Massage has been around for thousands of years, but during the past century, knowledge of anatomy and physiology has increased greatly.  Massage Therapy has become a dynamic health modality.  Practitioners advance their techniques by continuing their studies in any of three areas of bodywork techniques: soft-tissue modalities, movement modalities and energy modalities.  Kinesiology (movement), myofascial release and lymphatic drainage, (soft-tissue), and acupressure (energy) name a few.  Career massage therapists also understand the psychological and emotional implications of 'therapeutic relationship'.  Medical disciplines such as physical therapy and sports medicine inform the continuing education that massage therapists can study.  Health Matters therapists are qualified in techniques to alleviate, even eliminate:

Acute and Chronic pain

• low back
• neck
• piriformis syndrome (often misdiagnosed as sciatica)
• muscle pain from inactivity or overuse
• chronic fatigue syndrome
• fibromyalgia
• headaches
• plantar fasciitis (and other conditions that runners get)
• meralgia paraesthetica

Tendonitis

• "golf" and "tennis" elbow
• rotator cuff (a group of four muscles)
• wrist (carpal tunnel syndrome)
• ankle (achilles)

Lymph Stagnation

• post surgical swelling that lingers
• trauma induced
• 'puffiness' at neck, armpits, and under eyes

Lymphatics are the next frontier of discovery in human disease. Long ignored because of their subtlety and complexity, the mysteries of our cellular ‘waste disposal’ system have been comprehensively deciphered by Bruno Chikly.

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