Tui Na Massage is an ancient Chinese therapy used to address the way muscles and ligaments relate to the skeletal bone structure. In other words, the muscles and ligaments pull on the bones; if the muscles are tight, they pull the bones of the skeleton, maligning the structure slightly. Tui Na Massage can be extremely useful to loosen the soft tissue before seeing your chiropractor.
This massage modality uses a combination of both eastern and western techniques, such as acupressure, moving energy through the meridians to lubricate and manipulate the joints, and various physical muscle manipulation to the tissue, such as kneading, friction, pulling, rocking, rotating, gliding, and vibrations. These techniques are very similar to deep tissue massage, but the combination of unblocking the energy flow with the physical manipulation greatly increases the effects in a shorter time.
Tui Na is especially constructive and efficient in treating aliments such as:
- sciatica
- arthritis
- muscle spasms (including muscle spasms cause from disc problems)
- frozen shoulder
- rotator cuff problems
- tendinitis
- stress related problems
- TMD
- headaches
- back pain
- neck pain
- IT band problems
- SI joint
- plantar fasciitis
- carpel tunnel
- tennis elbow
- and much more.
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