The Allied Therapy Center offers a variety of approaches to massage
therapy. Our therapists have primarily trained and worked in clinical
therapeutic settings and as a result, our practices and approaches
tend to concern the evaluation and treatment of soft tissue injury and
illness.
We have a holistic approach to massage therapy. We believe that the
path to health and wellness usually involves more than a simple “fix
it” approach.
We have all undertaken professional studies of systematic approaches
to massage therapy that we use to treat our patients and clients and
as a group we are less wedded to technique than we are process.
We look forward to you questions about our work and we look forward to
working with you.
Contact us to set up a massage therapy
session at our Gainesville, Florida clinic.
Deep Tissue Massage - Myofascial Therapy
All of our massage therapists have extensive training in working with
the connective tissue, or “fascia” that gives support to, and make
connections between, all the various tissues of the entire body. Deep
tissue work can have widespread effects on health and wellness and
does not have to be painful work. Our massage therapists use slow, sensitive myofascial technique that can be quite effective in treatment of
fibromyalgia, as well as tendonitis and many other injuries
Neuromuscular therapy (NMT)
Neuromuscular therapy addresses the relationship between the nervous
system and the muscles. The body often develops patterns related to
injury or repetitive activities and these can create chronic
discomfort, tightness, and pain. NMT uses varying degrees of pressure,
movement, and stretching to facilitate a “re-patterning” of the
relationship between the nervous system and muscular systems in order
to reduce pain. This massage therapy work is specific and often used with injury.
True quiet means keeping still when time has come
to keep still and going forward when the time has come to go forward.
In this way rest and movement are in harmony with the demands of the
time and thus there is light in life.
--I Ching
Craniosacral therapy
At the ATC we blend the observations we make with our senses with the
knowledge we have gained from out experience and education and come to
a place where we can “treat” our patients in a manner that relieves
their pain and lets them live a more comfortable life.
Craniosacral therapy is about finding the balance and harmony beneath
the early impressions. It involves more quiet, more insight, more
waiting, more watching.
Craniosacral therapists tend to allow what they sense and observe
to become changes in our patients and often times in ourselves and in
many circumstances we find that these changes correlate to decreases
in pain and increases in function in our patients.
This work is mysterious. It would be unfair to suggest that some body
of science stands behind either the nature of the work or the work
itself. But if practitioners and physicians of any discipline are
truly honest, they must admit that there is no absolute scientific
evidence that any particular therapy “works,” only that it appears to
be effective under certain conditions. We have come to accept the
usefulness of craniocacral therapy through our own studies and
observations, over many years of treating patients in clinical
situations for a variety of pain conditions, and we use craniosacral
therapy in many situations as a component of our work.
We refer you to the work of the following websites for more elaborate
descriptions of craniosacral therapies. We appreciate your questions
about what we do and what might be appropriate for you.
The Upledger Institute
http://www.upledger.com/
The Milne Institute
http://www.milneinstitute.com/home.html |
