You don’t know what you don’t know.
For example, when you’re paying for a deep tissue massage, you want your massage therapist to have the skill set to differentiate tight muscles from muscles that are underperforming.
Most licensed massage therapists assume muscles are tight. For the first seven years of my twenty-nine years as a licensed massage therapist, I couldn’t confirm whether a muscle was tight or underperforming.
Licensed massage therapists aren’t the only practitioners who don’t have the skill set to confirm whether a muscle is tight or underperforming.Meanwhile, the underperforming muscles aren’t capable of pulling their weight.
That’s why you feel that your muscles are constantly tight.
Case in point, when piriformis syndrome is the diagnosis, the piriformis often feels tight. Yet, more often than not, the piriformis and the obturator internus are underperforming. (See videos below)
• Until your brain recognizes certain muscles are capable of functioning to the
best of their ability, your muscles will tighten to protect you from injury.
Rinse, repeat.
Why The Feel-Good Feelings of Deep Tissue Massage Are Short-Lived
When you walked away from the massage table, muscles weren’t performing their role to the best of their ability. So, of course, your muscles tightened all over again.If you decide to work with me, you’ll see how emphasizing one muscle over all the surrounding muscles gets to the root cause of pain and muscle tightness.
Rick Merriam addresses an underperforming trapezius muscle with a deep-tissue massage technique that improves the communication between the brain and muscle.
* Two hours of hands-on muscle therapy ~ 295
** Package of 2 sessions (four hours) ~ 560
*** Package of 3 sessions (six hours) ~ 712 (best seller)
Package pricing ranges from 560 (2) to 2710 (12)
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