At South Bay Sports & Injury Center your Massage Therapist will be doing deep tissue work on you. This will begin to relieve your pain within the first few visits. Later the massage will begin to break down old tissues, allowing the muscle to begin to loosen and lengthen. This will allow a deeper, more comfortable adjustment by your Chiropractor. This is also where your stretching comes in. Once these old tissues begin to break down, you can stretch your muscles out and they will heal in a stretched out position. This is where you begin to see more permanent pain relief and mobility. Massage increases blood flow dramatically in muscles being worked on. Your body is healing you by creating new blood, triggered by the work of your Massage Therapist. It is essential to do your home stretching taught to you by our Physical Therapy Department after you get a deep tissue massage. You don't want these freed muscles to heal unstretched or most of the work is for naught.
A lot of people want to learn how to massage at home. We have given them pain relief, and now they want to help someone they love get some pain relief. Maybe they have a husband or wife who is in pain. People have asked me where they can get pictures of massage therapy. We recommend this book to everyone who wants to be able to do massage at home. Massage:101 essential tips More on the importance of stretching