What to Expect During a Massage Treatment:
Before your first treatment, you will fill out a thorough medical history. This information, as well as any conversation between you and your therapist, will remain confidential. Your case history will be reviewed and an assessment may be done. Assessment can include postural assessment, range of motion testing and/or orthopaedic testing. This helps us determine the best focus for treatment. From our discussion and assessment a treatment plan will be established. This plan can be changed at any time. Following the treatment we will discuss self-care and remedial exercises. This will allow you to continue the healing process at home. Before each following treatment we will discuss your goals and concerns. We will revise our plan, review remedial exercises and self-care as needed.

What to expect with a Shiatsu treatment:
In Zen Shiatsu theory every organ in the body has an energy pathway that runs along the torso, arms, and legs. This gives the advantage of working to help any local discomfort and also balancing the energy of specific organs distally as well. You remain fully clothed, so come prepared with comfortable, loose clothing. Verbal contact is kept with you at all times to ensure the pressure is comfortable for your needs.

Who should get massage?
Massage can help persons of any age from newborns to senior citizens.
Massage is able to:
~ reduce stress and enhance relaxation
~ decrease inflammation and swelling
~ decrease adhesions from scars or injury to allow more range of motion
~ decrease muscle spasm, relax sore and achy muscles
~ relieve headaches, ease neck and back pain, aid in correcting improper posture
~ aid with injury rehabilitation, examples: sprains, strains and contusions
~ alleviate repetitive and chronic discomforts including: tendonitis

How often should you get a massage?
Some people believe that one treatment is enough. However, most of our aches and pains have been developing over many years and often take several treatments to correct and affect the tissues. Through discussion with your therapist, a program will be established that fits your physical needs and lifestyle.

Who pays for massage?
After your treatment you will pay for your massage with cash, cheque, mastercard, visa or debit. You will receive a receipt with the therapists name and registration number which you can then submit to extended health insurance company (you may require a doctors note). If you do not have extended coverage you can keep the receipts and apply a portion of them to the medical portion of your income taxes for the next year.