Massage Therapy Services
What makes it different from conventional massage?
STAMINA® Massage Therapy expands on conventional massage therapy knowledge with a new awareness that muscles have an optimal alignment. It became apparent that muscles can easily be moved into or out of alignment using even light pressure. This new therapy was founded upon the principles of STAMINA® Rehabilitation Therapy. As a result we are able to improve patient outcomes. This treatment contains all the benefits of conventional massage with additional benefits listed below.
HOW CAN IT BENEFIT ME?
· STAMINA® Massage Therapy is the first measurable system to use a performance scale to denote pre and post findings. Your STAMINA® Massage Therapist charts a graph of the changes in your muscle strength and range of motion before and after each massage. This is valuable to assess your progress.
· The direction your therapist moves your tissue will strengthen and stabilize the muscles that are the most important for load management and joint stability.
· Your muscles are isolated and tested before and after each session. Your brain will recognize the stronger function and loss of compensation. This correct function is your natural alignment. This approach will enable you to retain the benefits of the treatment for longer periods.
· Your therapist will discuss unconscious actions that you may be repeatedly doing that create mal-alignment in your body.
· STAMINA® Massage Therapy is a whole body treatment that is both relaxing and therapeutic.
For more information about this service or to schedule an appointment call
403 320-2177 or email info@staminatherapy.com
STAMINA® MASSAGE THERAPY
Patients regularly report more effective, lasting results with STAMINA® Massage Therapy as it adopts the STAMINA® muscle alignment principles for improved massage techniques.
75 MINUTES (includes pre & post testing for muscle assessment) $90.00 + GST
STAMINA® Academy Inc
UNDERSTANDING STAMINA® FOR MASSAGE THERAPISTS
Conventional massage therapy has many known overall health benefits. Over the years it has developed into numerous specialized areas, each having a specific approach to address pain and stress. Every modality goes through growth and change over time as new discoveries demonstrate improved methods of treatment and massage therapy has been no exception.
STAMINA® Massage Therapy incorporates all the benefits of conventional massage while recognizing new knowledge about the importance of working muscles in a specific direction to support their load management capabilities.
STAMINA® Massage Therapy evolved from STAMINA® Rehabilitation Therapy which is a new, effective manual therapy that addresses a host of pathologies. It achieves this by realigning the stabilizing load management muscles in the body for improved function and strength. The founders of STAMINA® Rehabilitation Therapy discovered that muscles have an optimal orientation and can become weakened or mal-aligned through incorrect posturing or movement and injury.
It became apparent that muscles can easily be moved into or out of alignment using even light pressure. In order to measure how well a muscle performs we use gold standard muscle isolation resistance tests which have been used in rehabilitative medicine for decades. These tests have been repeatedly conducted on patients in clinic with accuracy of 100% using pre and post isolation tests of the muscle. The only case where the test fails is with spinal cord injury where there is no brain signal to the muscle.
When treating their patients with STAMINA® Rehabilitative Therapy the therapists repeatedly observed a pattern of weakened muscles after patients had been for conventional massage therapy. Therefore, as the principles of STAMINA® evolved it become apparent that this discovery would significantly benefit conventional massage therapy to improve outcomes for patients.
As the profession of massage therapy moves as a whole into main stream primary health care it is important to find a bridge for massage within medical standards and protocols. STAMINA® offers this link and it is our goal through STAMINA® Academy Inc. to share this knowledge, making it accessible to massage practitioners. Transitions can be challenging for any practitioner but overall it is the patient who gains when innovative methods are effectively integrated into a profession. Additionally, STAMINA® Massage Therapy achieves its therapeutic effects with less strain on the therapist.
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