Thank you Rory for the great shoulder and low back work! It helped a great deal. You are a great massage therapist and I will recommend you to anyone.
-Kittie K.-
My back muscles were giving me so much pain, I was having spasms. I'd increased the number and intensity of the core muscle-building exercises I have to do since having two-thirds of my spine reconstructed and fused, but the muscles weren't ready for it and locked up. Even stopping the extra exercise didn't help. Rory's deep tissue massage really got those muscles loosened up. It required firm pressure, and I was hurting so much that I risked having pain from that, too. But even this morning my pain is gone. I was so distracted by the back pain that I didn't even realize how taut my leg muscles were, but when he worked on them, too, I could feel how tight they were. It's really good to be relaxed all over.
-Yvonne M.-
-Kittie K.-
My back muscles were giving me so much pain, I was having spasms. I'd increased the number and intensity of the core muscle-building exercises I have to do since having two-thirds of my spine reconstructed and fused, but the muscles weren't ready for it and locked up. Even stopping the extra exercise didn't help. Rory's deep tissue massage really got those muscles loosened up. It required firm pressure, and I was hurting so much that I risked having pain from that, too. But even this morning my pain is gone. I was so distracted by the back pain that I didn't even realize how taut my leg muscles were, but when he worked on them, too, I could feel how tight they were. It's really good to be relaxed all over.
-Yvonne M.-
About Myself
My Wife and I near Park City, Utah. Oct. 2011
My name is Rory Adams. I am the owner of Beyond Basic Massage. I have been a Licensed Massage Therapist since January of 2005. For the last 7+ years I have worked in several types of massage settings including; resorts, spas, and day spas. One of my favorite was working in Park City, Utah, a well known ski town. I spent a lot of my time there working on skiers who had various injuries. Through my experience in these different settings, I have learned what I expect from a massage company and from a therapist. Today in my personal practice, I strive to exceed my own high expectations. I currently practice in Tucson, Arizona. I love it here. I'm excited and blessed to be working with Dr. Charles Spear of HealthQuest Chiropractic. I am nationally certified in massage therapy with The Federation of State Massage Therapy Boards and am currently licensed in both Utah and Arizona.
About Massage
Stress
Experts estimate that 80 percent to 90 percent of disease is stress-related. Massage and bodywork is there to combat that frightening number by helping us remember what it means to relax. The physical changes massage brings to your body can have a positive effect in many areas of your life. Besides increasing relaxation and decreasing anxiety, massage lowers your blood pressure, increases circulation, improves recovery from injury, helps you to sleep better and can increase your concentration. It reduces fatigue and gives you more energy to handle stressful situations.
Massage is a perfect elixir for good health, but it can also provide an integration of body and mind. By producing a meditative state or heightened awareness of living in the present moment, massage can provide emotional and spiritual balance, bringing with it true relaxation and peace.
The incredible benefits of massage are doubly powerful if taken in regular "doses." Dr. Maria Hernandez-Reif, from the Touch Research Institute (TRI) at the University of Miami, is known for her massage research, along with colleague Tiffany Field. Together, they and other researchers have done outstanding work proving the value of massage. While their studies have shown we can benefit from massage even in small doses (15 minutes of chair massage or a half-hour table session), Hernandez-Reif says they know from their research that receiving bodywork 2-3 times a week is highly beneficial. And if we lived in a fantasy world, Hernandez-Reif has the answer. "I feel a daily massage is optimal."
It's undoubtedly a wonderful thing when your therapist begins unwinding those stress-tightened muscles, and your day's troubles begin to fade away. But it's the cherry on top to know this "medicine" only gets better with frequency.
The Benefits of Massage
In an age of technical and, at times, impersonal medicine, massage offers a drug-free, non-invasive and humanistic approach based on the body's natural ability to heal itself. So what exactly are the benefits to receiving regular massage and/or bodywork treatments?
- Increases circulation, allowing the body to pump more oxygen and nutrients into tissues and vital organs.
- Stimulates the flow of lymph, the body's natural defense system, against toxic invaders. For example, in breast cancer patients, massage has been shown to increase the cells that fight cancer.
- Increased circulation of blood and lymph systems improves the condition of the body's largest organ - the skin.
- Relaxes and softens injured and overused muscles
- Reduces spasms and cramping
- Increases joint flexibility.
- Reduces recovery time, helps prepare for strenuous workouts and eliminates subsequent pains of the athlete at any level.
- Releases endorphins - the body's natural painkiller - and is being used in chronic illness, injury and recovery from surgery to control and relieve pain.
- Reduces post-surgery adhesions and edema and can be used to reduce and realign scar tissue after healing has occurred.
- Improves range-of-motion and decreases discomfort for patients with low back pain.
- Relieves pain for migraine sufferers and decreases the need for medication.
- Provides exercise and stretching for atrophied muscles and reduces shortening of the muscles for those with restricted range of motion.
- Assists with shorter labor for expectant mothers, as well as less need for medication, less depression and anxiety, and shorter hospital stays.
Information taken from Massagetherapy.com