How Often Do I Need a Professional Massage?

how often? Clients often ask this question, and there is no single or simple answer. It depends on what you want from a massage, whether you always want the same thing and upon the condition of your body and state of mind. During these economically challenging times, your discretionary income will have some bearing on your health & wellness budget for alternative health services. For some individuals recovering from a work or car accident & experiencing acute and constant pain, you will need more frequent, short visits of 2 to 3 times a week.

A seasoned massage therapist can palpate the common stress patterns in your body and be able to assess in the first massage when it would best serve you and your body to work with the individual stressors that accumulate from your lifestyle. Regular maintenance wellness massages from a seasoned therapist like myself will induce an inner balance that goes beyond what an amateur could give relief with. Click here for the Massage Styles to choose from.

People often tell us they "often get luxurious massages when they are on vacation." Typically the stereotypic fantasy for relaxation massage is one of being pampered with intensive rest and relaxation. People who have wellness massage to feel on top of life usually have it as often as they feel they can afford it, budgeting for them each month, or as often as they can give themselves permission to feel that good! This may be the case for hard working mothers, computer professionals teachers & nurses, most susceptible to burn out, who find they are last on the take care list.

Therapeutic massage may be even more valuable as a brief respite - a mini- vacation - from the stresses of your daily routines, to support some maintenance work done to your body/mind. You’ll probably find that you will get a more satisfying massage from your reliable, local massage therapist who knows your body well, than from someone you may never see again at a spa or vacation resort.

Still, a professional massage feels great after a day on the road or getting off of a long plane trek or perhaps a sports orientated weekend marathon like a tennis match, mountain climbing, skiing, golfing, biking or hiking. Life's small and large crisis’s like weddings and divorces, moving day, bar exams and funeral- or whenever someone needs a pickup are the "happy hour occasion" for a mini or full session massage. This is where a gift certificate may be just the thing for your loved ones working overtime at the office. You might consider a mini- 30 minute session to revive you or a loved one, as a substitute to a night out on the town treat with dinner & wine.

Medical Massage for Pain Relief & Rehabilitation

For constant, moderate or occasional acute muscular or joint pain, your doctor may recommend the gentler forms of craniosacral or myofascial bodywork to unravel the inflammation process & pain / muscular defending patterns. After severe muscle damaging injuries. If your chiropractor, physical therapist or medical doctor is NOT acquainted with medical massage, our clinic will make the time to educate them about it.

Weekly

For individuals who are healing but still weak or vulnerable in their soft tissue or joints. Might be appropriate for those that are tired & sore from compensating for injured muscles.

Twice Monthly

For occasional pain, for chronic low grade continual muscular pain & for toning during recovery from sports injuries, accidents or surgery.

Monthly

For body awareness to prevent re-injury to old or sub-chronic injuries.

Wellness Massage for Stress Relief

2-3 times weekly: for extreme stress coupled with high performance demands. For occupational or lifestyle tensions, which build up and carry over week to week.

Weekly

For people in high stress occupations or stressful living conditions. Example: last trimester pregnancy, parents with a teething or sick baby, a medical student doing their hospital internship, or long 12 hour shift work, without much restoration time.

Bi-monthly

For normal tensions of modern living - commuting, raising Young children or teenagers, a hospice care giver and for those spending longhours earning their living in front of a computer screen. It may be the health regime for the professional or trades person seeking a higher degree of wellness. Bi-monthly massages should be included with proper nutrition, exercise & psychological & spiritual balancing.

Monthly

Increases body awareness and body mind communication, more stress preventing than stress relieving.