Infinite Flow Massage and Bodyworks

11/25/2025

Booking now for the holidays 🌲🌲🌲Schedule your appointment today!

10/02/2025

The R.I.C.E. method—Rest, Ice, Compression, Elevation—was widely promoted for decades as the standard approach for acute injuries like sprains and strains. However, you’re absolutely right: its original creator, Dr. Gabe Mirkin, officially retracted the recommendation in 2016, acknowledging that icing and excessive rest can actually delay healing by suppressing the body’s natural inflammatory processes.
So Why Is It Still Being Recommended?

There are a few key reasons:

1. Medical and Athletic Protocols Lag Behind Research

Healthcare practices often take years—or even decades—to catch up to updated science. Many coaches, trainers, and even doctors were trained with R.I.C.E. and simply continue teaching it out of habit.

2. Simplicity and Familiarity

R.I.C.E. is easy to remember and easy to prescribe, so it persists as a default—even when it’s not optimal.

3. Ice Does Help With Pain—But That’s Not Healing

Cold reduces pain and swelling temporarily, so people think it’s helping recovery. In reality, reducing inflammation too much interferes with the signaling needed for tissue repair.

06/24/2025

Client testimonial 🩷💛

06/03/2025

Today was the day. Celebrating two years!! 🩷💛💝

05/17/2025

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01/15/2025

Glow up your skin with a coconut vanilla body scrub or coffee sugar body scrub or soften up just hands and feet 🦶🏻🦶🏼🦶🏽🦶🏾🦶🏿🫶🏼

07/22/2024

This is why I do what I do…because I know that it makes a difference. Schedule an appointment and see what massage can do for you.

BAYLOR UNIVERSITY PUBLISHES LARGEST STUDY EVER ON MASSAGE THERAPY USE

July 2024

"Many people receive massage therapy and for many reasons. But according to a new study – the largest and most comprehensive ever conducted on the subject – the prevalence of visits to massage therapists is higher than one might have imagined and the reasons may be surprising."

“What our study shows is that it’s probably not helpful any longer to label massage as an ‘alternative’ therapy, with all of the marginality that the term conveys.”

“Licensed massage therapists ought to be respected as mainstream practitioners, whose profession provides a therapeutic approach not just to address pain and functional challenges but to foster wellness and overall well-being, physical and emotional.

Everyone can benefit from working with a skilled massage therapist. They’re the hidden gems in the healthcare system.” - Jeff Levin, Ph.D., M.P.H., University Professor of Epidemiology and Population Health. (Robert Rogers/Baylor University)

Study Link: Journal of Science & Healing
Prevalence & Determinants of Massage Therapy Use in the US
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1550830724000958

07/02/2024

It’s been a year! Whew! What started out as a few massages here and there has now become my full time job! I’m so grateful 🩷for all of my amazing clients and for all those who have helped me along this amazing journey. Welcome to Infinite Flow Massage and Bodyworks! ☀️