Denise's Massage Therapy

12/25/2024

Merry Christmas to all my Clients!

12/14/2020

Thought I should put my BOB Award Certificate on my page.

11/28/2020

11/28/2020

I am so excited to be a BOB award Winner for the Best Massage!!
I want to thank everyone who voted for me!!

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06/23/2020

QUIT SMOKING!!

Laser Therapy for Smoking Cessation

How it Works?
* Aculaser probe is used to do acupuncture points to stimulate the points
* Reduces withdrawal symptoms
* Decreases desire to smoke

Generally 1 visit is required to remove the addiction. However, to ensure long-term results, it is recommended attending a second treatment 2 days later and a third treatment 2 to 4 weeks later.

Although results are not guarantees, success rates are very high.
More than half of patients completing the program will quit smoking and be on their way to Improved Health

Candidates for this program:
* 100% desire to quit
* You are not pregnant
* no history of cancer in the past 5 years

05/18/2020

Who doesn't want Massage Therapy!!

04/14/2020

Myofascial Release (MFR)

Myofascial is working the Fascia layer of the body.

*Myofascial release (MFR) therapy focuses on releasing muscular shortness and tightness. There are a number of conditions and symptoms that myofascial release therapy addresses.

*Many patients seek myofascial treatment after losing flexibility or function following an injury or if experiencing ongoing back, shoulder, hip, or virtually pain in any area containing soft tissue. Patient symptoms usually include:

*Tightness of the tissues that restricts motion or pulls the body out of alignment, causing individuals to favor and overuse one hip or shoulder, for example
A sense of excessive pressure on muscles or joints that produces pain
Pain in any part or parts of the body, including headache or back pain.
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*Myofascial Release is a safe and very effective hands-on technique that involves applying gentle sustained pressure into the Myofascial connective tissue restrictions to eliminate pain and restore motion.

*Fascia is a sheet of connective tissue covering or binding together body structures (such as muscles). The fascia also gives your body it's structural form or shape, surrounding all the muscles,organs,and bones.

*We release restrictions in the fascia which can change not only what a person looks like (postural),but how they feel, and move,

04/14/2020

Spinal Touch/Spinal Alignment

*Spinal Touch is a treatment that deals with stress and it's effects on the body, fatigue poisons, and relieving pain. This treatment deals with relaxing the muscles.
*Strain is a tense(taut), or unrelaxed muscle tissue.
*When muscle is unable to relax after use, the bloodis unable to pick up the fatigue poisons. These poisons are then stored in the tissue. When these poisons accumulate in the muscles they cause a strained condition. If left in this strained condition too long, will cause the body to distort. As the bodies distortion increases,exhaustion results. When the body becomes completely exhausted it will die,
*Spinal touch is an unprecedented spinal correction, with absolutely no pain to the client.
*Deals with health stress and strain by relaxing those muscles that have been pushed beyond their "elastic limits" and have become strained.

03/31/2020

Cranial-Sacral Therapy

What is Cranial/Sacral?

* Acknowledges the human body's innate ability to heal itself. This therapy takes the form of gentle hands on work, where the practitioner deeply appreciates and facilitates this self- healing and self-balancing process. The therapist works with and encourages the health of the system to be expressed regardless of the duration or symptomology.
* Gentle hands-on modality that works with your body's innate ability to heal itself.
* Non-invasively following your body's lead, the therapist allows your inner knowledge to search for and follow the path of healing most appropriate for you!
* Within the human body there is a knowledge, a wisdom that knows exactly what that particular body needs to maintain or regain optimum health,
* The goal is to witness the highest potentials of the human system expressing itself.

03/31/2020

Laser Therapy (muscles,tendons,etc)

What is Laser Therapy?

*Cold lasers are sometimes called Low Level Lasers (LLL) or soft lasers.
* Theralase Cold Laser works by supplying energy to the body in the form of billions of photons of Light!

* The body absorbs this laser light on a cellular level, and transforms it into chemical energy, which the body uses to create it's own tissue repair.

* The biostimulating effect of Laser Therapy causes a decrease in Inflammation, and Pain and an increase of tissue regeneration and healing!

* These wavelengths technology activates 3 known cellular paths:
1. Adenosine Triphosphate (ATP) Pathway:
Accelerates Healing
2. Nitric Oxide (NO) Pathway:
Reduces Inflammation
3. Lipid Absorption Pathway:
Decreases Pain

What Laser Benefits

*Cold Laser treatment offers a non-intrusive option

*Cold lasers tend to be commonly utilized for treatment associated with:

- Acute and chronic joint pain,
-Tendon strains,
- Muscle strain,
- Soft tissue injuries,
- Tendonitis,
- Arthritis,
-Tennis elbow,
- Lower Back soreness ( stenosis, arthritis, etc)
- Bursitis,(shoulder, hip)
- Carpal Tunnel Syndrome,
- Fibromyalgia,
- Knee pain
- Migraines
- Neck pain
- Shoulder pain (rotoator cuff)
- MANY MANY MORE AREAS

Cold Lasers usually applied in 2 specific methods.

* One is in fact targeting acupuncture trigger points (analogous to acupuncture however minus the needles)
* One is actually by using wide coverage of deep tissue with laser photons in order to spark changes within the tissue.

Cold Laser Safe

* The therapy is definitely simple to implement, very safe, non-toxic, non-invasive, zero side effects or discomfort, cost effective with regard to both the practitioner and patient, particularly effective in treating ailments (more than 90% efficacy), superior alternative to pain killers, reduces the need regarding surgery, and often will work synergistically along with other modalities

Eliminates Pain

* Cold Laser technology effectively removes the pain signal at the source by rebalancing the sodium potassium pathway.
* Pain results when a stimulus causes action potentials to rapidly propagate along a nerve cell. Actions potentials are mostly due to an influx of sodium ions into the nerve cell and potassium ions out of the cell, altering the electrical potential across the membrane.


Reduces Inflammation

* The inner lining of blood vessels uses NO to signal the surrounding smooth muscle to relax, thus resulting in vasodilation and increased blood flow (and thereby, increased oxygen supply) to the area.
* This ultimately results in decreased inflammation and edema.

Furthermore, increasing blood flow to injured tissue will accelerate the body’s natural healing process, deliver nutrient-rich blood and oxygen to the injury site and eliminate toxins or waste by-products created during the inflammatory process.

Accelerates Healing

* Cold Laser ( Theralase® ) stimulates the mitochondria of the cell to produce more Adenosine Triphosphate (ATP or basic cell energy) to accelerate tissue repair.

Laser light is absorbed in the mitochondria of the cell, specifically by cytochrome c oxidase within the respiratory chain, leading to the release of ATP (energy) and nitric oxide (NO) and the modulation of reactive oxygen species (ROS). Mitochondria in stressed or ischemic tissues produce nitric oxide (mtNO) that binds to cytochrome c oxidase competitively displacing oxygen and leading to oxidative stress and reduced ATP production. Light, when applied to injuries, is absorbed by cytochrome c oxidase displacing mitochondrial NO and thereby reducing oxidative stress and increasing ATP production. From there, a cascade of downstream metabolic effects lead to a reduction in inflammatory markers and accelerate tissue repair.

Some of the above copyright notes are from the Theralase® company's website.

To be effective, laser therapy devices must:

(a) generate light of the correct wavelength

(b) pe*****te tissue to the required depth

(c) deliver the required dose of light to the tissue of interest

(d) stimulate a biological response

However, every patient is different. Each treatment needs to be customized for every patient to ensure that they are receiving the optimal dosage of laser energy.

03/29/2020

What is Bowen/NST?

Bowen is a holistic remedial body technique that works on the soft connective tissue (fascia) of the body. Bowen therapy can be used to treat musculoskeletal or related neurological problems including acute sports injuries and chronic or organic conditions. ... Bowen therapy is performed on the superficial and deep fascia

Neurostructural Integration Technique (NST) is a highly skilled and well-developed soft tissue therapy that essentially hits the reset button on the human body and allows a window of opportunity for the body to heal. It can offer fast and effective pain relief combined with increased energy levels and better health.

Tom Bowen was a man who had a great ability to accurately observe the often very subtle imbalances in the body and could therefore start the process of correcting these very quickly. Once he had started the process with a few well-chosen moves, he would leave the client alone in the treatment room before returning some minutes later to check how the body had responded and determine what more, if anything, needed to be done.

This element of allowing the body to rest for a few minutes initiates the process of repair and is important. The length of the breaks will vary from client to client and with different procedures, but on average we will leave clients for around two minutes in between each set of moves. The implications for these breaks become more apparent for experienced practitioners, but at the start of training many people find this a very difficult concept.

The breaks are probably one of the least understood parts of Bowen and yet it is during the breaks that the work starts to take effect and changes are implemented. The most fundamental principle of Bowen is that it is the client that is doing the work, not the therapist, and for this to happen the body needs time and to be left alone.

Here is a link to knowledge about Tom Bowen to which this treatment came from

http://bowendirectory.com/?p=4&ID=189

Bowen Therapy Technique - Practitioners, Schools & Training

03/29/2020

FST (Fascial Stretch Therapy) Stretch to Win

How it can change your life!

* New method of fast, effective & long lasting manual therapy.
* One-of-a-kind assisted mobility, stretching & flexibility method.

FST is like Massage,Yoga,and Pilates!*

What is FST?

*Fascial Stretch Therapy is a form of assisted stretching!
* Targets fascial connective tissue and joint capsules to increase range of motion and stability, improve performance, and reduce pain.
* In addition, it’s a pain-free method that is great for injury prevention and rehabilitation!
* It improves mobility of your nerves, and flexibility of your muscles, fascia, joints, which makes up all connective tissue.
* The Client/Patient is on a treatment table, the therapist will help stabilize your body as you are gently helped into specific stretches.

What is Fascia?

Fascia is the connective tissue system of the body that pe*****tes through and wraps around muscles, nerves,organs, bones and joints.and just about everything else in your body.
Restricted fascia and joint capsules can lead to conditions such as osteoarthritis, painful movement, increased muscle tightness, strains, tendon injuries, headaches, scar tissue formation, decreased blood flow and reduced energy levels.

What are the benefits of FST

What makes this therapy different from other flexibility programs is that each stretch begins with a light traction of the joint being treated. This allows for a deeper stretch by creating more space in joint. This is an excellent treatment choice for those wanting to improve flexibility and mobility, recover from training, and prevent injury.

Other benefits:

-Improved posture & muscle function
-Improved sport specific performance
-Increase muscular strength and endurance
-Reduce muscle tension and risk of injury
-Increase balance and symmetry of the body
-Reduce muscular soreness and fatigue
-Help treat symptoms associated with facet joint dysfunctions

Who Benefits:

-People of all ages!
-Fascial Stretch Therapy has been popular with athletes such as professional football, hockey, basketball players, and many other sports,
-Anyone needing more flexibility such as office workers, manual labour, and just generally stiff individuals.

Fascial Stretch Therapy is also a very powerful therapy that can be used to treat many conditions. Such as: facet joint dysfunctions, tight hips, rotator cuff injuries, muscle strains, chronic headaches, knee tracking issues, plantar fasciitis, and pinched nerves.
Many other conditions.

*Fascial Stretch Therapy is a great addition to your current wellness program! Combining therapies such as massage Therapy with FST supports your overall wellness and speeds up the process of getting the results you crave.