the body with slow strokes and deep finger pressure on the contracted areas going with and across the fiber of the muscles.
For maximum benefit, myofascial deep tissue massage should be done in a series of ten treatments to stretch the fascia throughout the body and incorporate movement from you to get the maximum stretch for each particular body part.
A Los Angeles in home massage perfect for the high profile client
You want a massage to De-stress yourself and traffic is antithetical to that equation. A Los Angeles in home massage is the perfect fit so you don’t have to drive anywhere.
You want a massage as your night cap so you can roll off your relaxing table into your cozy bed. A Los Angeles in home massage is the perfect fit so you are already in the comfort of your own home.
You want a massage but the paparazzi follow you around wherever you go and you don’t want the world knowing your business. A Los Angeles in home massage is the perfect fit to be discreet.
Why it’s so hard to find a great Los Angeles Massage
Los Angeles County has 72 municipalities inside of it including Santa Monica, Beverly Hills and Culver City to name a few. Each municipality has its own city government with rules, regulations and codes to follow.
Up until September of 2009 there were no streamlined regulations for massage therapists in LA County and schooling requirements as well as licensure was up to each municipality. Some municipalities such as Beverly Hills actually had no requirements whatsoever to become a licensed massage therapist and therefore, any person who awoke one day with the idea they would like to promote touching people ‘legitimately’ could obtain a license for just under $800 and apply to work at the spas and chiropractic offices in town.
It is so hard to find a quality Los Angeles massage because of the lack of regulation for massage in California. Even with the California license put in effect, it is still not a requirement to hold a state license to work in the field of massage and people are still able to obtain a city license as a form of legitimacy for their touch practice.
Myofascial Deep Tissue for Low Back Pain
Low back pain is the number one body ache complaint among adults worldwide. Almost all low back pain is muscularly related whether that is the muscles pulling the vertebrae out of place, a tight muscle fiber restricting a nerve causing shooting pains or a constricted muscle causing stiffness of the back and inhibiting movement.
The two largest lower back muscles include the quadratus lumborum (the muscle that allows you to turn side to side and goes from your hip bone to the lower spine just below your ribcage) and the multifidi (the muscle that bends you forward and goes from the base of your spine running between each vertebra to your neck). With tension in either of these muscles, you may experience stiffness, shooting pains, inflexibility to turn or bend forward or a general ‘back ache’.
Myofascial deep tissue for low back pain should be an essential part of your healing treatment. With lengthening techniques to manually stretch the multifidi and cross fiber techniques to release tension in the quadratus lumborum, myofascial deep tissue for low back pain is an essential part of your healing and can rid you of your low back pain in as little as one treatment.
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