6 Benefits of Deep Tissue Massage Treatment

Pain from musculoskeletal issues can be niggling at best and out-right debilitating at worst. They can have a huge impact on your day to day movement and significantly reduce your quality of life. Also, if there is physical or emotional tension or stress, then this can exacerbate your symptoms and contribute to aches, pains and discomfort. One way to help treat symptoms and reduce discomfort is to have a deep tissue massage.

In our Sydney clinic, the deep tissue massage therapist applies usually firm pressure to the muscles and connective tissue as well as ligaments and tendons. This can help to release deep tension and therefore reduce or remove pain and discomfort.

This form of massage can be very effective for many types of conditions, some of which include a sore neck, stiff shoulders, general muscle tightness in the upper and lower back, hips and legs.

Releasing muscular tension is one of the main reasons pain can be reduced. Also by stimulating the blood flow, fresh nutrients are brought into the area and metabolic wastes are taken away – this too helps to reduce pain. Re-establishing the normal movement of joints will also help to reduce pain.

If you have a muscle injury deep tissue massage certainly can play a role in its treatment. Careful application of pressure, articulation of the joints and encouraging the soft tissue to heal, can be the effect of the treatment. If the injury is old and there is scar tissue, this therapy can help to break up the scar tissue and may help the area to return back to normal functioning.

Muscle stiffness and tightness is very commonly associated with incorrect posture. When this stiffness persists and becomes chronic, the reduced mobility and any pain or associated discomfort can massively affect the quality of life and your levels of enjoyment. So do consider havening a treatment to help with this type of problem and enjoy the freedom of better more aligned posture.

Pain from osteoarthritis may cause great discomfort, to say the least. In allopathic medicine, it is considered to be a condition to which there is no real cure, but there are many medications that are used, in many different systems of medicine, that are used in this condition. Part of the treatment regimen can include regular massage therapy treatments which can help to preserve joint mobility as well as reduce pain.

Problems of the Sciatic nerve lead to pain and can cause tingling sensations and numbness. Irritation or impingement of the sciatic nerve can lead to significant pain and neurological symptoms. Severe sciatica is debilitating. Deep tissue massage in the Newtown Clinic can help you recover from this condition. Other therapeutic measures will most likely be used as well to help reduce pain and inflammation and treat the underlying cause.

Nerve compression in the wrist can cause high levels of pain as well as numbness. The therapist uses their palms and fingers to manipulate the tissues to help relieve pressure from the nerve to reduce the pain. This type of massage will also help in enhancing the mobility of the wrist.

Now let us take a look at how it is done. Generally, light pressure is applied to prepare the muscles and allow for in increased blood flow and release of surface tension. After the preparation is complete, the therapist moves to the next step where they apply deeper pressure to the affected areas using forearm, thumbs, elbows, and knuckles. This method is called stripping.

In the friction method, however, pressure is applied to “realign” or “rebalance” the tissue fibres to help the release of stress and tension as well as make sure the blood flow is optimal.

The Deep tissue massage therapist in the Sydney clinic is highly trained and your treatment will be safe. But sometimes you might feel slight pain or discomfort in the affected areas where he is working on. This pain can be due to a few things such as working on scar tissue to help it to ‘break up’. The actual pressure itself can feel uncomfortable at times as the pain receptors are triggered. But at anytime you do feel pain, simply let the therapist know and they will adjust accordingly. There is a misconception that a good treatment requires pain. Sometime this is true up to a pint, but it is more about having an effective technique and a clinical knowledge of the musculoskeletal system.