Kim Skim Massage & Wellness

Kim Skim Massage & Wellness Kim also practices guasha scraping, vacuum cupping, & exercise instruction.

Kim uses deep, slow, broad massage strokes to help loosen fascial restrictions and release trigger points, while incorporating sports massage & neuromuscular therapy when needed.

02/11/2026

Friday the 13th: Don't let bad luck be your chronic neck pain.

I have openings at my home office in Louisville on Friday, Feb 13th from 2:30-6:30pm. Book now and banish that bad juju in your back.

Turn your unluckiest day into your luckiest appointment. https://kimskim.intakeq.com/booking

02/10/2026

Mountain bikers: if your neck is trashed after long rides, it's not just the riding position. It's what happens when poor thoracic mobility meets constant neck extension.

Riding requires you to look ahead while your torso is low and forward. Your head tilts back for long periods while your upper body stays flexed. This puts your neck into constant extension, forcing your suboccipital muscles and upper traps to work overtime holding that position.

Over time, this creates deep trigger points at the base of your skull and chronic tension through your upper traps. One ride? You recover. But accumulate this over months and years, and your neck is constantly tight.

Here's where it gets worse: if you also sit at a desk all day, you've likely got poor thoracic mobility. Your mid-back can't extend properly, so your neck hyperextends even more to compensate. Now your neck is doing work your thoracic spine should handle.

The solution isn't just massage for your neck. You need to release the neck tension, improve thoracic mobility so your mid-back can extend properly, and strengthen your mid-back muscles to support proper riding position.

As a mountain biker and massage therapist with 12 years of sports massage experience, I treat this pattern regularly.

Use the link (https://kimskim.intakeq.com/booking) to schedule your session, check out my free wellness events (www.kimskim.com/events), or leave me question in the comments.

02/04/2026

Cyclists, MTBers, and desk workers: if you're dealing with chronic lower back pain, there's a good chance your glutes have stopped working properly.

Here's what happens: Whether you spend hours in a saddle or sitting at a desk, that position puts your gluteal muscles in a lengthened, inactive state. Your glutes literally do nothing while you sit. They're stretched out and disengaged.

When muscles stay in this lengthened, unengaged position for hours daily over months and years, your nervous system develops what's called 'glute amnesia.' Your brain forgets the proper activation patterns for these muscles.

Now when you actually need your glutes to fire, for hip stabilization during cycling, walking, standing, or any movement requiring pelvic control, they don't turn on. They've gone dormant.

So your body finds compensations. Your lower back muscles overwork trying to stabilize your pelvis (a job your glutes should do). Your hip flexors stay chronically tight. Your hamstrings take over work the glutes should handle. All of this creates dysfunctional movement patterns.

The result? Chronic lower back pain, hip dysfunction, reduced cycling power output, altered gait mechanics, and compensation patterns that compound over time.

The solution isn't as simple as 'do more glute exercises.' If your glutes aren't firing, strengthening exercises don't work because you can't effectively train muscles that won't activate. It's like trying to build a house on a foundation that isn't there.

You need to address this systematically: release the overactive compensators (hip flexors, lower back, hamstrings), restore proper hip mobility, then retrain your nervous system to activate glutes through the correct firing patterns.

I'm both a MTBer who deals with this personally and a massage therapist with 12 years of sports massage experience specializing in reactivating dormant glutes and eliminating the compensation patterns they create.

If you're dealing with chronic lower back pain and suspect your glutes aren't doing their job, let's fix it properly. https://kimskim.intakeq.com/booking

02/04/2026

Heads up: I'll be out of town February 6th-10th catching some turns in Aspen (pray the snow is good!).

The office will be closed during this time, but I'll be back to regular hours starting Wednesday, February 11th. I'll also have extra hours Friday Feb 13th to get everyone in.

Need to book before I leave or for when I get back? https://kimskim.intakeq.com/booking

See you when I'm back! 🏂

Valentine's Day is in 12 days. Skip the chocolates this year (or do both?).Give your partner something that actually imp...
02/02/2026

Valentine's Day is in 12 days. Skip the chocolates this year (or do both?).

Give your partner something that actually improves their quality of life: relief from pain and tightness.

Whether it's back pain from their desk job, tight hips from cycling, neck tension from stress, or shoulder pain that's limiting their activities, therapeutic massage addresses the root cause and creates lasting change.

Gift certificates available on my website. I can email them directly to you or to your partner on Valentine's Day morning.
Easy to purchase through the link. Give them the gift of feeling better.

https://www.kimskim.com/gift-cards/purchase-gift-cards

01/28/2026

Calling all MTBers & Cyclists: your tight hip flexors from years of riding are creating problems beyond just your pedal stroke.

Every pedal stroke requires hip flexion. Thousands of repetitions over hundreds or thousands of miles mean your hip flexors (specifically your psoas and iliacus muscles) spend enormous amounts of time in a shortened position.

Over months and years, your body adapts to what you do most. Your hip flexors become chronically shortened and stay locked in that flexed position even when you're off the bike.

Now when you need full hip extension for walking, running, hiking, or any other activity, your body physically can't get there. Your hips stay slightly flexed, which completely changes your movement mechanics.

The consequence? Your lower back takes over stabilization work your hips should be doing. This creates chronic lower back pain, altered gait patterns, reduced power output on the bike, and eventually limits your ability to do activities beyond cycling.

Most cyclists try stretching their hip flexors with limited results because stretching alone can't release restrictions that have built up over years. You need manual therapy to address the deep attachments and fascial restrictions.

I'm a MTBer myself who understands these patterns from personal experience. I specialize in treating the overuse injuries that develop from cycling and other repetitive sports.

The solution: releasing hip flexor restrictions through therapeutic massage, restoring normal hip extension, and eliminating the lower back compensation pattern. This improves both your cycling performance and your quality of life off the bike.

Ready to address what years of cycling has done to your hip mechanics? https://kimskim.intakeq.com/booking

01/21/2026

Waking up with headaches every day? Your jaw is probably the culprit.

Stress causes jaw clenching and teeth grinding, usually at night when you're not even aware of it. This creates massive tension in your masseter and temporalis muscles that refers pain directly into your temples and behind your eyes.

That tension also travels backward into the suboccipital muscles at the base of your skull, creating that pressure headache feeling that won't go away no matter how much ibuprofen you take.

The solution isn't pain medication. It's releasing the jaw tension that's causing the headaches in the first place.

Intraoral massage releases the masseter muscle from inside your mouth where the deepest tension lives. Combined with work on your neck and suboccipitals, this breaks the headache cycle.

Most people notice significant reduction in headache frequency after just 2-3 sessions.

Ready to stop living with daily headaches? Schedule your session today: https://kimskim.intakeq.com/booking

01/14/2026

Shoulder pain during overhead movements? Before you blame your rotator cuff, look at what's happening in front.

Hours of overhead training creates massive tightness in your pec minor and anterior deltoid. This pulls your shoulder forward, closing down the space in your joint.
Now when you reach overhead, your rotator cuff has to work in a compromised position, causing impingement and pain.

The fix isn't rest. It's releasing the anterior structures that are pulling you out of alignment, restoring scapular mobility, and strengthening your posterior shoulder to create balance.
Sports massage combined with targeted corrective work resolves this pattern so you can train pain-free.

Ready to get back to full performance? Schedule your assessment or join my 1st Wednesday community group.

https://kimskim.intakeq.com/booking

01/07/2026

Does your lower back ache constantly from sitting at your desk all day? Here's what's actually happening to your body.

When you sit for hours, your pelvis tilts backward, putting your lumbar spine into constant flexion. This overstretches your erector spinae muscles while your quadratus lumborum (QL) stays locked up trying to stabilize everything. Add in hip flexors that get shorter and tighter from sitting, and you've created a pain pattern that won't resolve on its own.

The problem? These muscles become both overstretched AND overworked at the same time. That's why stretching alone doesn't fix it, and why the pain keeps coming back.

The solution is addressing all the factors: releasing the hip flexor restrictions that are pulling on your pelvis, working on the deep QL and erector tension, and retraining your body to maintain proper pelvic position throughout the day.

With 12 years of experience treating pain patterns, I specialize in breaking these patterns for good. Therapeutic massage combined with targeted corrective exercises eliminates the pain and prevents it from returning.

If this sounds like your daily reality, let's create a treatment plan that actually works.

https://kimskim.intakeq.com/booking

01/02/2026

What if 2026 was the year you finally stopped living with chronic pain? Every January brings resolutions about fitness, nutrition, and wellness. But here's what most people miss: if you're dealing with chronic neck pain, back pain, or shoulder tension, those other goals become nearly impossible to achieve. You can't maintain a consistent workout routine when your back constantly flares up. You can't get quality sleep when neck pain wakes you up at night. You can't focus on healthy habits when you're spending energy just managing discomfort throughout the day. The problem is that chronic pain doesn't resolve on its own. Those trigger points in your upper traps, the restrictions in your hip flexors, the tension in your QL, they've been developing over months or years of compensation patterns. Stretching might give you 20 minutes of relief. Foam rolling might help temporarily. But neither addresses the root cause of why those patterns exist. Real resolution requires releasing the accumulated restrictions through therapeutic massage, then retraining proper movement patterns through corrective exercises. That combination breaks the pain cycle instead of just managing symptoms. With 12 years of experience treating chronic pain, I've helped hundreds of people finally eliminate pain they'd been living with for years. This can be your pain-free year. But it requires committing to actually fixing the problem instead of just working around it. Ready to make 2026 different? https://kimskim.intakeq.com/booking

Happy New Year!I hope everyone is starting their years off strong! 🚵🏽‍♀️
01/01/2026

Happy New Year!

I hope everyone is starting their years off strong! 🚵🏽‍♀️

Christmas on the trails > Christmas on the couch.No snow meant we traded snowboards for mountain bikes this year. Spent ...
12/29/2025

Christmas on the trails > Christmas on the couch.

No snow meant we traded snowboards for mountain bikes this year. Spent Christmas Eve and Christmas Day riding Buff Creek, and I'm not mad about it.

See you out on the trails in 2026 (and hopefully the slopes too)! 🎄🚵🏽‍♀️

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