Bodywork

Body work may be one of the most overlooked aspects of health and fitness in society today.    Bodywork is a practice of fine tuning and repairing postural muscle groups as well as those used for day to day activities.    Body work is often passed over for more standardized or main stream methods of treatment, such as chiropractics or medical pain prescriptions, when massage and body work will easily alleviate the root cause of pain or stress.

The concept of body work/massage addresses the body as a whole in assessing specific muscles and groups that are overworked, stressed and seized; then treating them in sequence to relieve stress and pain found either in the immediate region or a referred area elsewhere on the body.    Examples of this include shoulder and mid back pain that stems from a chest that is overworked and pulled tight from sitting at a desk  working with computers.   A poor work related posture causes the shoulders to round forward and stress is placed on the mid back muscles.   By releasing the chest, the back is allowed to return to a natural position and is no longer stressed and painful.   Bodywork often includes techniques of myo-facial release, neuromuscular re-education, resistive range-of-motion and other specific techniques to re-educate both muscles, fascia, ligaments and tendons.