High functioning tissues have a few basic characteristics: good nutrition of blood and lymph, fiber alignment, normal resting length, elasticity and plasticity, to name a few. These terms are not familiar to most, but you can see that it's more than muscular tension that you need to have for high functioning tissue and joint function.

I utilize orthopedic techniques, various tissue manipulation techniques, stretching and neuro-muscular balancing techniques to restore optimal health and function to your muscles and joints. 

Sports Massage has the goal to prepare the athlete for  competition and to speed recovery. This is a three stage process: Pre-Event massage, Post-Event massage and Maintenance massage. Sports massage is not a technique, but an application of many techniques to optimize the athlete's goals.

Re-habilitative Massage has the goal to recondition, realign and restore the tissues to optimal health. These goals aim at the neurological, visco-elastic and piezo-electric properties of the muscles and connective tissues. The electrical, fluid, motor and sensory functions all have to be returned to normal for recovery from injuries and for efficient movement to occur. 

The main techniques I use are:

• Basic massage techniques for flushing the tissues of metabolic wastes and creating improved blood flow to ischemic areas
• Deep Tissue and Trigger Point for tension release, stretching of underlying connective tissue and postural alignment
• Orthopedic massage techniques to realign muscle fibers and muscle groups with a "rolling wave" technique which reduces adhesions and encourages normal vascular and neurological activity.
• Stretching for corrective flexibility (postural, muscular and joint imbalances), active flexibility (flexibility of motion when muscles are active), and functional flexibility (establishes function of tissues through all planes of motion with control).
  
• Neuro-muscular balancing techniques which are often integrated with the stretching to re-establish balance between opposing muscle groups and to normalize neuro-muscular function.

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