07/20/2024
Massage Therapist 'Rene' Berard, L.M.T.
Rene provides professional, relaxing therapeutic massage services to his clients with a variety of benefits. Some of the more common benefits his patients experience is:
• reduced pain
• reduced stiffness and motion limitations
• reduced muscular and emotional stress.
• increased flexibility
• increased blood flow
• enhanced soft tissue healing.
We invite you to contact him today and experience for yourself the benefits of natural, therapeutic massage therapy.
In health and relaxation,
'Rene' Berard, L.M.T.
207 632 6699
Rene has been practicing massage for over 20 years. He received his certification from The Massage School, Easthampton, MA (formally the Amherst School of Massage). Rene is also a certified yoga instructor and has received ongoing mentoring with master massage and yoga therapists. Rene has created a unique blend of traditional massage techniques with therapeutic yoga stretches to offer you a comprehensive healing experience. Rene also recently completed his Medical Massage Certification and is a fully Licensed Massage Therapist in Colorado.
Call or text to schedule your appointment (207) 632-6699
Pricing and Types of Massage available from Rene
Current Pricing:
60 min Massage $85
90 min Massage $135
Types of Massage available:
Deep Tissue Massage
Deep Tissue massage is designed to relieve severe tension in the muscle and the connective tissue or fascia. This type of massage focuses on the muscles located below the surface of the top muscles. Deep tissue massage is often recommended for individuals who experience consistent pain, are involved in heavy physical activity, such as athletes, and patients who have sustained physical injury. It is also not uncommon for receivers of Deep Tissue Massage to have their pain replaced with a new muscle ache for a day or two. Deep tissue work varies greatly. What one calls deep tissue another will call light. When receiving deep tissue work it is important to communicate what you are feeling.
Medical Massage
Medical massage is outcome-based massage, primarily the application of a specific treatment targeted to the specific problem(s) a patient presents with a diagnosis. Medical Massage is performed with the intent of improving conditions or pathologies that have been diagnosed by a physician. It is generally considered part of integrative medicine and can be used alongside conventional medical treatment to enhance patient recovery and well-being.
Sports Massage
Sports massage is a form of Swedish massage that is delivered to athletes. Most commonly, sports massage focuses on increasing blood and lymphatic fluid flow, reducing and eliminating pain as well as tender trigger points, and increasing range of motion of the affected area. Sports massages can be broken into 4 distinct types - the pre-event sports massage, the post-event sports massage, the restorative sports massage and the rehabilitative sports massage. As the names indicate, each type of sports massage has a different focus for the athlete as they are delivered at different times during their training and performance schedule.
Stone Massage
A stone massage uses cold or water-heated stones to apply pressure and heat to the body. Stones coated in oil can also be used by the therapist delivering various massaging strokes. The hot stones used are commonly river stones which over time, have become extremely polished and smooth. As the stones are placed along the recipient's back, they help to retain heat which then deeply penetrates into the muscles, releasing tension.
Swedish Massage
Swedish massage uses five styles of long, flowing strokes to massage. The five basic strokes are effleurage (sliding or gliding), petrissage (kneading), tapotement (rhythmic tapping), friction (cross fiber) and vibration/shaking. Swedish massage has shown to be helpful in reducing pain, joint stiffness, and improving function in patients with osteoarthritis of the knee over a period of eight weeks. It has also been shown to be helpful in individuals with poor circulation. The development of Swedish massage is credited to Per Henrik Ling, though the Dutch practitioner Johan Georg Mezger adopted the French names to denote the basic strokes. The term "Swedish" massage is not really known in the country of Sweden, where it is called "classic massage".
Trigger Point Therapy
Trigger points or trigger sites are described as hyperirritable spots in skeletal muscle that are associated with palpable nodules in taut bands of muscle fibers. Trigger point practitioners believe that palpable nodules are small contraction knots[ambiguous] and a common cause of pain. Compression of a trigger point may elicit local tenderness, referred pain, or local twitch response. The local twitch response is not the same as a muscle spasm. This is because a muscle spasm refers to the entire muscle entirely contracting whereas the local twitch response also refers to the entire muscle but only involves a small twitch, no contraction. The trigger point model states that unexplained pain frequently radiates from these points of local tenderness to broader areas, sometimes distant from the trigger point itself. Practitioners claim to have identified reliable referred pain patterns, allowing practitioners to associate pain in one location with trigger points elsewhere.
Benefits of Massage
Therapeutic massage provides a number of health and wellness related benefits. These benefits are delivered in a natural and safe non-invasive method and thus, do not carry the harmful side effects associated with prescribed medications and the many invasive medical procedures used today.
Therapeutic massage is wonderful at enhancing and increasing a number of beneficial processes and functions within the human body.
• Massage enhances ones state of well being
• Massage enhances soft tissue healing
• Massage increases flexibility & range of motion
• Massage increases muscle tone
• Massage increases blood flow
• Massage increases dopamine & serotonin levels
• Massage increases and improves lymphatic fluid flow & drainage
• Massage induces relaxation
• Massage stimulates the immune system
Similarly, therapeutic massage is extremely effective at reducing and often eliminating a number of uncomfortable and restrictive symptoms and conditions.
• Massage reduces constipation
• Massage reduces cortisol levels
• Massage reduces depression
• Massage reduces emotional stress
• Massage reduces joint stiffness
• Massage reduces muscular tension
• Massage reduces pain
• Massage reduces scar tissue formation
• Massage reduces soft tissue knots and trigger points
