We spend most of our day sitting or doing some activities that may cause our muscles to feel tired, overworked, fatigue, and weak. Sometimes, tension that we hold on to may not manifest itself until we reach our body’s threshold to handle day-to-day activities. Taking care of our body with regular stretching, strengthening, and massage therapy can increase our body’s awareness for movement, balance, and health.

Our muscles work in an agonist and antagonistic system, when one muscle contracts, there is another pair of muscle that relaxes, for example, biceps and triceps. When your biceps are flexed, your triceps relaxes. Massage therapy works to strip out muscles that are continuously contracting and to encourage blood flow.

Previous surgery can leave scar tissue which can cause residual pain and limit range of motion, receiving regular massage therapy can help to reduce pain from scar tissue and may help to increase mobility or flexibility.

Chiropractic treatments allow patients to return to their activity of daily living sooner, as well as, managing acute, and chronic pain.

Harvest Pointe Chiropractic and Integrative Health Centre uses evidence-based treatments and provide exceptional patient care in Edmonton, AB.

Our clinic offers many types of massage depending on your needs:

• Deep Tissue: This massage technique uses slower, more-forceful strokes to target the deeper layers of muscle and connective tissue, commonly to help with muscle damage from injuries.
• Sports massage: This type of massage focuses on people involved in sport activities to help prevent or treat injuries.
• Trigger point massage: This type of massage focuses on areas of tight muscle fibers that can form in your muscles after injuries or overuse. By working on active trigger points, the therapist addresses residual pain, referral pain, and range of motion limitations.
• Prenatal massage: we offer this type of massage for women who are pregnant and looking for relief from back and pelvic pain, which are common during pregnancy.

There are many benefits that come with getting a massage, some of these benefits include:

• Decreasing patient stress while increasing their relaxation
• Minimizing the patient’s pain and muscle soreness and trying to remove any tension they have built up
• Improving the body’s circulation, energy, and alertness
• Reducing the patient’s heart rate and blood pressure

While attending chiropractic college, chiropractors spend an excessive amount in the anatomy lab, dissecting and studying from cadavers. Did you know both of our chiropractors studied at the Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College? It is well known for its exceptional anatomy labs and one of only 10 institutions designated as a school of anatomy courses.

Along with intensive academic studies, chiropractors spend many hours perfecting their skills in spinal manipulation, mobilization, soft tissue manipulation, and rehabilitation in the technique lab.

Chiropractors are also trained to take and read x-ray images, or radiographs.

• Anxiety
• Fibromyalgia
• Digestive disorders
• Insomnia
• Headaches
• Lower back pain
• Nerve pain
• Myofascial pain syndrome
• Strains, sprains
• Injuries
• Upper back pain
• Neck pain

Massage therapy is great in conjunction with other therapies including chiropractic and acupuncture. For the most part, it does not matter whether patients get a massage before or after their other therapies. What matters is that the patient is comfortable, relax, informed, and an active participant their treatment plan.

It is often recommended that patients get a massage once or twice a month for relaxation purposes as well as to maintain a low-stress level. However, if you are getting massage therapy for other reasons including injuries, you may need to go in for a massage more often, depending on your treatment plan.