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ABOUT MASSAGE THERAPY:

Registered Massage Therapy is a drug-free, non-invasive therapy in a regulated profession,  used by patients/clients to develop, maintain, restore and optimize health in the soft tissues of the body, through direct or indirect manipulation of muscles, connective tissue, tendons, ligaments and joints. Signs of inflammation, adhesions, texture, temperature differences are important clues that show the Practitioner what is happening in the body. Systems in the body can also interact with one another. As we change in one area,  the patient/client has the potential ability to effect change elsewhere in the body. By manipulating soft tissues and acting on the muscular, nervous and circulatory systems using massage therapy, we pick up additional information to continue to optimize health in the tissues.

In turn, our level of wellness and physical function can be developed, maintained and improved, while physical dysfunction, pain and the effects of stress can be relieved, minimized or sometimes even prevented.

Today’s Registered Massage Therapists use advanced knowledge of anatomy and physiology to combine Massage Therapy techniques with remedial exercises and other therapies during treatment, and for further care at home by the patient/client. 

Using specialized techniques aimed at minimizing adhesions in soft tissues, you and your therapist can help cool inflammation, increase your range of motion, improve vascular and lymph function, raise immune system activity, slow nerve signals, and flush away nerve-irritating toxin wherever possible - often all resulting in relief from pain.

Nancy uses basic and Advanced Massage Therapy techniques where appropriate to restore proper physical structure, and thus function, to each individual layer of affected tissue, and will provide home care recommendations for you to continue to work toward your goals, where appropriate.



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ABOUT OSTEOPATHY:

Manual Osteopathy is a drug-free, non-invasive practice that views the individual as 'a functional unit' or 'a functional whole' - capable of restoring health in itself to all parts of the body, for the vitality of the whole person. Dr Andrew Taylor Still established the practice of Osteopathy in the late 1800s in the U.S. with the aim of using manual hands-on techniques to improve circulation and correct altered biomechanics, without the use of drugs.

Osteopathy concepts focus on rooting out the actual cause of the pain or dysfunction, rather than solely on its symptoms.

A system of assessing how our 11 systems are functioning - individually and together - osteopathic techniques aim to minimize or remove restrictions that prevent parts of the body from fulfilling their natural optimal functions - the restrictions that can prevent us from feeling like our fit and healthy selves. Using very precise palpatory and manual techniques, aimed at the exact layers of tissue that are problematic, osteopathic techniques help optimize the structural position, mobility and vitality of the tissues, to help minimize or remove restrictions and move the body toward a state of health.

Restoring mobility and proper function to each system allows normal interrelationships between systems to occur. When normal structural and functional relationships exist between the body's systems, there is health in the whole.

With 11 different systems in the body, it is vital that all of our systems work well independently - and interrelate with each other properly.

These systems include: