Treatments Described

Green Room Rehab incorporates a variety of modalities into their treatments including traditional Swedish massage therapy, Thai massage, stretching, and stress relief techniques. Treatments often integrate Swedish, Peri-natal, infant instruction, deep tissue sport, injury rehabilitation, and reflexology. All services provided by Green Room Rehab are registered and eligible for extended health plan claims.

Swedish (Regular) Massage
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Swedish massage includes a variety of techniques in which the therapist uses lotion and glides over the skin. Patients have the choice of dressing down to their comfort level. The therapist leaves the room and the Patient is asked to undress down and lay face down in between the sheets and blanket. The Patient pulls the blanket over top and the therapist enters when the client is ready and un-drapes only the back or one limb at a time. New Patients should arrive ten to fifteen minutes early in order to fill out a case history form and allow enough time to ask questions which will familiarize themselves with the procedure.

Benefits include:

* Enhanced blood flow strengthening the heart
* Removal of waste products from the tissues increasing the immune system

* Stretching of ligaments and tendons improving flexibility
* Decreased scar tissue eliminating physical stress and tension

* Overall relaxation minimizing emotional stress.

Peri-natal Massage Therapy

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Peri-natal care focuses on the health of babies and the mothers from preconception to early childhood. Massage therapy is an important component of your

Peri-natal care. It provides nurturing and support as you go through the many physical and emotional changes of pregnancy and labor, and helps you deal with the emotional and practical stresses of caring for a newborn.

In addition to enhancing your self-image and helping you feel good about your pregnancy, massage has some very practical benefits as it can also:

* Assist in maintaining proper posture
* Helps keep your pelvis keep the in alignment
* Relieve the neck and back pain associated with extra weight, posture or imbalance
* Reduce stress on your weight-bearing joints
* Relieve muscle cramps and spasms
* Improve sleep patterns and reduce fatigue
* Relieve headaches
* Reduce stress levels and promote relaxation

* Reduce edema and improve circulation

* Help maintain skin elasticity to ease stretch marks
* Help manage digestive conditions
* Contribute to greater flexibility
* Enhance awareness to actively participate in the birth process

Thai Yoga Massage
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Thai massage is done on a mat on the floor with the patient wearing “stretchy clothes”. Thai massage is a combination of yoga stretches, acupressure points along the sen energy lines of the body, massage therapy, and joint mobilization, which eliminates tension, improves flexibility, enhances sports performance, and helps maintain a pain-free healthy body. Thai massage is also a highly effective therapy for treating a range of pathological conditions such as lower back pain.

Reflexology
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Reflexology is an ancient art that deals with the principles that there are “reflex points” in the feet and hands relative to every organ, gland or part of the body. By stimulating these points with deep compression and a specialized technique used by the practitioner, reflexology stimulates nerve and blood supply throughout the body, increases circulation and helps nature to balance and normalize.

Infant Massage

Studies have prov en that newborns need physical contact to thrive. Infant massage is one of the strongest ways you can communicate and bond with your infant while at the same time promoting your baby’s health and well-being.

A soothing massage can:

* Decrease tension and irritability when your baby is upset and help him or her feel more secure
* Help babies sleep better and have an easier time feeding
* Relieve colic and gas and digestion problems
* Allow all caregivers to interact with baby and create a special bond
* Provide sensory stimulation which is necessary for growth and development
* Teach babies a stress relief mechanism that they can continue through life

Deep Tissue Massage
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Deep tissue massage therapy is used to release chronic muscle tension through slower techniques and uses a more direct pressure and friction applied across the muscles fiber. This invigorating experience is a process of detection scar tissue, tension and adhesion’s, and slowly working into the deep layers of muscle tissue. Breathing and movement are also used for the release of muscular congestion.
Sports massage

Often used on professional athletes, especially the “weekend warrior”, sports massage utilizes specific techniques and stretches to help obtain and maintain maximum performance and physical conditioning with less chance of injury. Sports massage increases power, endurance, and flexibility, while training, racing, competing and aids in post workout recovery.

Carpal Tunnel

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A Carpal tunnel treatment focuses on the tissues surrounding the wrist. There is a large sheath that surrounds the wrist front and back. With over use of the same fine movements ie: typing or mousing, these structures can ad-hear to each other making movement painful and restricted, leaving wrist bones out of place. Holli specializes in bringing the wrist back into proper alignment and mobility.

Massage in General:
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* Reduces back and neck pain, tension headaches, intestinal irregularities, sleep disorders, chemical dependency, and fibromalgia.
* Reduces stress as well as the psychological alleviation of nervousness, pressure, and anxiety.
* Reduces predisposition to depression or burn out.
* Provides ongoing one on one postural and self care education.
* Restores a calm mind and feeling of well-being.
* Increases alertness, speed, accuracy and creativity.
* Decreases the body’s cortisol levels, decreasing anxiety.
* Increases the body’s serotonin levels, increasing a feeling of peacefulness.
* Offers a time efficient avenue for stress relief.
* Enhances your immunity.
* Is covered by your extended health benefits when offered by an RMT.