Got Knots Massage Therapy Edmonton

05/23/2026

Bringing back a community favourite — this reminder still hits home. 🔁

Your massage shouldn't cause you pain. Pain does not equal healing, and treatment doesn't need to be uncomfortable in order to be effective.

Communicate with your practitioner if something hurts before or during your session. Don't be shy to ask to adjust the pressure according to your likes and needs. Each person is different, and each session may be different too!

Any questions? Leave us a comment below!

05/21/2026

If you have extended health benefits, your massage at Got Knots may cost you less than you think.

We direct bill to Telus Health, Sun Life Financial, Provider Connect, and ClaimsXchange. You pay your portion at the appointment and we handle the rest. No forms to submit, no waiting on reimbursement.

It's one less thing to think about before you book.

And if you've been putting off treatment because you weren't sure your benefits would stretch far enough, this is worth knowing.

Our team provides a range of treatments covered under most extended health plans:

👉 Sports Massage: for athletes and active clients managing load, recovery, and performance
👉 Deep Tissue Massage: for chronic tension, postural dysfunction, and pain that hasn't responded to lighter work
👉 Therapeutic Cupping: for fascial release, circulation, and the kind of muscle tension that doesn't respond to pressure alone
Your benefits are there. We make them easy to use.

📞 Call 780-455-7160 or schedule online on our website.

https://www.gotknots.ca/direct-billing-massage-therapy/

We provide direct billing massage services at Got Knots. Learn about our compatible health benefit providers and ease into your next massage.

05/19/2026

A Clinic That Treats Your Career Like a Priority

You’ve got talent—let’s put it to work. Got Knots offers full-time roles with real client flow, paid time, mentorship, and zero overhead. We invest in your success.

👉 Discover your full-time future:

We are a very busy North Edmonton massage therapy clinic looking for the best therapists. Call or email about massage therapy jobs.

05/12/2026

There's a particular kind of pain that gets easy to ignore.
The headache that arrives by Wednesday and stays through the weekend. The jaw that's been tight for so long you've stopped noticing it. The hip tension that showed up in the first trimester and simply never left.

You adapt. You manage. You keep going.

Brittany Forrest knows this pattern well, and not just clinically. Before she became a Registered Massage Therapist, she spent seven years as a Personal Support Worker. She understands what it means to live with persistent discomfort and still have a full day ahead of you.

Her practice reflects that understanding. She specializes in the conditions that tend to be undertreated and underestimated: tension headaches, TMJ dysfunction, sciatic and hip pain, and prenatal discomfort. Her approach is precise and patient — she works to understand where the pain originates, not just where it shows up.

For mothers-to-be managing the physical demands of pregnancy, Brittany's prenatal work provides the kind of care that's both safe and genuinely restorative. For anyone who has been quietly carrying more than their body should have to, she's the therapist who will actually listen.

If you or someone you love has been putting this off: now is a good time.

📞 Call 780-455-7160 or schedule online on our website.

05/10/2026

Happy Mother's Day from the Got Knots Massage Therapy Team!
To every mom out there — the ones who start their day before everyone else and end it long after everyone's asleep.

You carry a lot. Every single day.

Today, we just want to say: we see you, we appreciate you, and we're grateful for every one of you who has trusted us with your care.

Happy Mother's Day to our clients, our families, and every mother in the Edmonton community. 💛

With love and appreciation,
Nadine, Cara, and Brittany
The Got Knots Massage Therapy Team

05/07/2026

There's a particular kind of pain that gets easy to ignore.
The headache that arrives by Wednesday and stays through the weekend. The jaw that's been tight for so long you've stopped noticing it. The hip tension that showed up in the first trimester and simply never left.

➜ You adapt. You manage. You keep going.

Brittany Forrest knows this pattern well, and not just clinically. Before she became a Registered Massage Therapist, she spent seven years as a Personal Support Worker. She understands what it means to live with persistent discomfort and still have a full day ahead of you.

Her practice reflects that understanding.

She specializes in the conditions that tend to be undertreated and underestimated: tension headaches, TMJ dysfunction, sciatic and hip pain, and prenatal discomfort.

Her approach is precise and patient and she works to understand where the pain originates, not just where it shows up.

For mothers-to-be managing the physical demands of pregnancy, Brittany's prenatal work provides the kind of care that's both safe and genuinely restorative.

For anyone who has been quietly carrying more than their body should have to, she's the therapist who will actually listen.

This Mother's Day weekend, if you or someone you love has been putting this off: now is a good time.

📞 Call 780-455-7160 or schedule online on our website.

05/05/2026

Your nervous system has been in overdrive since January and all the extra snow in Edmonton hasn't helped. Mental Health Week is a good time to do something about it.

Most people think of mental health as something that happens above the neck. But the nervous system doesn't work that way. Stress lives in the body, in the chronically elevated shoulders, the jaw that clenches during meetings, the 2 a.m. wakeups that arrive without explanation.

When your stress response stays activated for weeks and months, cortisol stays elevated with it.

And sustained high cortisol has downstream effects: disrupted sleep, heightened pain sensitivity, low mood, immune suppression, and a body that never quite feels like it's recovered.

Research by Field et al. (2005) found massage therapy reduces cortisol by up to 31% while increasing serotonin by 28%. That's not a minor adjustment, it's a measurable shift in the body's stress chemistry.

Less cortisol means the nervous system gets a genuine signal that it's safe to downregulate.

That signal is harder to come by than it should be.

Mental Health Week is May 4–10.

This is a good week to remember that taking care of your mental health includes taking care of the body that carries it.

📞 Call 780-455-7160 or schedule online on our website.

04/30/2026

Tax deadline stress doesn't stay in your head. It moves into your jaw.

Most people filing today have been carrying a particular kind of tension for weeks — the low-grade, background hum of numbers, deadlines, and decisions that never fully turns off.

That kind of sustained mental pressure has a physical address, and it's smaller than you'd expect.

The temporomandibular joint — your jaw — is where a lot of people store financial stress without realizing it.

When cortisol rises under deadline pressure, the masseter and temporalis muscles contract. Teeth clench, often during sleep. The jaw braces. The temples tighten.

By morning, the headache that greets you has nothing to do with how well you slept.

👉 Research confirms massage therapy reduces cortisol levels by up to 31% (Field et al., 2005). That's not a small shift — lower cortisol means less involuntary muscle bracing, less load on the jaw joint, and fewer of the stress-triggered headaches that deadline season reliably produces.

TMJ massage works directly on the muscles of the jaw, temples, and upper neck — releasing the patterns that pressure builds and interrupting the tension-headache cycle at its source.

April 30 is almost over. Your taxes are filed or they aren't.
Either way, your jaw has earned some attention.

📞 Call 780-455-7160 or schedule online on our website.

Headaches, jaw tension and neck pain spike with summer stress. Delmy’s TMJ Massage targets tight muscles for lasting relief.

04/24/2026

We have been lied to.
And this is just getting stupid.

For weeks now, Edmonton has been dangling spring in front of us like a treat. A few warm days.

The snow pulls back.

You start thinking about patios and river valley walks and finally getting outside.

Then BAM, -6. Snow. Wind.

Repeat.

Your winter coat is back on. Your motivation is confused. Your body, which spent all of April getting psyched up to move, is staging a quiet protest.

We don't have a cure for Edmonton weather. Nobody does.

But if your neck and shoulders have been holding all this seasonal whiplash, we can help with that part.

😂 Book online on our website or call 780-455-7160.

Hang in there, Edmonton. Spring is coming. Probably.

04/20/2026

"I followed Brittany from one clinic to this one and it was such a good decision. She's awesome! I always feel so relaxed and pain free after I leave." - Vanessa Hennessey

Brittany knows what it takes to get results. Our clients follow her because she combines precision with compassion.

Deep tissue and therapeutic techniques ease tension where it lives.

If you're dealing with headaches, migraines, TMJ pain, or chronic issues like sciatica and postural strain, Brittany's customized approach targets the root cause.

She also supports pregnant clients with the safety and comfort they need.

Got Knots offers direct billing to most benefits plans.

Schedule with Brittany and experience the difference a skilled therapist makes.

Pain relief and relaxation aren't luxuries. They're what you deserve.

Call 780-455-7160 or visit the website to schedule online.

03/27/2026

Spring Should Feel Good Why Are You More Stressed?
Spring is supposed to bring relief. Longer days. Warmer weather. Winter ending. You should feel better.

Instead, you feel more stressed.

AND it's not actually getting warmer! Geesh. Hurry up spring!

Seasonal transitions create unexpected pressure. Your energy increased before your schedule adjusted. Now you're trying to do winter responsibilities plus spring activities with the same 24 hours.

➜ Spring cleaning.
➜ Yard work.
➜ Planning summer activities.
➜ Organizing.
➜ Social obligations increasing as weather improves.

Everyone wants your time because "it's finally nice out."

Your body held tension through winter. That tension hasn't released yet. Now you're adding spring stress on top of accumulated winter stress.

The result: feeling more overwhelmed in spring than you did in winter's darkest months.
Seasonal transitions require adjustment time.

Your nervous system needs to process what winter demanded before loading it with spring expectations. Your muscles need to release months of cold-induced tension before handling increased activity.

Skipping that transition creates problems.

Your body stays in winter mode while your mind pushes spring pace. The mismatch shows up as stress, fatigue, irritability, and physical pain.

👉 Massage therapy supports seasonal transition by releasing accumulated winter tension while helping your nervous system adjust to changing demands. Treatment gives your body permission to shift from winter survival to spring engagement.

Spring feels stressful when you skip the transition phase. Give your body time to adjust to what's changing.

📞 Call 780-455-7160 to support your seasonal transition.