Sport Therapy Treatment    $75 or $250 (4 Treatments)

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Naturally Effective Pain Relief

Our Sport Therapy treatments use several healing modalities, ancient and modern to bring you relief. These treatments are 75 minutes long and incorporate acupuncture, specialized stretching, Chinese medical massage, hot packs, and liniments. By the time you leave you feel like you had an acupuncture treatment, physical therapy session, and massage all in one.

We recommend a series of four treatments to begin your journey toward painlessness. This gives the body time to respond to treatment, and helps establish a new message in your muscle memory. Depending on the severity of the disease you may need more of these treatments, or you may be able to return for community or one hour treatments.

Muscle Motor Point needling. Sending a new message.

In addition to using traditional acupuncture points to bring your health into balance, Sport Therapy treatments incorporate Muscle Motor Point needling, a modern technique.

Muscle Motor Point needling was developed based on principles established by Dr. Irving Kor. Contracture of muscles occurs when an area of the body has suffered tissue damage. This contracture is the body's natural attempt to protect itself. Because the muscle is contracted, the central nervous system perceives a change in the way it is taking up space in relation to the muscles around it. In order to examine this new information the central nervous system isolates the muscle by contracting it. The original tissue damage, combined with the body's efforts to isolate and protect the tissues leads to chronic contracture and pain.

All muscles have an area where there is communication with the central nervous system. These are the motor points. When we stimulate these areas with acupuncture needles we essentially reset the relationship between the central nervous system, the muscle, and the nerve. This is not unlike re-booting a computer.

Often when the muscle point is stimulated you will feel a little twitch and then relaxation. You won't believe how great it feels to finally have those muscles open and unravel!

Reinforcing the Relaxation Message

As part of the Sport Therapy treatment we use Muscle Stripping. By applying pressure to muscles while they go from a flexed to extended state we allow the muscles to open and relax in a way that they otherwise would not be possible.

We also incorporate Chinese Medical Massage, or Tui Na into these treatments. The techniques of Tui Na are unique in that they include movements that instigate subtle vibrations that resonate deep into the muscles and elicit broad relaxation.

Moxibustion and hot packs warm and invigorate, initiate blood flow to the area, and allow muscles to open and relax, all enhancing the healing benefits of these treatments.

The overall result is a profound change in the way your muscles feel and ultimately pain relief.

What can Sport Therapy treat?

We use Sport Therapy treatments to treat a variety of pain complaints. These treatments are particularly useful whenever chronic pain and muscle tightness have set in. We use Sport Therapy anywhere on the body where muscle tightness is possible; back, shoulder, elbow, knee, hip, feet, wrists. These treatments are useful no matter what your western medicine diagnosis is. We can treat pain from degenerative joint disease, fibromyalgia, arthritis, and many more.