Hands-on Treatment

If you would like to receive massage in Kanata South – Stittsville, you have many options of who to consult for this treatment. Massage therapists, physiotherapists, chiropractors and other health professionals may all use different massage techniques in their treatments. I will discuss here the way I use massage as part of my physiotherapy treatment. Not all physiotherapists use massage in their treatments.

But my one-on-one hands-on treatment approach means that I often include different forms of massage in my treatment programs. I am trained in various  techniques including therapeutic massage, myofascial release, joint mobilizations and manipulations, and cranio-sacral therapy. I may use these techniques to help re-align a joint that was previously misaligned and limiting your function.

The Benefits of Therapeutic Massage

Massage helps to release tension and promote relaxation, but the use of therapeutic massage in physiotherapy does not limit itself to this goal. When I use massage in my treatment programs, I use specific techniques in order to address very specific goals. For instance, I use myofascial release to loosen and release the soft tissue around the low back when i am treating lower back disc injury or sciatica. In these cases, i will often be providing a bit of traction (upward and downward stretching) to the back at the same time to relieve pressure on specific areas. Another example is when I use massage to stretch specific muscle groups around a joint so that it may move more normally and become less painful. So i am not giving a general whole body massage, but I am rather targeting specific areas of the body that need to be relaxed and stretched in order  to allow other parts to move freely and without pain.

I also use massage to eliminate scar tissue in and around tendons in cases of tendinosis or after specific injuries or surgeries. These are just some of the case in which various ways in which I may include massage in your physiotherapy treatment.

For massage to be helpful in relieving pain, your pain must first be diagnosed properly. Meaning that we should clearly understand what is the source of your pain and why it is happening. Second, we need to know what part of the body specifically needs to be massage and what specific massage technique it needs in order to correct the problem. And third the person performing the massage needs to be proficient and skilled in how to do it. Most people can safely perform a rudimentary massage and may even become skilled in doing it, but very often a general massage will not necessarily relieve your pain. In fact, if you massage wrong area at the wrong time, you may even exacerbate your pain.

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The reason that it is helpful to consult a trained physiotherapist or other health professional, is that we are also trained to meet the first 2 criteria of an effective massage. We can diagnose your issue and identify where and how the massage should be performed, and what specific technique should be used, so that it may be effective and reach its goal.

Therefore, if you are looking for massage in Ottawa, you need to take into consider what your specific health condition is and what form of treatment would be the most helpful for that condition. As a physiotherapist, I am trained to diagnose and treatment “disorders associated with physical dysfunction, injury or pain” (Physiotherapy scope of practice, Physiotherapy Act, 1991)

I can use massage as part of a comprehensive treatment plan to address your pain. To learn more about other modalities involved in physiotherapy treatment, consult our Physiotherapy page.