Deep tissue massage is similar to Swedish massage, but it focuses on the deeper layers of the muscle and connective tissue in your body. By using firm pressure and slow, deliberate strokes, individuals who suffer from chronic pain, high blood pressure, muscle injury, muscle overuse, or tension tend to benefit the most from deep tissue massage

Benefits of Deep Tissue Massage Include:

• Treats Chronic Pain
• Helps Lower High Blood Pressure
• Reduces stress, anxiety, and muscle tension
• Breaks up Scar Tissue
• Improves Athletic Recovery and Performance 
• Reduces Arthritis Pain
• Many More

Swedish Massage is a type of relaxation massage and is a modality that comes to mind when most people think about types of massages. The primary goals of a Swedish massage is to relax the entire body by using long gliding strokes in the direction of blood returning to the heart. Swedish massage is beneficial for increasing the level of oxygen in the blood, decreasing the toxins in the body and overall improvement of circulation and flexibility while easing tension. 

Benefits of Swedish Massage:

• Pain management
• Increased blood flow
• Rehabilitation for muscle injuries 
• Increased flexibility
• Reduced stress
• Improved immune system

Craniosacral therapy is a gentle, hands-on therapy that releases tensions deep in the body to relieve pain and dysfunction and improve whole-body health and wellness. Craniosacral massage is a gentle noninvasive massage. That works with the bones of the head, neck, and sacrum and the cerebrospinal fluid that surrounds and protects the brain and spinal cord.  By restoring the natural position and alignment of the bones by using the body's own cranial rhythmic to help restore the central nervous system overall complementing the body's natural healing processes.

Craniosacral can help address:

• Migraines and Headaches
• Colic
• TMJ/TMD
• Stress and tension-related disorders
• Motor coordination impairments
• Infant and childhood disorders
• Brain and spinal cord injuries
• Fibromyalgia
• Central Nervous System disorders
• ADD/ADHD
• Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

kinesiology taping is a rehabilitative taping technique that is designed to facilitate the body’s natural healing process while providing support and stability to muscles and joints without restricting the body’s range of motion. It provides extended soft tissue manipulation, prolonging and enhancing the benefits of manual therapy. Kinesiology tape is latex-free, safe for populations ranging from pediatric to geriatric and can be worn for days at a time. It can even be worn in water. 

Benefits of Kinesiology Taping:

• ​Relaxes overactive muscles
• Strengthens inhibited muscles
• Facilitates lymphatic drainage
• Improves circulation
• Mobilizes fascia
• Supports joints, ligaments and tendons
• Reduces pain and inflammation

Cupping massage is an alternative therapeutic method that has been an ancient technique since around 1000 B.C. The cupping massage creates a vacuum on the skin, which helps dispel stagnation of blood and lymph, soften tight muscles, loosen adhesions and helps treat respiratory issues. 

Instrument-assisted soft tissue mobilization therapy (IASTM) is a therapy that is beneficial by breaking up fascial restrictions, scar tissue adhesions and helps detect chronic inflammation and fibrosis. This type of therapy has been known to help with many conditions such as tennis elbow, golfers elbow, sprains, strains and rotator cuff tendinosis.