by Clare Katner | Dec 3, 2024 | Uncategorized
Lower back pain affects at least eighty percent of the population, and whether the problem is acute or chronic, it can deeply affect your overall health and wellbeing. We may not even realize how important our back’s health is to our whole-body strength until that...
by Clare Katner | Nov 18, 2022 | Deep Tissue Massage, Massage Therapy
A good deep tissue massage, combined with regular home use of the foam roller, is a proven combination that will keep you in optimum condition. Receiving deep tissue massage gives you a wide variety of benefits: From improving the pain in your feet – plantar...
by Clare Katner | Oct 1, 2022 | Uncategorized
What exactly is Deep Tissue massage, and how can it get you out of pain? Deep tissue massage is a combination of techniques your massage therapist uses. Usually, these methods use slower, firmer strokes focused on the deeper muscle and fascia layers. This approach...
by Clare Katner | Sep 2, 2022 | Health and Wellness, Sports Massage Therapy
Whether you’re an athlete or have back pain from your computer job, Sports Massage can help. It doesn’t matter if you strain your neck crawling through the mud of a Spartan Race or your back hurts from poor posture after 8 to 10 hours a day behind a computer. Whatever...
by Clare Katner | Aug 9, 2022 | Cupping, Massage Therapy
Once an injury or surgery has visibly healed, you may have the impression that you are 100% back to normal. You may think you can resume doing all the things you used to do. However, scar tissue often develops after surgery, fractures, or sprains and strains. The...
by Clare Katner | Feb 26, 2022 | Health and Wellness, Massage Therapy
More and more people are getting carpal tunnel working from home at their kitchen islands, dinner tables, or even the couch due to our new remote office lifestyles. I think that these less structured “desk jobs” have changed life for so many people around the world....
by Clare Katner | Feb 7, 2022 | Health and Wellness, Massage Therapy
Over two years ago we wrote a popular article on what to look for if you think you may be dealing with a rotator cuff injury. View it HERE. Now, we’d like to go over key techniques that can help treat this painful injury and get you back to your full range of motion....
by Clare Katner | Jan 1, 2022 | Massage Therapy
Yes, it’s that time of year again and there is a strong possibility that this year will be one of the most successful years for a life changing fitness program. A large number of our clients feel that Covid kicked their fitness program to the curb and gave them very...
by Clare Katner | Oct 28, 2021 | Health and Wellness, Massage Therapy
When sick with the flu or similar illnesses, we often think of the day when we will no longer have the runny nose, the aching cough or the extreme fatigue we’re feeling. For many, this day is just around the corner, and the symptoms clear up quickly. However, for...
by Clare Katner | Apr 11, 2021 | Health and Wellness, Massage Therapy
One of the main reasons to seek a licensed massage therapist when experiencing hip flexor pain is due to the iliopsoas (many people call it the psoas). It’s a large grouping of muscles that attaches directly to the spine in the lower lumbar region. Such a sensitive...
