Scar Tissue and How It Affects The Full Body Scar tissue. It’s a necessary part of the healing process; it’s simply how skin and connective tissues come back together after some sort of injury. Whether you’ve strained or torn a muscle, had surgery, a C-section, or injured a ligament, scarring sets in as a natural […]
Read More »Growth vs. Change Are you still doing the same job you did in 2003? Like, the same job, at the same place, with little variation? Some of you may enjoy that. Some of you may thrive in routine. And there is absolutely nothing wrong with that. However, the average career span of a massage therapist […]
Read More »Frequently Asked Questions About Massage AKA: Everything you’ve ever wanted to know about a massage session but were afraid to ask I’ve been working as a massage therapist since 2003 and over the years I’ve encountered a LOT of questions about massage and bodywork so I thought rather than make someone feel awkward if they […]
Read More »My Favorite Things Do you remember 30 years ago when we didn’t have things like streaming music, podcasts, e-readers and everything else that makes us be grateful for an instant gratification life that we live now? When our only music choices were cassette tapes (my first one was Whitney Houston and my first CD was […]
Read More »Pain Problems We Frequently See Michigan Massage and Wellness isn’t a place to just get a massage. We specialize in pain and injury and we see a lot it around here. It goes in waves too. We might get a wave of shoulder injuries one month and then the next month is all about the […]
Read More »Results (not) Guaranteed Do you remember back in the day when infomercials would grace the television promising results? “Get abs in 30 days or your money back!” or “Shred up to 10 pounds in your first 10 days, guaranteed!” I mean, back when I was first getting started doing massage therapy I took a course […]
Read More »The Cost of a Massage Once in a while, it doesn’t happen too often but it does happen, we get a phone call from someone asking what we charge for a massage, and we give them our rates. Sometimes they go ahead and book an appointment, but once in a while we are met with […]
Read More »Meet Michigan Massage and Wellness When it comes to choosing a massage therapist, what do you look for? Convenience? Price? Geographic desirability? Or do you just Google it and pick whoever pops up first? Or are you the type to do a lot of research and find a practice that best fits in with you? […]
Read More »Confession: I don’t like yoga When you hear the word yoga, you may think of large classes filled with people moving in unison through set flows and sequences; breathing and moving in a way that may or may not be conducive to how each individual body moves and behaves. Of course, there’s all kinds of […]
Read More »Cupping Therapy Cupping has been used for thousands of years in a variety of cultures from Egypt to China, and while it’s been popular among those “in the know” for years here in the states, it didn’t really hit the mainstream knowledge base until the 2016 Olympics when Michael Phelps and other athletes were sporting […]
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