When you think about therapeutic massage techniques, what ideas come to mind? These days massage therapy is being used more and more as a way to get healthy. Trained body workers offer many therapeutic massage techniques designed to get specific results. We include free cupping with every one hour massage! Some of us are referred to seek massage therapy by a physician or chiropractor, often in order to correct or ease a new or existing problem.
For example if you have recently been in a car accident and are being treated for whiplash. You may find yourself in the office a therapist trained to administer deep tissue massage. Or if you are on vacation and the resort you stay at offers spa services, chances are that you received a relaxation massage. Deep tissue is not a specific massage technique, rather it refers to a group of therapeutic massage techniques that reach deep into your muscles, and in some cases joints.
Usually the deep massage techniques will be applied with little or no creams or oils, and only to the source of pain, or the problem areas. It uses very deep pressure to specific muscles and joints. It address injuries and tension. It releases tension at these points and allows the body to release all over. This can be used to treat chronic pain. The pressure used varies depending on which type of tissue is being treated.
There are myofascial massage techniques that are applied with soft pressure as well but this deep tissue section is not about those. You might think of these tension points as knots, although they can be buried deep within a tissue or under other muscles.
Often you will notice immediate relief. Relaxation massage is not a specific massage technique either, rather it is a way to describe any therapeutic massage technique that relaxes you without getting painfully deep. Often these techniques use creams or oils, and are applied to large areas of the body, or to the entire body, as opposed to the deep tissue techniques, which tend to address small focus areas.
