Services offered at Oregon Clinical Massage

Clinical Massage, Massage Therapy, and Spa Treatments:

The following prices are based on discounts from UCR fees, given for payment at the time of service and for the option of using our standard visit note procedures. For a full description of our billing policies and an explanation of the differences in service levels between medical massage and self-referred bodywork, please click here. All services offered at Oregon Clinical Massage are for therapeutic purposes.

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Massage Therapy & Spa Treatments:

Massage Therapy: Relaxation Massage, Spa Massage, The One-Hour Bliss-Out. Think candles and quiet and hearing your own thoughts. This is an incredibly relaxing way to spend an hour, forgetting about your stresses and your worries, and getting in contact with your felt sense.

Prenatal Massage: The Bliss-Out with special accomodations. Massage is safe and helpful during any stage of pregnancy. We will use our super-comfortable body cushions, which are designed to position and support you on the table and accomodate the two of you in happy-mama style. Those aches and pains that you think you have to live with as your body changes can be reduced or even eliminated with massage therapy.

Raindrop Therapy: A delightful combination of aromatherapy with vita-flex foot and spine reflexology and massage techniques. We use therapeutic grade essential oils, applied neat (undiluted). It is a very relaxing, invigorating experience which will leave you feeling and smelling great all day.

Thai Massage : A gentle, non-invasive, effortless workout performed in loose clothing on a large mat. For anyone who has had Thai Massage before, the procedures will be familiar, but by adding Western neuromuscular re-education techniques you will experience an amazingly painless improvement in you muscular range of motion as well as experiencing the depth of inner peace and heightened energy that this discipline is noted for. For those of you who have never had a Thai massage it is the full body, sweat-free workout that you only dreamed of having! All benefits above are included!

Clinical Massage Therapy: Corrective techniques. These require client/therapist interaction and are performed with the intention of improving function and decreasing pain. Manual Therapies currently available at Oregon Clinical Massage include: Trigger Point Therapy, Deep Tissue Massage, Myofascial Release, Postural Alignment, Pelvic Stabilization, Positional Release, Muscle-Energy Techniques, CranioSacral Therapy. A Clinical Massage Therapy treatment session will probably include several of the above, and which ones we use will be determined by your presenting concerns at the time of service.

Trigger Point Therapy: Trigger points can form in muscles which have been overused or injured. They feel like nodules or taut bands of fibers within the soft tissues. They can present themselves as referred patterns of sensation like sharp pain, tingling, dull ache, pins and needles, heat, or cold, or they can create symptoms like nausea, blurred vision, ear ache, or disturbance of equilibrium. It is very common to attribute the discomfort of tight muscles and trigger points to arthritis. Often times pain is felt at a remote site, and treatment of the pain site will not bring relief. But trigger points have a generally predictable pain referral pattern, so it is often a simple task to relieve the pain if these patterns are known. Releasing trigger points can release endorphins, so there may be a feeling of being energized as well as relief from pain.

Deep Tissue Massage: Contrary to popular belief, deep tissue massage doesn't mean "push really hard". Deep tissue massage focuses on deeper layers of tissue using joint mobilization, pin-and-stretch techniques, slow movements, deep finger pressure, and cross-fiber friction. It helps to break up and eliminate scar tissue, creating greater ease of movement. It can also aid in releasing toxins from muscle tissues and release constrictions that are causing blood-flow to be decreased in contracted areas.

Myofascial Release: There is an interconnected web of tissue which wraps and supports each structure in the body. This is the fascia. When it is functioning correctly, it allows for ease of movement and unrestricted tissue glide. Myofascial release therapy aims to free restrictions in the fascial network, to allow for the tension on bones, joints, muscles and tendons to be released. Scar tissue, or adhesive tissue, can form around the area of an injury, effectively splinting an area to prevent further injury. This is as it should be. But eventually the tissues don't need to be immobilized any longer, and these immobilizations may cause pain at the site of injury or postural imbalances which can lead to more generalized pain in other areas of the body. Myofascial release therapy is a very effective way to restore natural movement.

Postural Alignment: This work seeks to align and balance the body by lengthening and repositioning the fascia, identifying and releasing postural mis-alignments, and bringing the body into cooperation with gravity. You don't need to have been in an accident to benefit from postural alignment. The body becomes more flexible, more coordinated, and athletic performance is improved.

Pelvic Stabilization: Concentrates on the structures which affect the pelvis. By taking you through a series of tests to determine the tissues which are causing restrictions, and then by treating the restrictions, the pelvic structures can move naturally into better alignment. This can help alleviate pain and postural issues.

Positional Release Therapy: This is a very simple, indirect manual therapy technique. It is painless, and can be done safely even when there is inflammation, which makes it an excellent choice for treatment even a few days after most injuries. This therapy is incorporated into Integrative Manual Therapy (IMT). More information on Positional Release and Strain/Counterstrain is available here.

Muscle Energy Techniques: A large number of techniques fall into this category including Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation (PNF), Post-Isometric Relaxation (PIR), Reciprocal Inhibition (RI), Hold/Relax and Contract/Relax techniques, Manual Resistance Techniques (MRT), Active Isolated Stretching (AIS), Facilitated Stretching. Essentially, what is required is that the client uses his or her strength against therapist resistance for a short period of time to allow certain cells within the muscles and connective tissue to reset their length. Muscle Energy Techniques can be very gentle or more agressive, and can be adjusted for use at any stage of the healing process. We are currently developing a way to incorporate deep oxygenating breathing with these techniques, and are seeing amazing results with it.

CranioSacral Therapy: An extremely gentle approach to improving the function of the central nervous system. It has been shown to bolster resistance to disease, and to be effective in dealing with a wide range of medical problems associated with pain and dysfunction, such as migraines, scoliosis, learning disabilities, balance issues, chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, autism, post-traumatic stress disorder, emotional difficulties, infantile disorders, central nervous system disorders, chronic neck and back pain, and temporomandibular joint syndrome (TMJ). Because it is so gentle, it is appropriate for early stages of injury recovery.