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Types of Massage

There are a variety of different styles, types and techniques of bodywork that I utilize in my therapies.

  • Inside/Out Bodywork
  • Trigger Point

  • Reflexology




Inside/Out Functional Bodywork

Inside/Out Functional Bodywork is used to help people understand themselves better through range of motion and functional body movement. Guiding clients with how their body is designed to move and overcoming fears of those movements to heal their body and ultimatly feel better.



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.[2]

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