Lisgar Sports Injury Massage

Sunny Maya Massage Therapy Clinic

Your First Visit:

Your consent to treatment includes a case history to establish a baseline for treatment including,

A brief physical assessment of range of motion and muscle joint manipulation or limitations,

A suggested treatment program is discussed that may best suit your needs,

Followed by a full hour of massage treatment. Stretching and exercise recommendations may be included.

Light gym clothing or shorts ideal for exercise and massage.

Now offering chair massage for head, neck and back treatments without oil.

The Assessment:

The massage therapist is assessing your condition using the basic five criteria defined by Leon Chaitow, ND, DO in his book: Modern Neuromuscular Techniques. The criteria are: Muscle tension, Spasm/strain, Myofascial trigger points, and Muscle deficiency/postural dysfunction. In detection of injury or dysfunction, the therapist then uses the palpation techniques of tone, tenderness, texture and temperature to better define your condition and assess how it may be treated.

Typical Massage Treatments

Swedish Massage involves use of fingers, knuckles and hand movements to slowly: knead, roll, wring, and friction muscles for vibration, tapotment, and joint movement.

Deep Friction Massage refers to the technique of manipulating the upper surface tissues with respect to the deeper tissue. Frictions is a common reference to preventing or breaking down lesions that have formed.

Manual Lymph Drainage is a technique used to increase lymph flow to reduce fluid accumulation, or edema.

Connective Tissue Massage technique consists of tangential pull or push of the skin to a series of reflex zones. An excellent relaxation and preliminary exercise for deeper therapeutic treatments.

Hydro Massage - an optional pre massage treatment of warm water with thousands of air bubbles and or whirlpool jets every second stimulating and relaxing your muscles. After 15 minutes, the massage therapist will have more willing muscles to receive treatment.

Active Massage - massage by Sunny Maya while doing stretches is a much enhanced means to improve flexibility and range of motion in the shortest time.

Massage Table, floor mats and seated massage may be used.

Finish the treatment with ice packs or ice massage.

Achieving Genetic Potential

Basic Stretching

Techniques may include  passive or partner assisted stretching, static hold,  to limber up the joints, muscles, tendons and fascia

Performance Peaking

The goal is to reach an optimal level of achievable performance in fitness and health, A program design may include warm up techniques, training schedule metered to race date, cool down exercises, gentle flexibility  with basics of periodization of exercise and training towards a race fitness peak date

Basic Exercise and Fitness Programs

Basic Exercise  offers the opportunity to keep the benfits of massage treatments, for overall health and improve from injury

Exercise program will focus on flexibility, endurance and cardio vascular fitness to start

From higher levels of fitness, strength and power exercises  leed to competitive motion for speed,  with sports specific movement patterns

Also a reality check for programs that account for the limitations of time available, age, genetics

Gait analysis, postural analysis and correction may be offered

Special emphasis on cycling, walking and running fitness.

Office worker ergonomics include work place body positions, stretches and accessory equipment.

Relaxation And Wellness

Now available Chair Massage can add a new dimension of treatment and comfort for those with mobility or disability issues

Sunny Maya Massage Therapy Clinic

P.O.Box 2512, Station D, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K1P 5W6

By appointment only 860-0362

sunny.maya@sympatico.ca