Therapeutic Services
Feel and perform your best with sauna, steam, massage, and physical therapies
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- Loosen stiff joints
- Younger looking skin
- Reduce stress
- Flush toxins
- Increase circulation
- Relax muscles
- Open sinuses
- Cleanse skin
- Burn calories
- Clear congestion
Imagine being reinvigorated by a deep, healthy sweat. Tension subsides, muscles unwind, and mind relaxes, revives, and prepares for whatever the day will bring. Look and feel better. Give yourself 10-15 minutes of gentle, persistent heat and reap the benefits!
USES:
- Relieve stress
- Induce deeper sleep
- Increase heat shock proteins
- Increase circulation
- Relax muscles
- Improve cardiovascular performance
- Lower risk of dementia
- Soothe aches and pains in muscles and joints
- Burn calories
- Increase heart health
- Flush toxins
- Fight illness
- Lessen chronic pain
- Cleanse the skin
- Reduce inflammation
- Younger looking skin
Reiki uses a technique commonly called palm or hands on healing. Through the use of this technique, practitioners transfer universal energy (i.e., reiki) in the form of Qi through the palms, which is believed to allow for self-healing and a state of equilibrium. This is a fully clothed session.
USES:
- Headaches
- Mental clarity
- Health and well-being
Active Isolated Stretching (AIS) is a technique that is used in conjunction with Swedish or deep tissue massage to increase elasticity in muscles, joints, and fascia. AIS is great for elongating tissues and releasing major muscle groups while providing functional and physiological restoration of superficial and deep tissue layers.
USES:
- Improve flexibility
- Injury prevention
- Pain relief
Athletes of every style use sports massage to prepare for optimal performance, function smoothly during training, or recover after intense activity. Sports massage is great for increasing mobility while reducing pain and the likelihood of sports-related injuries. Be proactive and nurture your muscles before injury, or aid recovery and improve posture, flexibility, and strength.
USES:
- Injury prevention
- Pain relief
- Improve strength and posture
Every point on your foot, hand, head and face corresponds to an internal system of your body. At Merritt we offer Reflexology on the feet and hands. This is a fully clothed session.
USES:
- Headaches
- Mental clarity
- Health and well-being
A combination of mobility and stretch techniques. Several tools are used to treat muscular restrictions. The hand-held tools allow the therapeutic specialist to treat a problem area with appropriate and focused pressure. This is a great specialty massage for people with plantar faciitis, shin splints, and unwanted scarring. This is a fully clothed session.
USES:
- Plantar fasciitis
- Pain relief
- Relief of chronic tension
Simplified, Kinesio Tape is a used to speed healing and recovery, prevent muscle spasms or cramps, and reinforce proper structural alignment. The tape lifts and lightly pulls superficial tissues into ideal position which allows nourishing blood to flow freely and replenish deep tissues. The benefit of Kinesio Tape is external and internal.
Kinesio tape does not contain latex and will not limit range of motion.
USES:
- Injury prevention
- Improve strength and posture
- Pain relief
Expectant mothers are massaged to reduce back and joint pain, decrease stress and anxiety, and improve restful sleep. Studies from the Touch Research Institute suggest that expectant mothers who get weekly massages have lower levels of the stress hormone (cortisol) and higher levels of the feel-good hormones (serotonin and dopamine). Pregnancy Massage includes side-lying positioning. “High risk” patients require a doctor’s note of approval.
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- Improve comfort
- Balance hormones
- Aid sleep
The primary goal of Therapeutic Massage is to provide recovery, chronic pain relief, and relaxation. This approach includes aspects of several modalities, including Swedish, Sports, Deep Tissue/Myofascial Release, Assisted Stretching, Hot Stones, and Cupping. This is a great choice for first time massage recipients, as the entire session is customized to the body’s needs and we can shift direction during the session if necessary.
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- Relaxation/Aid sleep
- Pain relief
- Stiffness
