What is remedial massage?
Remedial massage is a complementary therapy aimed at treating damaged, knotted, tight or immobile muscles. It helps with a variety of problems that affect muscles, tendons, and bones, and can treat a variety of other health issues.Remedial massage therapy helps locate and repair damaged areas in the body and promotes the body's own healing process. The pressure used in this healing treatment can be strong and deep or gentle and shallow, depending on the problem.
Muscle problems can cause or radiate pain to other parts of the body. Remedial massage therapy aims to find the root cause of pain and address both the cause and the symptoms of the problem.
Who is remedial massage therapy for?
Remedial massage can be used to help people who:
- neck, shoulder, or back pain
- preventing injuries
- headaches
- sports or other injuries
- arthritis
- chronic pain
- fatigue
- anxiety or depression
- to treat the side effects of cancer, such as lymphoedema, Anxiety
- to manage the side effects of diabetes
- to help with addiction rehabilitation
What does a remedial massage involve?
Before your massage begins, your therapist will discuss your health and lifestyle. You will be asked to lie down on a table or sofa and cover yourself with a towel for privacy and warmth. They will probably use creams or oils to help them massage your skin smoothly.Therapists use a variety of techniques to locate and repair damaged parts of the body. They penetrate deep into the muscles associated with the problem. You can also stretch different parts of your body.
What are the health benefits of remedial massage?
Remedial massage therapy stimulates blood circulation, makes joints more flexible and helps repair damaged tissue. Therapists aim to balance length, tension, and tension in muscles and tendons to restore proper bone alignment, increase blood flow, and help heal injuries.By relaxing and stabilising your muscles, you can relieve headaches, abdominal pain, back pain, sciatica, and other problems.
Health problems commonly treated with remedial massage include sports and dance cramps, muscle spasms, whiplash, fibromyalgia, muscle atrophy, fibrosis, spondylitis, arthritis, and frozen shoulder.
Remedial massage has also been shown to help premature babies gain weight.
