Our Therapy types

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The term "deep tissue" is often misused to identify a massage that is performed with sustained deep pressure.  Deep tissue massage is a separate category of massage therapy, used to treat particular muscular-skeletal disorders and complaints that employs a dedicated set of techniques and strokes to achieve a measure of relief from muscular pain.  It should not be confused with "deep pressure" relaxation massage, which is one that is performed with sustained stronger pressure throughout an entire-body session, and that is not performed to address a specific complaint.  

Deep tissue massage is applied to both the superficial and deep layers of muscles, fascia, and other structures.  The sessions are often quite intense as a result of the deliberate, focused work and is always done within the clients pain tolerance.  If a practitioner was to employ true deep tissue techniques on the entire body in one session, it would be next to impossible to perform; it might lead to injury or localized muscle and nerve trauma, thereby rendering the session counterproductive. To avoid injury to your muscles it is very important that your massage therapist understands the difference between "deep tissue" and "deep pressure" massage. At ProMedMa we have extensive training and experience in deep tissue treatments and techniques which gives our clients the pain relief they are looking for.

Trigger Point release therapy is a form of treatment, usually administered by trained massage therapists, that requires a great deal of knowledge on the Musculoskeletal system as well as the ability to feel a difference in the density and texture of muscle tissue. Trigger Points are a form of knots in the muscle that referrers pain to local and distant areas of the body. This is called referred pain.  Muscle fibers run parallel with each other and Trigger Points are spots in the muscles where the fibers have become bunched up and look more like a pot of cold cooked spaghetti. As the same with cold spaghetti, these fibers can become glued together which then can reduce your movement and require a therapists to break them apart using a direct and focused pressure. Once the fibers have been separated from each other, the therapist then realigns the fibers to be parallel and in their proper direction.

There are about four hundred muscles in the human body and any one of them can develop several trigger points, potentially causing referred pain and dysfunction.  Symptoms can range from intolerable, agonizing pain to painless restriction of movement and distortion of posture.

Dr. Janet Travell and Dr. David Simons seminal work on the subject "Myofascial Pain and Dysfunction" The Trigger Point Manual, states the following:

- Around 75% of pain clinic patients have a trigger point as the sole source of their pain.

- Arthritis is often cited as the cause for pain even though pain is not always concomitant with arthritis. The real culprit may be a trigger point, normally activated by a certain activity involving the muscles used in the motion, by chronically bad posture, bad mechanics, repetitive motion, structural deficiencies such as a lower limb length inequality or a small hemipelvis, or nutritional deficiencies.

- The following conditions are also frequently misdiagnosed as the cause of pain when trigger points are the true cause: carpal tunnel syndrome, bursitis, tendonitis, angina pectoris, and sciatic symptoms, along with many other pain problems.