Registered Massage Therapy
At Healthy Spirit Fitness, every massage therapy session is highly personalized to help you achieve your health care goals in the most comfortable most effective manner possible.
We start every session with a check-in to see how you felt after the last treatment, how things have progressed since, and if you have any new issues. We then establish and agree upon our goals and areas of treatment for the current session.
Treatments can combine any number of techniques and modalities including:
- Swedish Massage Techniques
- Active Release
- Myofascial Release
- Relaxation Techniques
- Joint Mobilizations
- Deep Tissue **Please see note below**
- Remedial Stretch or Strengthening Exercise Instruction
- Breathing Technique Instruction
- Guided Imagery
- Lymphatic Drainage
The College of Massage Therapist of Ontario defines massage therapy as the manipulation of soft tissues of the body including muscles, connective tissue, tendons, ligaments and joints. Massage therapy is a clinically-oriented healthcare option that helps alleviate the discomfort associated with every day occupational stresses, muscular over-use and many chronic pain conditions.
Massage therapy should only be provided by a Registered Massage Therapist (RMT). An RMT is a primary healthcare provider in Ontario, regulated under the RHPA (Regulated health Professionals Act) just like your doctors, dentists, chiropractors, etc...
Massage Therapy can be an important part of both your physical and mental health maintenance plan. This is true for everyone - children, teens, adults, and seniors. Massage Therapy can prove beneficial to many conditions including but not limited to:
- Anxiety, Depression, Stress, Grief, PTSD
- Headaches/Migraines
- Sprains/Strains
- Sports injuries and maintenance
- Arthritis
- Fibromyalgia
- Scoliosis
Contact Us to book your appointment today!
Once your appointment is booked you can purchase it here or in person when you arrive. *HST will be added to all purchases at checkout.
**Deep Tissue - In over 20 years of practice as an RMT, Deborah Gurash is very aware it is simply NOT necessary to induce pain to get results (99% of the time). Any deep treatment deemed necessary by the therapist, is done in stages. Deborah works through the superficial layers of tissue first, gradually working deeper, as the body allows. In this way, as deeper treatment is not forced (by jumping straight in with knuckles and elbows, for example), the massage should still feel quite gentle and relaxing. Don't be fooled though, this is by design and positive results will be realized.