Massage Therapy at Gold Coast Chiropractic Centre

This type of therapy focuses on the deeper muscles, with the goal of relieving severe tension for people with chronic persistent pain, those who have sustained an injury, or those with heavy physical stresses.

This intensive therapy targets chronic muscle tension below the superficial layers of muscle. Whilst relaxation techniques may assist the superficial layers, they will not relieve the underlying problems, which is where deep tissue therapy comes in.

Deep muscle techniques involve a slow stroke and friction motion across the muscle. Massage therapists will use their fingers, thumbs, hands, knuckles, forearms and elbows, depending on the area and pressure required. Deep tissue is therapeutic and targets a particular muscle or muscle group. Afterwards, patients may experience some localised muscular aches for 1-2 days.

Remedial massage, as the name indicates, is used to remedy a problem and help the body return to normal function and movement – it’s not a caressing rub of your back.

This therapy is used to correct a range of injuries where the skin is intact. The technique increases the blood and lymph in the injured areas, clearing blockages, moving damaged cells, and releasing scar tissue and adhesions left after an injury or prolonged damage.

Your therapist may utilise this technique for damage caused by overuse of certain muscle groups, to speed recovery after exercise or acute injury, to help with long-standing back and compound injuries that haven’t responded to other modalities, and as a preventive tool to keep muscles working optimally.

This technique is designed to assess, address and rehabilitate physical pain and dysfunction anywhere in the body, in the same way a physio works. Using manual therapies including cupping, strapping and taping, corrective exercises and neuro flossing, our myotherapist conducts a movement assessment to determine how the body is moving and why it’s not moving optimally. Then it helps to correct it with specific therapies and rehab exercises.

This therapy helps release trigger points in the fascia – those tight knots you feel, particularly in the deep layers of tissue.

This therapy helps improve blood flow to specific areas of discomfort or dysfunction, speeding the healing process and providing relief.