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Therapeutic Massage Helps With...
Chronic Pain, Headaches, Lower Back Pain, Upper Back,
Neck Pain, Fibromyalgia, Stress & Tension Relief,
Migraines, TMJ, Relaxation & Calmness, Depression,
Circulation, Accident Rehabilitation, Post-Op Rehab,
High Blood Pressure, Range of Motion, Immune System,
Insomnia, Sports Injury, Poor Posture, Allergies,
Anxiety, Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, Joint Injury,
Autism,
Elderly/Geriatric People, Homebound,
Pediatric Clients,
Sciatica,
Oncology Patients.
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Massage Abstracts / Studies
Index of Scientific Studies proving the efficacy
and effectiveness of Therapeutic Massage
as a healing modality.
Massage Debunkers Debunked!
Some skeptics attempt to debunk
Massage Therapy as a effective treatment.
Here such arguments are addressed.
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In-Home Massage Services in NJ & NYC: Massage Modalities Offered
Whether It's 'In-Home Massage'
Or On-Site Mobile Massage At Another Location,
All Therapeutic Modalities Offered Are Always Available To Clients at the SAME PRICE.*
*With the sole exception of Hot Stone Massage, which does incur an additional fee.
What sets Mountainside On-Site Massage Therapy™ apart is our level of sincerity and dedication to the art and science of Therapeutic Massage, knowing that Evidence-based Massage Therapy studies support anecdotal accounts that massage Therapy can help with a wide range of issues. Owned and operated by Massage Therapists, we only hire therapists that are highly skilled, intuitive, knowledgeable, and compassionate.
We are experienced Massage Therapists, committed to
helping others. During a session of Therapeutic Massage, we will
concentrate on areas that require more time, rather than
just doing a 'standard' routine that's identical for all clients.
We listen to your feedback; it's YOUR session, after all. For us, it's about trying to earn a living helping others, not finding a niche to focus a startup in because it seems lucrative!
Our approach is
strictly Evidence-Based Therapeutic Massage. We do a full Health Intake, as required, and consider each client's health issues individually. We do also offer modalities that are not considered valid and/or tested within the present realm of scientific inquiry, such as energy work and Reiki. This is because such modalities have been helpful to many clients, even if the modality's efficacy is not yet supported by scientific study, or if the mechanism of action is unknown or may differ from the means proposed.
SUPER stress-relieving focused scalp, neck,
shoulders, and facial massage sessions also available. Sessions may be booked for one hour, 90 minutes, 2 hours, or longer.
Whether
working together doing 4-Hand Therapeutic Massage at a hotel, or working
side-by-side doing In Home Couples Massage or a Sweet 16 Event Massage, our Massage Therapists draw upon
a number of useful, time-tested techniques and styles from around the world. Likewise, it doesn't matter whether we
are performing a Couples Massage, an In Home Massage, a Corporate Massage, or an Event Massage, any and all
techniques and modalities are ALWAYS available to the client.
New scientific studies appear weekly, authored by researchers attempting to find out more about Massage Therapy, a practice spanning back into dark antiquity. It appears that in time, more and more studies will confirm what
humanity has intuitively known from the beginning of time: Massage helps.
Unlike others, Mountainside On-Site Massage Therapy charges
one price for treatment, whether it's an hour of deep
tissue, an hour of Shiatsu, or an hour of deep tissue, Shiatsu, and Trigger Point Therapy combined. Note how our competitors
suggest that they also do individualized sessions. How can this be so when they charge different rates for different
sorts of massage therapy? How would they price the third type of hourly session mentioned above? (The truth is, it sounds good
to say that, and some are more concerned with sounding good than being truthful.)
A session of Corporate or Event Chair Massage does not require the client to disrobe or lie in a prone or supine position on a massage table, rather s/he sits upright, leaning forward, almost like riding on a motorcycle. For Mountainside On-Site Massage Therapy's™ In-Home Massage service, that's usually performed with the client draped under a sheet, either
fully clothed, unclothed, or wearing undergarments only, lying on a portable massage table.
Most clients opt to wear undergarments only, and have the therapist use
massage oil
during the session. (We use hypo-allergenic Jojoba oil, Almond Oil, Sesame Oil, Coconut Oil, Organic baby Lotion, or other high quality oils.) The oil results in a different sort of massage,
as the therapist is able to perform gliding motions with greater ease. Additionally, aromatherapy Certified Organic
essential oils may be added to the carrier oil, if the client wishes, and the therapist uses Essential Oils. (see Aromatherapy Massage - click to link)
During a typical In Home Massage, as well as a Hotel Massage, the part
of the body being worked on is the only part remaining uncovered. The rest of the person remains draped at all times.
In contrast, sessions at parties, or others situations where clients often receive shorter duration massage such as Workplace
Massage,
are performed with clients undraped but fully clothed and consequently, without any
massage oil (such oils easily ruin clothing).
We do not do sessions with unclothed, undraped clients. (This is New Jersey, not Europe.)
Specializing
in Neck & Back Pain, Stress & Tension Relief, Migraines
& Headaches, Athletic Training, TMJ, Relaxation & Calmness,
Sports Injury, Fibromyalgia, Myofascial Pain Syndrome, Chronic
Pain Relief
Unless
a client specifically requests that a massage be performed in a certain
manner or utilizing a certain technique, a typical session will
often include elements derived from all of different modalities
cited below:
What is Shiatsu?
Shiatsu is a massage technique imported from Japan, where it has been practiced
as a traditional hands-on therapy for countless generations. Modern adaptations
incorporate concepts derived from Chinese Medicine, as well as
current medical research and theory. This modality is an entire form of treatment, in and of itself.
"Shiatsu
technique refers to the use of fingers and palm of one's hand
to apply pressure to particular sections on the surface of the
body for the purpose of correcting the imbalances of the body,
and for maintaining and promoting health. It is also a method
contributing to the healing of specific illnesses."
—December
1957: Statement made by the medical department of the Ministry
of Welfare of Japan. (Currently known as the 'Ministry of Health,
Labor and Welfare').
The concept
of 'Diagnosis and Therapy Combined" is key in Shiatsu, meaning
that therapy may commence without a formal or previous diagnosis,
and that the practitioner may learn in what manner the client
may best be helped, by paying careful attention to tightness and
other feedback from the client's muscles, fascia, joints, tendons,
and ligaments. The client is treated as a whole, a concept now
well established even within Western Medicine.
What is Swedish
Massage? The Swedish Massage technique,
developed in the eighteenth
century by Per Henrik Ling, a Swedish doctor,
involves using long, fluid movement, which many clients find relaxing
and deeply comforting. Swedish
massage aims to increase the flow of blood and lymph, releasing
trapped toxins in muscles, and rejuvenating the muscle by bringing
in fresh oxygen with increased circulation. This helps eliminate
lactic acid and other wastes from muscles, speeding recovery from
workouts and stress. The technique also involves stretching the
tendons, muscles, and ligaments.
There are six basic strokes: friction, tapotement, compression,
vibration, effleurage (French: 'to skim') , petrissage (French:
to knead) Clinical studies have proven Swedish Massage to be effective
in helping to reduce pain and joint stiffness, and improve function
in clients suffering from these symptoms.
Many derivative systems have been developed based on Swedish Massage. Pressure may be light or firm; many people seek 'firm' Swedish, and instead mistakenly refer to it as Deep Tissue Massage.
What is Deep
Tissue Massage? Deep tissue work involves utilizing
more pressure, and working the muscles deeper, as well as working deeper muscles under other muscle groups. Underlying layers
of the soft tissue, including tendons, ligaments, and fascial
tissue (connective tissue) are the focus of a deep tissue massage.
The
fascia is found in all parts of the body, enveloping and actually
penetrating bones, nerves, muscles, blood vessels, and organs.
Our fascial tissue is the non-bone substance that helps give us
shape, support, and protection of internal organs.
Past
injury, including chronically tight muscles induced simply by
stress, often cause dense, hard bands of called adhesions to form
in fascial tissue, muscles, tendons, and ligaments. Clients with
longstanding complaints of chronic tension and contraction often
benefit from deep tissue work.
The
classic 'knots' in the upper back are often the result of longstanding
stress, and therefore the deeper layers of tissue have become
rigid and perpetually contracted. Deep tissue work seeks to help
relieve the pain and tension caused by tight muscles and other
tissues, by addressing underlying adhesions in deeper layers of
soft tissue.
What is Trigger
Point Therapy? The Trigger Point Therapy technique deals
with applying light, medium, and deep pressure to areas within,
and around muscles called trigger, or pressure, points. Trigger
points often refer pain and discomfort sensations to other parts
of the body, internally as well as externally. This means that
a client may feel pain in the thigh, yet the trigger point in
the lower back may actually be the source of the pain.
More
importantly, perhaps, than dealing with referred pain sensations,
trigger point therapy helps deal with underlying muscular and
bodily conditions, by easing tension at key junctures. This works
well for clients with Fibromyalgia, MPS (Myofascial Pain Syndrome)
and other similar conditions. This techniques was developed by
Dr. Janet G. Trabvell, physician to former president John F Kennedy.
This therapy is also helpful for easing pain and constant contraction
caused by TMJ.
What is Reflexology?
While a Reflexologist is a member of a separate discipline and
is licensed and regulated as such, there is a type of massage
with the same name. Reflexology Massage refers to dealing with
a focused area of the body, and is based on the concept that all
areas of the body have pressure point and 'meridians', or lines,
that connect the various parts of the body; within the microcosm
is the macrocosm. Therefore, by working on a single area, for
example the foot, the reflexology massage practitioner may address
issues beyond the foot itself.
This
system is based on the Chinese systems of healing and growth developed
ages ago, including Chi Kung.
What is Energy Work?
'Energy Work' is not actually Massage, as extremely light pressure is used, and none of the movements that encompass massage are ever employed. It is a hands-on modality, but "distance healing" by prayer and "good vibes" are included in this grouping, so touching the recipient of care is not imperative. There are many systems of energy work, from Therapeutic Touch (practiced by many nurses), to Chi Kung Massage, to Reiki, to therapists of faith incorporating unseen prayer, all the way to Atheistic therapists feeling "good vibes" toward the client. Practitioners may actively "move" energy, while others may simply pray to G-d and be still and silent. Energy work, in essence, may always be present, or at least should be, on some level, when helping others, in any way.
What is Reiki?
Reiki is a system of hands-on healing that was developed/discovered by Mikao
Usui after three weeks of uninterrupted fasting and meditation
on revered Mount Kurama, in Japan. Reiki refers to universal life
energy, much like the 'chi' energy referred to in Chinese healing
systems, 'Prana' of Hindu systems of religion and healing, and
even the notion of 'the
Force' explored in George Lucas' classic science fiction Star
Wars film series.
A
form of complementary therapy, and not massage therapy by precise
definition, Reiki involves channeling 'healing energy, prana,
spirit, or chi' into the client. This is done with hands placed
flat, palms down, as in the traditional 'laying of the hands'.
Practitioners often also conscious use these techniques to channel
energy while performing other forms of massage on the client.
Kirlian
high-voltage photography has demonstrated that a person practicing
such 'energetic therapies' is, in fact, able to induce changes
to the resistance and amount of 'energy' flowing from their hands.
What this means, at this point, is debatable, however, it is quite
clear that something is actually happening, and positive results
claimed are not simply placebo effect, but may actually involve
some form of yet unknown healing. Before skeptics spit out their coffee, consider that when a person is kind and helpful to another, both parties' chemical balance of the brain is altered for the better, circulation and breathing may be affected positively, and other observable, measurable changes occur that, in and of themselves, bring healing.
What is Hot Stone Massage?
During a Hot stone massage, the Massage Therapist places hot stones on your back, and sometimes legs and even arms, which help loosen muscles, and improve local blood flow. The set of stones is often comprised of a range of sizes, and the larger ones retain heat like a radiator. The moist warmth feels amazing; the stones are usually soaked in warm water. Having stones along the back most definitely alters the manner in which the therapist may work. Deep tissue massage may be aided by the use of heat radiated by the warmed stones. Hot Stone Massage is considered is one of the most relaxing modalities, most agree, in the hands of a competent LMT.
:Some therapists also use the stones to massage the client, either replacing their hands during that session, or using the stones as a supplemental implement at various times, for certain muscle groups. Believe it or not, Hot Stone Massage is a tradition that goes back to almost every one of our pre-modern cultures. The key with this modality is to find an attentive and skilled practitioner. Keeping track of the stones, while doing a massage session, can be quite a multitasking endeavor, reminiscent of the arcade game Tapper.
What is Craniosacral
Therapy?
Craniosacral Therapy is a system formulated
by physician William Sutherland, D.O. in the early twentieth century,
and is now associated with Dr. John Upledger and his famed Upledger
Institute. This treatment is often described as profoundly relaxing.
By applying
subtle pressure to the spinal and cranial bones, the practitioner
helps to 'bring the nervous system into harmony', dissolving stress
and strain. This modality addresses past traumas to the body,
including generalized nervous tension. This system is often used
for easing neck and back pain, chronic pain, mental stress, migraines
and other headaches, TMJ Syndrome, and fibromyalgia
The cerebrospinal
fluid flow fluctuates rhythmically, and may be balanced by the
Craniosacral Therapy practitioner. The mobility of the intra-cranial
and intra-spinal dural membranes, cranial bones, and sacrum are
all addressed, using extremely light pressure, usually about the
weight of a coin.
Doctor Sutherland
had had the privilege of studying with the founder of osteopathy,
Andrew Taylor Still. Sutherland proposed that the sutures on the
cranial bones were actually not fused, but rather able to move.
Sutherland observed that the sutures were, "...beveled, like
the gills of a fish, indicating articular mobility for a respiratory
mechanism."
This concept
ran counter to the idea of his day, as most doctors and researchers
thought that the bones of the skull did not move in any manner.
According to Sutherland's findings, the dural membranes, which
are a layer of the meninges, the membranes enveloping the central
nervous system, act to guide the motion of cranial movement, allowing
a sort of wave motion of contraction and expansion to occur. The
nervous system was found to be mobile, and not fixed.
What is Sports
Massage? Sports Massage involves the
stretching of the muscles, as well as massage, using a diverse
blend of modalities and techniques, with a focus on helping key
muscle groups in use during sports training and performance.
Sports Massage may be practiced at home, at the training center, or before, during, or after a game or performance. With Sports Massage, timing is everything: A massage before a dance performance isn't going to be done for the same reasons as a massage after; before you want to loosen up and get ready mentally and emotionally, and after, the massage is focused on recovery, relaxation, and any injuries.
What is Myofascial
Release? Myofascial
Release is an extremely light pressure modality focused on helping the body's fascia to become more fluid and less constricted. The fascial system cover the body like an inner wet suit under the skin, and is affected, and can affect, everything in the body.
Myofascial Technique is specifically
designed to gently stretch the fascia, releasing the binding between
fascia, integument, and muscles. This helps eliminate long-standing
conditions caused by scarring and past injury to the body. Myofasical
Release technique began from both Physical Therapy and Structural
Integration techniques, the first complete system created by Michael
Leahy.
What is Neuromuscular
Therapy? Neuromuscular
Therapy is a deep
tissue modality is a form of massage used to help clients with
pain issues. By noting the client's posture and bodily position
at rest, the practitioner then addresses any perceived abnormalities
by site specific, trigger point, and systematic massage work.
This system was developed by Dr. Stanley Leif, in 1934.
What is Pre-Natal
Massage?
Massage
for pregnant women is a massage modality helps relieve some of the bodily
and emotional stress associated with pregnancy, and has been proven in studies to be safe and effective, indicated for non-complication pregnancies. Specifically,
areas addressed include sciatica, lower back pain, leg and foot
circulation and pain.
What is Postnatal
Massage?
Postnatal Massage has been traditionally practiced on every continent, and is considered essential in various cultures. In India, the postpartum woman receive "Jaapa", or Therapeutic massage at home, practiced by MaliShwali. This modality helps restore the body, and specifically the tummy, to its pre-birth form. Postpartum massage can also help with circulation, as well as pain issues, helping with the lower back, buttocks, sacrum, still sore from the pregnancy, and upper back pain from breastfeeding in awkward positions for so much time. Therapeutic Massage can help increase breast milk production, by stepping up oxytocin and serotonin levels in the brain. This modality also helps with postpartun depression.
What is Massage
for Children? What is Pediatric Massage? Are the two the same thing?
Massage for Children, or Pediatric Massage, is massage that is performed on children from the age of infant to young adult, and is appropriate for healthy kids, children with issues, and child-athletes, and has been pioneered, studied, and popularized, by Tina Allen.
Kids
get stressed, although we often consider childhood to be a stress-free
time in life. Stressors include tension from schoolwork, long
hours, athletic and sports training, social issues, and more.
Injuries from sports are addressed, as well as general de-stressing.
A CPMT (Certified Pediatric Massage Therapist) is trained to work with this specific population, and may even have further specializations, such as working with Autistic Children, working with Infants, working with Kids with CP, and more.
Pediatric Massage has been shown in numerous studies to be of benefit to kids in many ways. Some children's parents seek massage for their child so they can de-stress from school and a hectic lifestyle. Other children have medical issues. And another group of kids is child-athletes, very serious competitors or performers who take their sport or art seriously, and essentially receive Pediatric Sports Massage.
What is Geriatric Massage? Can Geriatric Massage be performed at a Hospice or Nursing Home?
Geriatric Massage helps elderly people feel better by providing much-needed touch to patients, helping alleviate depression, increasing immunity, and bettering quality of life. Elderly people seem happy to know someone cares enough about them to help them feel better.
Massage for the Elderly may be performed at home, in the hospital, in hospice, or at a nursing home. The patient need not be able to get out of bed or their wheelchair, if wheelchair-bound, as Geriatric LMTs know how to work specifically with this population.
What is Oncology Massage? Is Oncology Massage safe?
Oncology Massage is more than just end-of-life gentle touch compassion, it also helps cancer patients with many issues, according to current research. Therapists must be specially Certified in this modality.
Oncology Massage was once discouraged, however, that was based on medical superstition, not well-supported study. Research now shows that the idea that Oncology Massage spreads cancer in the patient's body to be without any basis.
What is a Massage
Facelift? Does it cause raccoon eyes? A Massage Facelift
involves no actual surgery, unlike the more common medical
procedure with the same name. A massage facelift is essentially
a focused neck, scalp, and facial massage. The emphasis here is
to help relax and tone the skin and underlying tissues, as the
underlying muscles and connective tissues form a scaffolding upon
which the skin is anchored.
While the
effects are in no way comparable to the instantaneous, fast-change
Medical 'facelift' procedure, after even one session many clients
claim to see some improvement. A very detailed and focused massage
of all the key facial muscles and trigger points helps take years
off the client's appearance in only a short time, while helping
provide a deep level of relaxation, perhaps unparalleled.
Of course, there are no Raccoon Eyes to deal with afterwards.
What is Chair Massage? Chair Massage is frequently performed in malls or offices, fully clothed, sitting on a portable Massage Chair, leaning forward, head resting in a facerest, while the Massage Therapist focuses on the neck, shoulders, back, arms, and hands, all without any massage oils or lotion.
In just five or ten minutes, participants feel better! Unbelievable as it seems, studies show workers actually benefit from regularly scheduled sessions of workplace chair massage, even if the sessions are brief.
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