Under Pressure Therapy

Stretching and movement are important components of a comprehensive wellness program, including massage therapy. When combined, they can offer numerous benefits to improve overall health and wellbeing. Stretching helps to increase flexibility, range of motion, and circulation, which can improve mobility, reduce muscle tension and stiffness, and prevent injury. It is particularly beneficial for individuals who have sedentary jobs or spend long periods of time sitting or standing in one position. Stretching can also help to alleviate pain and improve posture. Massage, on the other hand, can help to relax tense muscles, improve circulation, and reduce pain and stress. Massage therapy can also improve the range of motion and flexibility of the joints. By combining massage with stretching, individuals can experience the benefits of both therapies, resulting in an even greater improvement in their physical health and well-being. Additionally, regular stretching and movement can help to preve...

Learn more about Under Pressure Therapy What is Delayed Onset of Muscle Soreness (DOMS) Delayed onset muscle soreness (DOMS) is a frequent problem after unaccustomed exercise and/or eccentric exercise. Massage is a form of 'passive' exercise as the therapist does most of the work. Although it is passive, there is still muscle activation, increased blood flow, release of toxins including lactic acid and free radicals, and there are many neurological responses. Massage can be beneficial to reduce the symptoms of exercise induced DOMS but stimulating remedial techniques such as deep tissue and trigger point massage can also cause DOMS, especially if massage is unfamiliar to you. During a remedial massage, the therapist creates muscle damage and micro-tears in the muscle tissue when using deep tissue techniques. This can cause pain during the massage which is beneficial to your treatment, and it can also cause massage induced DOMS. Massage induced DOMS is very normal to experien...

Learn more about Under Pressure Therapy Myofascial is referring to muscle (myo) and fascia. Fascia to muscles, is like the casing of a sausage. Each individual muscle and muscle group has fascia surrounding it. Sometimes if you only treat the muscle tissue, without releasing the fascia, the muscle can only release as much as the fascia will allow. If however, fascial tension is released, it allows the muscle to release a lot easier as there is no tightness or restriction around muscle. A lot of tension and pain in your body can stem from tightness, scarring and trauma in your fascia, and fascia is everywhere! The largest piece of fascia runs from your toes, through your plantar fascia, up the backside of your whole body, and anchors into your eye socket near the eyebrows.  Myofascial release techniques are aimed at anchoring one part of the fascia and stretching the fascia into the direction of restriction. As fascia is throughout the whole body, pressure differs depending on what ...

Learn more about Under Pressure Therapy First of all, massage does not need to hurt to be beneficial. Different techniques, and different therapists can alter the amount of pressure to achieve healing results A general rule is that a therapist can easily apply less pressure but may struggle to apply more pressure for sustained periods of time. But why does massage hurt so good, and why do you keep going back for the pain? The physiology behind why pain is therapeutic is this: During a deep tissue or trigger point massage, the massage therapist is actually creating muscle damage, the same as when you go to the gym. Micro-tears in the muscle tissue can cause pain, but this is a catalyst for muscle repair and positive adaptations in the tissues. When pain receptors in your body are triggered, they also recruit a lot of chemicals and cells in the body to help with the speed of healing. So, although the therapist is inflicting pain, contrary to belief, we are not sadistic, but we are aware ...

Deep tissue massage Learn more about Under Pressure Therapy Like Ogres, we too have LAYERS. The musculoskeletal system is an intricate array of many muscles working together to achieve functional movement. There are many contingency plans in place so that if a nerve, vessel or muscle is compromised, there is a back-up in place to carry out the function (albeit not as well). This leads to many layers of muscles🦵🏽 Sometimes the affected muscle may lay beneath multiple other muscles in the region, and this is when deep tissue massage (DTM) is required to get to the "deep" muscles, fascia and connective tissues. The idea is to apply firm pressure, and use SLOW strokes. The faster you go, the more it hurts 😧 because the surrounding muscles try to contract and don't allow you to go deep.. Watch the 🎥  of goop, representing how the slower and more gentle your strokes are, the more the body will allow you to get into the deeper muscles Learn more about Under Pressure Therapy

How does Triger Point therapy work? Learn more about Under Pressure Therapy Manual trigger point (TrP) therapy aims to interrupt the chemical messengers that are causing the muscle to constantly contract. Therapy involves locating the knot, and applying pressure to it, stopping the blood flow to the muscle under the point of pressure. The pressure applied to the knot, and the lack of blood flow to the muscle causes pain that can be both localised (under the pressure point) and referred (pain travelling away from the pressure point to another area of the body). When the muscle is under stress, it sends out chemical messages to recruit repairing cells. When the pressure is released, fresh blood rushes into the muscle delivering these repairing cells, and forces out the toxins that were in the muscles (e.g. lactic acid and inflammatory chemicals). Slowly the muscle starts to relax and the knot reduces in size.  The art of manual TrP therapy is knowing how much pressure to use, how lon...