Koivu Massage & Wellness

08/13/2025

🇫🇮What a beautiful start to our first full day in Helsinki!🇫🇮

08/09/2025

✨And it’s officially vacation time for this massage therapist! I’m off to Finland to meet some family! 🇫🇮 I’ll be out of the office August 10-22.✨

08/05/2025

🇮🇹Here’s just one of the gift baskets you could win at Italian Fest this Saturday, August 9th!🇮🇹

07/31/2025

My Alma Mater! I chose to attend Blue Sky School of Professional Massage & Therapeutic Bodywork because of their intensive and thorough approach of training students.

Did you know?
To become a Licensed Massage Therapist in Wisconsin, you need at least 125 clock hours of Anatomy, Physiology, Pathology, and Kinesiology.

At Blue Sky, we don’t stop at “just enough.”
Our students get 192 clock hours—because we believe in going above and beyond the bare bones. (See what we did there? 😏)

They don’t just know the body...
They know it inside, outside, upside down, and backwards.

Because when you’re working with muscles, joints, and fascia—guessing isn’t a good strategy.

Choose education that digs deeper.

07/29/2025

✨Check out the new rollerblade wheels on my partner in crime! A smoother and quieter ride, especially appreciated during a relaxation massage. It’s those little things that can make a difference.✨

07/24/2025

✨Trigger Point Thursday: Adductor Hallucis✨
Pain from the adductor hallucis refers into the space between the balls of the foot.

07/21/2025

✨Muscle of the Week: Adductor Hallucis (Hallucis = big toe)✨

What does it do? Adduction, or pulls the big toe towards the center of the foot, flexion of the big toe, supports transverse arch of foot

What are its attachments?
Oblique head - lateral cuneiform bone, cuboid bone, bases of 2nd - 4th metatarsal bones, tendon of peroneus (fibularis) longus

Transverse head - plantar metatarsophalangeal ligaments of 3rd - 5th toes, deep transverse metatarsal ligaments of 3rd - 5th toes

Insertion Lateral aspect of base of proximal phalanx of hallux

07/17/2025

✨I had a wonderful experience learning Introduction to Lymph Drainage Massage and Thai Foot Massage from Susan Cossette.✨

07/09/2025

✨New July Hours✨

I’m back in the dance studio teaching the summer session, so my July office hours have shifted a bit.

07/08/2025

Check out what our friends over at The Real Heal 906 are doing!

It's our turn to showcase the raffle baskets for The Long Riders. This group of awesome humans is raising money for prevention programming. Feel free to stop in and purchase a raffle ticket! Come on in and check them out! 1 ticket=$5, 5 tickets=$20 or 30 tickets =$100!

07/04/2025

07/01/2025

So many of my clients have headaches and/or migraine, so I wanted to share the books that helped me to better understand this condition and what actions I could take. I’ve had classic headache, tension headaches, and migraine with and without aura since my 20’s. About a year and a half ago, I started experiencing bouts of horrible dizziness, ringing in the ear, ear fullness, positional vertigo, sinus issues, visual aura without head pain, nausea, and sound and light sensitivity. I was finally diagnosed with vestibular migraine, which is a migraine where one experiences vestibular dysfunction, but not necessarily head pain. I hope these resources can help in supporting your way to better understand and control your headache/migraine, which is possible.

The Dizzy Cook, Alicia Wolfe
(Great Website: thedizzycook.com)

Victory Over Vestibular Migraine, Dr. Shin Beh

Heal Your Headache, Dr. David Bucholz