25 Jan Why See A Registered Massage Therapist (RMT)?
Why see a Registered Massage Therapist (RMT)?
Have you ever wondered what a Registered Massage Therapist (RMT) can do for you? While often stereotyped to have relaxing benefits, Massage Therapy play a massive role in the therapeutic side of care. Every Massage Therapist has the ability to reduce pain in specific areas, change movement pattern dysfunctions, improving muscular strength and creating a plan for general body maintenance.
Often times, the biggest motivator from a member perspective is pain. Pain arises after the body responds to moving improperly or a mechanism of injury from activity or fall. As Practitioners, one of the more common reasons we see people in pain is due to movement, or lack thereof. What can massage do in terms of pain? Pain in a muscle is often associated with tightness, weakness or imbalances in musculature, joint related pain or neurological symptoms.
Massage Therapists are the soft tissue experts of the healthcare industry. They can focus on the ability to reduce muscle tone which can correlate with the pain your body is feeling. An increased muscle tone often shows up when a muscle is overused or underused. Massage Therapists have the expert ability to apply sustained pressure on an area, or relax musculature with general massage techniques in order to facilitate muscle activation which will decrease the pain felt in the area of the body you are experiencing.
To correlate with pain, as previously mentioned, it often arises with movement or lack thereof. How can a Massage Therapist change a movement pattern? Well often enough muscular tightness or weakness creates an imbalance or dysfunctional movement patterns in the body. As the soft tissue experts, Massage Therapist can create new movement patterns by reducing muscle tone.
Through a series of general massage techniques, stretching and/or pin and stretch movement decreasing muscular tone will allow your brain to activate the corresponding muscles appropriately. If you have the ability to utilize your muscular system efficiently, your movement patterns will change. Keep in mind, your body will always do what you want it to do it’s just a matter how it’s done.
Improving muscular strength? While often regarded as the soft tissue experts, Massage Therapists are highly trained in therapeutic strength rehabilitation. People often go to Physiotherapists for this sort of healthcare or education, people are often unaware Massage Therapists are highly educated in this field as well.
While it is more regarded to see a Physiotherapist for bigger issues, Massage Therapists have the ability to provide general stretches, basic strength exercises and fine tune your mobility for your home care after each visit. Don’t hesitate to ask your Massage Therapist for advice on what you can do at home to help expedite the process of not only feeling better but also moving better.
General body maintenance is a new wave of care in our industry. As well all know everybody can use a little TLC on a monthly basis. Once you are out of pain, moving better and this new movement pattern is corrected with strength, every RMT at MYo Lab sees the benefit in general maintenance care. As a part of human nature, we all resort back to our old ways and abnormal movement patterns.
Now often enough pain does not arises until something goes terribly wrong, it’s beyond important to see a Massage Therapist on a monthly basis to ensure your bodily dysfunctions are corrected before pain arises.
We are always accepting new members who are ready to commit to their health and wellness journey. If you are ready to experience the MYo difference, book now so one of our team members can welcome you to the MYo Lab community!