Our approach

You will get so much more than just a massage at Ashby & Associates Massage Therapy. At our clinic we treat postural related disability in four steps:

1. Assessment

An assessment helps us to:

• analyze posture and movement patterns
• identify limitations
• map joint position
• list muscles which have been elongated or shortened, either of which will make them tense, weak, and predisposed to injury.

2. Strategic treatment

Strategically focused massage therapy breaks down fascial adhesions, allowing you to stretch. Muscular facilitation restores movement and function.

3. Assignment

We tailor exercises for you, with instruction on how to stretch the fascial system and reclaim use of the released postural muscles.

Fascial^_1 stretching:

• requires positional exactitude;
• duration dictated by response; requires mental focus, and patience.

Core body strength:

• reconnects your mind to the core muscles, and facilitates their function.

4. Revision

Posture is habitual, and like any habit, it takes time and dedication to unlearn bad habits, and establish sound practices. We monitor your progress with the exercises and make corrections in order to achieve the best results.

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Footnotes

1. Fascia provides structure, and organization; surrounding all organs and muscles, it holds them together as a unit, and separates them into parts. Lacking contractile units (as in muscle) fascia adjusts length and shape slowly over time.