Neuromuscular Massage

During your first neuromuscular massage session, the massage therapist will work with your body to determine the source of your pain. Lower and upper back discomfort, hip pain, temporomandibular joint pain, decreased blood flow, and even carpal tunnel syndrome are all common conditions treated with this form of massage treatment.

Whiplash, postural distortion and nerve compression can all be relieved by neuromuscular massage. Even if you don't have any of these conditions, this type of massage will help you reduce stress and accumulated tension in your body.

Following an injury, your body narrows the blood vessels that supply that location. This is done to avoid bruising. However, this also causes the muscles surrounding the injury to become very tight.

If this accumulated tension is not released, toxins will build up in the damaged region, increasing nerve sensitivity and causing pain. Overly tight muscles might result in additional problems such as damaged tissue or pinched nerves.

Neuromuscular massage reaches the source of the injury and reduces muscular tension, allowing proper blood flow to return to the area and your muscles to restore normal function.

This type of massage therapy should be unpleasant but not painful. A numerical scale of pain sensation from 1 to 10 is employed to express discomfort to the therapist.

Nonetheless, in the first session, the patient is informed that overly sensitive tissues and trigger points can produce pain in a very precise area of a muscle, even if it feels ok from a fraction of an inch away. As a result, the therapist may glide over a painful "hot spot" while inspecting or treating a muscle. Because treating that location is crucial to addressing the issue, it will be handled carefully and slowly in subsequent approaches.

You should also be aware that pain in soft tissue is an indicator of that tissue's dysfunction. The muscle is healthy if it does not cause pain.

Neuromuscular Therapy treatments aim to deactivate trigger points, retrain contracted muscle tissue, address myofascial holding patterns, and ultimately reduce pain. The majority of these patterns have either formed over time or are a direct result of body trauma and injury.

As a result, a series of weekly sessions is recommended so that the tissue learns to "remember" the new method of functional movement - one with less discomfort and greater mobility. Patients should have a session once a week for 3-4 weeks, after which they should re-evaluate their progress.