More About Graston Technique Therapy
A Graston technique therapy is a manual therapy that is effective in improving and treating soft tissue conditions. Patients experiencing chronic pain, acute, or post-surgical conditions can greatly benefit from GT therapy.
Stainless steel tools are used in Graston technique therapy. They are usually concave and convex shapes with rounded edges…
Massage Therapy For Runners and Athletes
Whether you run for fun, competition, or stress relief, there are ways massage therapy can significantly improve your running potential.
Reduced Muscle Pain and Fatigue
When you have started a new training program, increased the intensity of your training, or are simply just running more mileage, massage therapy…
Well-weekend with four 20-minute presentations, each of which will teach, demonstrate, and guide a different approach to at-home wellness. Each presentation will leave you with a variety of tangible exercises, tools, and resources that you can choose from and try out at home to improve and develop your personal wellness.
Topics to be covered will include:
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Tui Na- Chinese Medicinal Deep Tissue Massage
It is a form of deep tissue work. I also blend well with other massage styles.
TuiNa is a type of massage that is becoming more and more popular for both practitioners and clients is Tui Na massage or Tuina massage. Pronounced βtwee-Nah,β Tui Na massage is…
Facial Cupping Can be Added to Your Massage
This is an example of Cupping Facial- a treatment on it's own. I however offer facial cupping, as an add-on to a full body massage. Facial cupping is the same as Cupping facial in terms of cupping technique itself and benefits, it is just done in a…
HSAs, HRAs, FSAs inΒ Vermont
Due to no regulation of massage therapy in VT and thus inability to bill insurance, we would like to remind that we can take Health savings account payments with a referral from your doctor stating that massage is beneficial to your treatment/wellness plan.
Health Savings Accounts (HSA), Health Reimbursement Accounts (HRA) and…
Massage Incorporating Tools
Soft Tissue Mobilization
After completing Graston M1 Basic Tools training and purchasing Graston Tools, (which were not cheap!) I decided to complete final level Graston M2 Technique TrainingΒ and take the preferred provider test.
It was truly a great class. What impressed me the most was how diaphragmatic breathing can improve range of motion. Not…
Β Brilliant Massage Therapy is now officially certified provider of Graston Technique a form of Instrument Assisted Soft Tissue Mobilization.
Graston Technique is often performed by Physical Therapists, Massage therapists, Chiropractors,Β Occupational Therapists.
Performing Graston Technique is fun because stainless steal instrumentsΒ amplifies tissue fibrosis to therapists hands the way fingers sometimes can't. In other words its…
What is Fascia?
Thoracolumbar fascia
AΒ fasciaΒ (/ΛfΓ¦Κ(i)Ι/; plural fasciae /ΛfΓ¦Κii/; adjectiveΒ fascial; from Latin: "band") is a band or sheet of connective tissue, primarily collagen, beneath the skin that attaches, stabilizes, encloses, and separates muscles and other internal organs.
The fascial network is a beautiful, crystal like, three-dimensional, spiderβs web structure that is ever-flowing and uninterrupted. It encompasses the…
If you have been suffering from back pain, there are things you can do live as pain free as possible with little changes. If you do not have any bulging or herniated disks or any other damage with these little steps you might be able to keep it that way until the old age! It's…
Pre and Post Natal Massage
Prenatal massage is therapeutic bodywork that focuses on the special needs of the mother-to-be as her body goes through the dramatic changes of pregnancy.Β It enhances the function of muscles and joints, improves circulation and general body tone, and relieves mental and physical fatigue. The gentle, noninvasive approach of prenatal…
Fascia Release
Recently I have attended a class (2017 September) on back and neck injuries with Dr. Ben Benjamin in Concord, CT. This professional has been doing massage over 40 years now, since he was 20 years old. He taught us new techniques on advanced Fascia work for neck and back pain. Also how important…