Neuromuscular Therapy (NMT) is a specialized form of manual therapy that utilizes static pressure on specific myofascial points to relieve pain. This technique manipulates the soft tissue of the body (muscles, tendons and connective tissue) to balance the central nervous system.

Relaxation Massage or Swedish Massage uses firm but gentle pressure to promote relaxation and ease muscle tension.

Deep Tissue Massage involves using direct deep pressure of friction applied across the grain of the muscles. This direct pressure works by physically breaking down these adhesions to relieve pain and restore normal movement.

 Lymphatic drainage massage involves gently manipulating specific areas of your body to help lymph move to an area with working lymph vessels.

Sports is also known as athletic massage and is simply massage on someone who is athletically involved in regular activity. Sports massage can be both pre and post event and/or maintenance massage.

Prenatal or Pregnancy Massage is massage therapy performed during pregnancy after the first trimester that can reduce anxiety, address the inevitable discomforts associated with the skeletal and circulatory changes and relieve muscle aches and joint pains.

Hot Stone Massage uses heated basalt stones as tools both by gliding over the skin and being placed on certain areas of the body. The heat from the stones relaxes muscles and increases the blood flow to the area being worked on which further accelerates the healing process.

Kinesio Taping is the definitive rehabilitative taping method within the international medical community. This latex free athletic tape can help reduce pain, increase endurance, promote circulation and reduce edema.

Reflexology is the practice of massaging or applying pressure to parts of the fee, or sometimes the hands and ears, with the goal of encouraging a beneficial effect on other parts of the body, or to improve general health.

Massage Cupping is the application of various shaped cups that suction onto your back, drawing out the body’s toxins. The cups are left on and moved around the body. After they’re removed, you may be left with circular marks, called a ‘cup kiss’ in varying shades depending on the amount of toxins in the body.

 Senior massage is a modality that is geared to older people or someone of advanced age. When it comes to massage, older people need to have a tailored massage that suits their needs. Every massage is different depending on what the client needs from their therapist. Taking into consideration medications and mobility issues.

Benefits from a Senior Massage:  

• Better sleep
• Increased blood circulation
• Improved mental outlook
• Pain management

Overall:     A Senior massage is usually shorter than a regular massage but still has all the benefits from a regular massage. Senior massage will help improve your mood, your movement and your stress levels.

Reiki is a non-invasive, stress-relieving energy healing technique that harnesses the universal
life force within each being to restore and strengthen their natural healing potential. Reiki is a
gentle touch therapy where the practitioner places their hands lightly on, or above, the clothed
recipient’s body.
A Reiki session feels like a wonderful glowing radiance that flows through and around you. Reiki
treats the whole person often leaving the recipient with a feeling of peace, security, lightness
and even at times a new perspective of traumatic experience. Overall Reiki provides a safe,
complementary healing experience that goes beyond relaxing to hold space for miracles to take
place.
What’s most interesting about Reiki, is that it’s not dependent on belief at all. It will work
whether you believe in it or not! Reiki comes from our Divine Source, and this puts people more
in touch with their own personal experience of this sacred connection.

CranioSacral is a gentle, hands-on method of evaluating and enhancing the functioning of a physiological body system called the craniosacral system – comprised of the membranes and cerebrospinal fluid that surround and protect the brain and spinal cord.

Rolfing is a holistic system of soft tissue manipulation and movement education that organizes the whole body in gravity.  Manipulation of the muscle fascia is believed to yield therapeutic benefits, including that clients stand straighter, gain height and move better through the correction of soft tissue fixations or dystonia.

Ear Candling is an ancient universal form of therapy used by many cultures around the world to relieve tinnitus (ringing in the ear), swimmers ear, reduce excessive sinus pain and pressure, assist with headaches, and help to unplug ears that can relieve itchiness and symptoms of allergies.

If you’re looking for a new way to relieve pain, reduce stress and anxiety and improve your health from
the inside out, call Leslie for an appointment. She can be reached directly at 980-349-8947. Leslie offers
acupuncture as well as phototherapy. To learn more about Leslie and her services or to schedule online,
please visit her web site at www.balancedhealthacu.com.