Massage is a natural therapy with both physical and psychological benefits. It works on many levels and can greatly speed recovery because of its wide ranging effects. There are many different techniques within massage therapy and I use these extensively, including Muscle Energy Techniques, Positional Release Technique, Deep Tissue Release, to name a few.
However, I am intuitive holistic worker. When I am treating a patient, I am guided by my hands and not my head. I was once asked by a spiritualist, ‘When you are working, I feel you could walk out of the room and leave your hands to do the needful. Is this right?’ My answer to this was ‘Yes!’
My hands often pick up areas that the patient hasn’t stated verbally during consultation as being problematic, but when I begin working in such areas they exclaim ‘how did you know I had a pain just there?!?!’ It is only when they experience the increased range of movement and the loss of stress in these areas after they’ve had the treatment, do they realise how much they had changed their life to accommodate the pain.
