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February 13, 2010
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  1. What is the difference between Deep Tissue and Swedish Massage?

  • Deep Tissue style is more focused, nuanced, goal oriented, and outcome based.  The name "deep tissue" is not about deeper pressure.  Instead, it is specific focused, allowing the therapist to explore what is going on at a problem area.  Various techniques that address tissue deeply include myofascial release, trigger point therapy, neuromuscular therapy (NMT),  cross-fiber frictioning, and ortho-bionomy to name a few.  Massage therapists develop their palpation skills over time to determine if a problem is fascial (connective tissue), muscular, or perhaps involves tendon and ligament structures.  Some problems respond better to one therapy over another.  A skilled, experienced massage therapist can help guide your treatment plan.  Soft-tissue problems cause most of our pain issues; you will be amazed how massage relieves conditions you thought you had to live with!
  • Swedish massage uses 5 strokes with the ultimate goal of assisting relaxation and easing tension.  Though it is not considered "out-come based", relaxation massage is the 'bones' for most other modalities.  Our bodies continually seek a state of homeostasis, where all systems are operating within their best, optimal ranges.  Studies have indicated that massage has a positive relationship on the body's ability to achieve and even maintain parasympathetic response (called the relaxation response and opposite of the fight or flight response).  Healing of acute and chronic pain issues happens more efficiently when the nervous system isn't devoting its energy to sympathetic responses (fight or flight) such as high-blood pressure and heart rate, pain management, and digestion that is compromised.  Normally functioning physiology allows for the instant and efficient chemical exchange of each of these response mechanisms.  However, over time, constant stress mechanisms can keep the fight or flight response turned on.  To a bodyworker this is evident when a client cannot release the weight of their head or arms into the therapist's hands.  Sometimes 're-training' of the nervous system happens once pain is alleviated and at other times it is the "on" sympathetic nervous system that is keeping a painful condition around.  Swedish/relaxation massage then acts as both assessment and treatment.   

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