The Healing Touch:  Massage Therapy 

Health Benefits
Massage Styles Offered
Meet the Practitioners:     Penina Ballen

Prices & Packages 
Gift Certificates
How To Schedule
Who Can Get A Massage?

~Health Benefits From Receiving A Massage~

Massage is a healing art, which is both scientific and artistic in nature. It therapeutically improves physical, mental, and spiritual health. It uses most of the five senses to give the recipient several benefits including stress relief and aiding in relaxation, reduction of muscular spasm and soreness, raising immune system efficiency, and promoting overall well-being and self-awareness.  Most of us have stress and tension in our muscles.  

Massage therapy is recognized as one of the oldest methods of healing, with references in medical texts nearly 4,000 years old.

The reason why it can help you feel so good is easily explained by these simple physiological benefits:

 
~Physical Benefits~

A chiropractic spinal manipulation directly and specifically removes the pressure off of the nerves.  Massage therapy can enhance the chiropractic adjustment by relaxing the muscles and preventing old muscular patterns from pulling the bones out of alignment.   The combination of these therapies speeds up the healing process and reduces symptoms faster. 

~Styles Offered~

Massage Therapy:

• Swedish Rhythmic sweeping strokes towards the heart, light to moderate in pressure. Benefits include increased circulation, stress reduction, and relaxation.

• Deep Tissue Slow and deeper penetrating strokes that move fascia from binding to muscle fibers/joints. Benefits include relief from chronic painful joints/muscles, and increased circulation to affected areas.

• Sports Quick strokes such as kneading, compression, and friction plus range of motion exercises to stabilize muscles/joints used for pre and post athletic events. Benefits include improved circulation, decrease in sore or painful muscles/joints.  

• Orthopedic A proven, cutting edge approach  to treating pain, injury and other conditions with massage. The practitioner is knowledgable and skilled in their undersanding of soft tissue (meaning: muscle, tendon & ligament) pain &  injury conditions and in the use of a variety of massage treatment techniques.

~Massage Therapy Practitioners~
A professional certified massage therapist (CMT) always respects the modesty, comfort, needs and limitations of the client throughout each treatment.   In addition, the massage therapist will give specific instructions and encourage feedback at the beginning, during, and after the massage.    

Our therapist is professionally trained and has years of experience.  When needed, consultation with Dr. Lanett helps for information on how to best address your specific circulatory, muscle, bone, and nerve problems.  A massage feels great when it is done right.  They are the best!

~Massage Therapy Pricing~

 
~ Gift Certificates Available~

Massage not only feels good, it's good for you!  Here's an easy way to take care of your loved ones.  By purchasing a gift certificate for massage therapy you give the gift of well-being.  

~How to Schedule a Massage~

Call the office at 510-644-4414 to schedule your appointment..     

~Who Can Get a Massage ~

You do not have to be a chiropractic patient to receive massage in the office. If you are a patient and want to refer your spouse, children, friends, or co-workers for massage therapy, they are welcome!  If you are not a patient and have never received a massage here, you will be very impressed with the rejuvenating results.