About Loretta’s Therapeutic Massage
What is Therapeutic Massage
Meet Your Therapist
What is Therapeutic Massage
A therapeutic massage means you bring to a massage therapist a specific complaint. It may be pain in your hip, tight shoulders, or a spasm in your lower back (or even all three). This therapist will then follow the next four steps:
1. Assess your current condition. This includes taking a health history, asking how long you have experienced the pain, whether the onset was sudden, how you experience the pain, etc. You will also observed in the way you move, test your range of motion, and feel the tissue during the treatment for consistency and texture.
2. Propose a plan. Once I have a good idea of your condition, I will propose an approach to treatment. This might be a simple as focusing on your area of complaint — shoulders, lower back and right hip — instead of trying to do a full-body massage during one session. A recommendation of a series of sessions with an indication of the kind of progress can be expected during that time. If appropriate, I will recommend other ways of treating the area, such as using heat, ice, hydrotherapy, or stretches, and if needed I will refer you to another health professional for further assessment and treatment.
3. Perform the therapy. This is the actual massage, or treatment, based on the assessment and the plan you have agreed to.
4. Evaluate the outcome. At the end of the treatment, you and I will review the results. Is the pain less? Is there more mobility in the joint? Has your posture improved? On the basis of the results, then we can discuss additional sessions and the frequency. If you come every week, for instance, you’ll see quicker progress than if you wait two or three weeks between sessions. An evaluation will take place at the end of each session to determine the continued course of therapy.
It may sound very involved, but as an experienced therapist I can do the assessment and propose a plan quickly. I have the ability to assess your condition and create positive change within your system. I have had success with Frozen Shoulder, TMJ, Sciatic nerve impingement and many other conditions.
Please contact me if you have any questions about your health care.
A therapeutic massage means you bring to a massage therapist a specific complaint. It may be pain in your hip, tight shoulders, or a spasm in your lower back (or even all three). This therapist will then follow the next four steps:
1. Assess your current condition. This includes taking a health history, asking how long you have experienced the pain, whether the onset was sudden, how you experience the pain, etc. You will also observed in the way you move, test your range of motion, and feel the tissue during the treatment for consistency and texture.
2. Propose a plan. Once I have a good idea of your condition, I will propose an approach to treatment. This might be a simple as focusing on your area of complaint — shoulders, lower back and right hip — instead of trying to do a full-body massage during one session. A recommendation of a series of sessions with an indication of the kind of progress can be expected during that time. If appropriate, I will recommend other ways of treating the area, such as using heat, ice, hydrotherapy, or stretches, and if needed I will refer you to another health professional for further assessment and treatment.
3. Perform the therapy. This is the actual massage, or treatment, based on the assessment and the plan you have agreed to.
4. Evaluate the outcome. At the end of the treatment, you and I will review the results. Is the pain less? Is there more mobility in the joint? Has your posture improved? On the basis of the results, then we can discuss additional sessions and the frequency. If you come every week, for instance, you’ll see quicker progress than if you wait two or three weeks between sessions. An evaluation will take place at the end of each session to determine the continued course of therapy.
It may sound very involved, but as an experienced therapist I can do the assessment and propose a plan quickly. I have the ability to assess your condition and create positive change within your system. I have had success with Frozen Shoulder, TMJ, Sciatic nerve impingement and many other conditions.
Please contact me if you have any questions about your health care.
Meet Your Therapist
Loretta Rodney – MOT/RMT/Graston Specialist
Massage therapy has been a passion of mine for more than 11yrs. I began my journey to become a Massage therapist in 2008 and have never looked back. I have found myself with the desire to continually learn and grow in my profession in such a way that I can evaluate, treat and educate the persons that come to see and request my help.
The Right Education to Succeed
As an MH Vicars graduate, I was able to receive education that went above and beyond. This school’s mandate is to create skilled health care professionals who are able to treat a wide range of conditions, and work closely with their patients to help them on their wellness journeys and that is what you will find here.
Their curriculum meets the highest Canadian massage therapy education standards and these are the standards that I strive for with each person that comes to me for health care.
My constant desire to learn has given me new and exciting ways to treat my patients. I utilize passive and active stretching on the table, use the natural science of the body to increase flexibility and create more mobility to the system. Myofascial work to help open up the body’s systems so that it can “breath” again.
The Manual Osteopathic College of Canada offered an in depth look at
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Osteo-articular structures and fascia mobilizations
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Mobility and motility of organs
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Involuntary mechanisms ( manual lymph drainage, cranial sacral fluid )
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Advanced myofascial remodelling
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Muscle Energy techniques
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Proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation
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Visceral manipulation