Rob Reider(CMT) is a certified massage therapist with the American massage Therapy Association. His treatments are designed to remove stagnation, promote healing and well being. He offers one hour and one and one half hour treatments. Owing to his many years of experience in the healing arts, Rob’s techniques are effective and produce powerful results. A session will leave you feeling grounded, deeply relaxed, refreshed and rejuvenated. Services offered at your home or my office. This is a professional, high quality, safe and satisfying treatment. Experience the effects of natural, safe energy balancing free with each treatment.


Call Rob Reider for your appointment 616-299-3371 or schedule and pay for your massage online.

Benefits of massage

• Strengthen the immune system
• Accelerate the elimination of metabolic by-products and toxins, such as lactic-acid build-up
• Relieve anxiety and depression
• Reduce elevated blood pressure
• Relieve insomnia and headaches
• Reduce stress and induce relaxation
• Improve musculature performance
• Increase mental alertness
• Improve circulation
• Restore energy
• Reduce feelings of isolation
• Relieve muscle tension and stiffness
• Free the body of pain caused by tension and low body fluid circulation

Deep Tissue Massage

Deep Tissue Massage can be a more intensive massage with powerful results; it is done in such a way as to encourage the body not to react defensively. The depth and pressure of the work is kept within the comfort range of the client.

Massage Therapists will assess for shortened muscles and/or distorted postural patterns. The client will receive a release to the chronic patterns of tension in the body through a massage based on slow strokes and deep pressure to the contracted areas, either following or going across the fibers of the muscles, tendons and fascia. The technique unsticks the fibers of a muscle while releasing deeply-held patterns of tension, removing toxins, relaxing, and soothing the muscle.

Hot Stone Relaxation Therapy

Hot Stone Therapy is a very effective way to create harmony and a positive energy flow within the mind, body, and spirit. Black basalt stones glide over the body with the help of essential oils; the warmth from the stones relaxes and soothes all the muscles and gently melts away the knots and stresses from the your body. The heat has a sedative effect on the nervous system. The stone weight, warmth and rhythmic flow leaves you with a deep calming sensation similar to meditation. For some people, stone therapy can bring deep tissue release and alignment in body, mind and spirit. For others, it means gently allowing the heat of the stones to soften tension and melt worries away.

Treat and pamper yourself with this wonderfully nurturing, gentle, and relaxing therapy.

Massage therapy is the systematized manipulation of soft tissues for the purpose of normalizing them. Practitioners use a variety of physical methods including applying fixed or movable pressure, holding, or causing movement to the body. Therapists primarily use their hands, but may also use their forearms, elbows, or feet. The basic goal of massage therapy is to help the body heal itself and to increase health and well-being.

Touch is the core ingredient of massage therapy and also combines science and art. Practitioners learn specific techniques for massage and use their sense of touch to determine the right amount of pressure to apply to each person and locate areas of tension and other soft-tissue problems. Touch also conveys a sense of caring, an important component in the healing relationship.

When muscles are overworked, waste products such as lactic acid can accumulate in the muscle, causing soreness, stiffness, and even muscle spasm.

Massage improves circulation, which increases blood flow, bringing fresh oxygen to body tissues. This can assist the elimination of waste products, speed healing after injury, and enhance recovery from disease.

Therapeutic massage can be used to promote general well-being and enhance self-esteem, while boosting the circulatory and immune systems to benefit blood pressure, circulation, muscle tone, digestion, and skin tone. It has been incorporated into many health systems, and different massage techniques have been developed and integrated into various complementary therapies.

Basic Techniques of Swedish Massage

Traditional Swedish Massage uses five main strokes, and many variations, to achieve its relaxing and healing effects. Many therapists use a variety of techniques.

Effleurage

This consists of long, gliding strokes from the neck down to the base of the spine or from the shoulder down to the fingertips. When done on the limbs, all strokes are toward the heart to aid blood and lymphatic flow. It is done with the whole hand or the thumb pads. Effleurage is designed to acquaint the therapist with his or her subject’s body and vice versa.

Petrissage

This involves gently lifting muscles up and away from the bones, then rolling and squeezing them, again with a gentle pressure. It generally involves kneading and compression motions - rolling, squeezing, or pressing the muscles to enhance deeper circulation. Petrissage attempts to increase circulation with clearing out toxins from muscle and nerve tissue.

Friction

This is the most penetrating of the strokes, and consists of deep circular or transverse movements made with the thumb pads or fingertips. The therapist applies deep, circular movement near joints and other bony areas (such as the sides of the spine). Friction breaks down adhesions, which are knots that result when muscle fibers bind together during the healing process, thus contributing to more flexible muscles and joints.

Tapotement

This consists of a series of briskly applied percussive movements, using the hands alternately to strike or tap the muscles for an invigorating effect. There are many variations on this stroke. It may be applied with the edge of the hand, with the tips of the fingers, or with a closed fist. Tapotement attempts to release tension and cramping from muscles in spasm.

Vibration or Shaking

This involves the therapist pressing his or her hands on the back or limbs, and rapidly shaking for a few seconds. It boosts circulation and increase the power of the muscles to contact. Vibration is particularly helpful to people suffering from low-back pain.

Massage for Pain Control

Massage is a very effective technique for controlling pain. How does it work? There are number of ways massage may help in controlling pain.Massage confuses the body's pain signals.

Rubbing may interfere with pain signals' pathways to your brain, a process called the "gate control theory," according to experts. Pain impulses run toward the spinal cord and then up the cord and into the brain. It's only when they reach the brain that these impulses, are perceived as pain. When you rub, it sends other impulses along the same nerves. When all these impulses try to reach the brain through nerves, the nerves get clogged like a highway during morning rush hour. The result? Most of them won't reach the brain. And if the pain signals does not reach the brain, you won't feel pain. Thus massage works by 'closing the gate' that pain impulses have to pass through. Massage also calls up the body's natural painkillers.

It stimulates the release of endorphins, the morphine-like substances that the body manufactures, into the brain and nervous system.

Massage provides deep relaxation

It relieves muscle tension, spasm, and stiffness. All of these contribute to pain. Experts suggest that tense muscles are usually deprived of oxygen, because the tightness reduces blood circulation to the area. Massage improves blood circulation, bringing with it what the muscle needs-oxygen and other forms of nourishment. The muscle then relaxes, and pain decreases.

Massage relieves mental stress and anxiety.

Massage is providing the benefit by the therapeutic value of touching that helps a person in pain. Research shows that even touch lasting for less than 1 second has the ability to make people feel better. Obviously, an hour-long touch provided by massage has to make you feel good!

What Types of Pain Can Massage Help?

Massage can help any pain originating from muscle tension: example - head, back, neck, and shoulder pain are all can benefit from massage. Releasing tightness and tension in muscles is the most obvious effect of a good massage.

Massage also is beneficial for relieving pain associated with arthritis, injuries, or even recent surgery.



FAQ

What is massage therapy?
It is a hands-on manipulation of the soft tissues of the body including muscles, connective tissue, tendons, ligaments and joints.

How long is a massage?
One hour is standard, but one and a half hours is better.

Are there any preparations I need to make before an appointment?
It is best not to eat at least 90 minutes before a massage. Massage is similar to swimming or working out. In massage, the blood is taken away from the digestive process and directed to the massaged peripheral tissues. The result would be poor digestion and possible discomfort in the gastrointestinal tract.

What can I expect at my first appointment?
You will complete a confidential health history and sign a consent form. Your therapist will review the health history and your needs or wants to determine your treatment goals.

Must I undress for my massage?
You will be covered with a sheet so that only the area worked on will be exposed. It is your choice to undress or not. A skin to skin massage has the greatest therapeutic effect, however.

Am I expected to talk during the massage?
No, however the therapist may require verbal information pertinent to health findings during treatment.

Will the massage hurt?
Relaxation massage should not feel uncomfortable. Therapeutic massage requires the client to receive a moderate amount of discomfort within the level of the client's tolerance. Tight muscles and stiffened joints need release and, once released, the body's protective sheath from pain has been uncovered. Heat, stretching and further treatments bring a healthy change to the client's condition, resulting in greater flexibility and a more functional individual.

How quickly can you make me feel better?
Sometimes immediately. Other times it may take a number of treatments depending on the client's limitations and condition.

What can I do to speed up the healing process?
Stop the activity that is causing the discomfort. Apply heat within reasonable limits to the muscles governing the defective area and practice proper stretching techniques as set up by your therapist and yourself.

Who should avoid massage therapy?
Massage is not advised for anyone with an infectious skin desease, a rash, or an unhealed wound. Avoid massage immediately after surgery, or if you are prone to blood clots. Phlebitis or varicose veins preclude the use of massage, and it should never be performed directly over bruises, inflamed or infected injuries, areas of bleeding or heavy tissue damage, or at sites of recent fractures or sprains. Massage is not recommended for cancer patients immediately after chemotherapy or radiation therapy. Avoid massage over any known tumor and any area with a recent surgical incision.

What can you do about tension headaches?
Massaging the neck and shoulders assist you to relax by softening the muscles that impinge on your head.

What can you do about sinus headaches?
Face massage will allow the sinuses to relax and the trapped fluids to release and drain.





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