Pace West PT offers you a team of highly skilled, experienced and caring massage therapists. Enjoy the multitude of health/wellness benefits of massage as a stand alone treatment or benefit from the integration of massage therapy into your physical therapy treatment plan. Massage sessions take place in a quiet, restorative, and private massage therapy room.
Our highly trained body workers perform a combination of modalities:
- Orthopedic medical massage
- Sports injury or recovery
- Neuromuscular therapy
- Deep tissue work
- Myofascial release
- Active isolated stretching
- Trigger point therapy
- Swedish
When you choose to pair massage with your physical therapy treatment plan, have the comfort of knowing that your physical therapist and your massage therapist will have ongoing communication about your recovery and plan of care.. Massage therapy done before or after PT interventions such as dry needling, joint manipulation and/or corrective exercise can help hard wire the changes into your system.
There are many health (physical and emotional) benefits of massage therapy:
- Increased awareness of one’s own body and its needs
- Greater energy
- Better sleep quality
- Reduced muscle tension/stiffness
- Decreased levels of cortisol (stress hormone)
- Relieves tension headache
- Lower levels of cytokines (molecules that play a role in inflammation)
- Helps maximize post-operative recovery
- Speed healing time post injury from recreation, work or auto accidents
- Helps maximize post-operative recovery
Our massage therapy services are cash based services only and are not covered by your private health insurance. However, massage therapy may be covered by workman’s compensation or Med Pay (auto insurance).