michael, Author at Massage Revolution

Think surgery is the answer for chronic low back pain? Think again. High quality, advance massage therapy and bodywork is where it’s at. No knives, no drugs; just effective, natural evidence-based pain relief.

Back pains are the number one cause of disability around the world, preventing many people from being able to work, not to mention play. Just about everyone will experience back pains at some point or other, but when it interferes with work and everyday activities, it’s time to take action.

You may experience pain in your lower, middle or upper back, on the left or right side only, or maybe you feel it all over. Because of the way the muscles run, lower back pain can even extend up into the back of the head. Any which way you feel it, neuromuscular trigger point massage therapy and advanced deep tissue massage can help give you lasting relief.

Our therapists take a personalized approach to each individual case. Your particular issue may need neuromuscular and trigger point therapy, as well as stretches, exercises and other recommendations or ‘homework’ for you to do to keep your back feeling good. Here’s why. When a person hurts his or her back, the muscles that run along the spine close to the surface often tighten up to protect the area from further injury, leading to lower or upper back muscle pain.

While this may protect your back in the short-term, it isn’t great over the long-term, and this type of restriction often leads to further injury and pain in the back, and even in other parts of the body. Another thing that happens when these superficial muscles tighten is that the deeper ones weaken, which only increases the risk of further back injury.

Due to the complexity of back problems, the neuromuscular massage therapist must be able work on multiple layers, but our specially-trained therapists are up to the task. Using neuromuscular massage therapy, we release tight spots and painful trigger points, restoring muscles to their proper length. This in turn corrects your posture and releases muscles from painful spasms and trigger points. Once the superficial muscles are released, you can strengthen the deeper ones. In time, they will return to their normal, strong, healthy condition and your body will work better than ever. Even that pain in lower left side of back will disappear.

But don’t just take our word for it; listen to the Canadians. You know how no-nonsense those Canadians can be about back pain. Seriously though, research proves the multi-prong approach to be true. Just last year, in 2018, the Canadian Therapeutic Guideline Initiative wrote, “A multimodal approach including MT (manual therapy), other commonly used active interventions, self-management, advice, and exercise is an effective treatment strategy for acute and chronic back pain.”

YOU MAY BE A CANDIDATE FOR SOFT-TISSUE THERAPY OR NEUROMUSCULAR MASSAGE CARE FOR BACK PAINS!

FOR MORE INFORMATION CALL 310-798-4263 OR GO TO www.MassageRevolution.com

The Back & Neck Relief Center (Massage Revolution)
500 S. Sepulveda Blvd Suite 101
Manhattan Beach, CA 90266

The pain in the lower left side of your back has you down, and you’ve missed work again. It seems every day you deal with some level of aching, soreness, and decreased range of motion. But today it’s excruciating. As you pick up your phone you think, “I should have made an appointment for a neuromuscular trigger point massage a long time ago.”

Back pains are the cause of at least 264 million missed days of work per year. Non-specific low back pain (nsLBP) is one of the most common – and costly – healthcare issues today. It’s the leading cause of absences from work and the main cause of activity limitation, not only in the US but around the world.

So, you’re far from alone. When it comes to pain, many people don’t seek out a healthcare specialist until it becomes unbearable – even if the pain is an ongoing problem. This is where maintenance care fits in.

If you have chronic pain– including upper back muscle pain – maintenance care may be just what you need. A neuromuscular therapist performs advanced bodywork, including trigger-point massage and deep tissue massage. The muscle release from this work provides relief from the pain. When this is done regularly (perhaps once every four to six weeks), the relief lasts longer and longer.

If you want to reduce your back pain and improve your range of movement, getting regular neuromuscular trigger point massage may reduce your current pain and lower your risk of future back pain. It can also minimize the severity of your pain if you do experience it in the future.

Recent studies say that maintenance care helps reduce the risk of future issues, such as upper back muscle pain, lower back pain, and general back pain. A study published last year found that people who received ongoing maintenance care rather than on an as-needed basis experienced nearly 13 fewer days suffering with nsLBP during the following year.

Managing your pain doesn’t have to be a singular effort. Between you and your neuromuscular therapist, you can minimize your discomfort.

Neuromuscular therapists recommend you do the following to help alleviate your back pain:

Develop a fitness routine
Performing specific exercises suggested by your neuromuscular therapist
Self-treating trigger points
Regular neuromuscular deep tissue massage (maintenance care)

YOU MAY BE A CANDIDATE FOR SOFT-TISSUE THERAPY OR NEUROMUSCULAR
MASSAGE CARE FOR BACK PAIN!

FOR MORE INFORMATION CALL 310-798-4263 OR GO TO www.MassageRevolution.com

The Back & Neck Relief Center (Massage Revolution)
500 S. Sepulveda Blvd Suite 101
Manhattan Beach, CA 90266

This information should not be substituted for medical advice. Any and all healthcare concerns, decisions, and actions must be done
through the advice and counsel of a healthcare professional who is familiar with your updated medical history.

Are you aware of the proven positive effects of neuromuscular massage therapy to relieve muscle and nerve pain? Are you at your wit’s end, suffering from pain on your back, neck, or shoulders? You’ll be glad to discover that you can be free of these discomforts (sometimes in less than an hour) with massage therapy. Massage Revolution right here in Los Angeles is here for you!

Neuromuscular therapy involves direct manipulation of soft tissues to treat underlying causes of various chronic muscles and nerve pain. It’s not just an ordinary massage, rather it is medically specified manipulation. It’s an effective treatment in dealing tender muscles points, poor circulation, nerve compression, postural issues, and biomechanical issues that can be attributed from repetitive movement injuries.

Our team’s sole professional goal is to relieve patient pain. We consult our patients to identify and choose treatment options to achieve a pain-free quality of life. We have a proven track record of helping people sleep better, move better, and feel better!

Contact Massage Revolution’s Back & Neck Relief Center and find relief today!

Did you know massage therapy is rapidly rising as an alternative to surgery for numerous painful ailments to include severe muscle pain? Painful muscle “trigger points” are activated when a muscle is overused or traumatized. The resulting inflammation from muscle overuse or trauma causes pain within the affected muscle. Trigger point pain periodically is miscommunicated by the brain and erroneously assigned to another site of the body. In some cases, trigger point pain can only be correctly isolated by specialists like massage professionals.

Trigger point therapy performed by trained massage therapists is the current rave within the pain management industry. This type of remedial massage directly put pressure to targeted points on tender muscle tissue. Often compromised muscles are weaker and cannot extend to their full range of motion, therefore, other muscles are compelled to action. Muscles compelled to perform tasks they normally do not accomplish can compound pain by creating new trigger points themselves. By applying direct pressure to trigger points through trigger point massage, you are promoting sufficient blood circulation to the area and flushing away toxins. The trick is always to accurately define the precise location of the trigger points and to apply the correct level and type of massage pressure to the same.

At Massage Revolution here in Los Angeles, on a daily basis we treat patients with severe muscle pain. Although treatment varies from patient to patient, we are proud to produce realized pain relief in as little as a single treatment.

To find out more about trigger point therapy, contact Massage Revolution.

Today is Bob Marley’s birthday, so let’s get up, stand up, and celebrate this global legend by appreciating and honoring one of the most sacred parts of your life, your body, and get rid of all those back pains.

Marley was referring to the pain and suffering of people on a mass level and that’s a whole other conversation..

However, living with physical back pains, where it hurts to move, sleep and bend, is serious suffering too!

Chronic pain takes its toll on your mind and body, and drains your energy, as your body truly is meant to be pain-free, enjoying an active lifestyle.

In honor of Bob Marley Day, and our mission to help as many chronic pain sufferers live pain-free, without surgery and pharmaceuticals, with our evidence-based bodywork solutions, you save by purchasing any neuromuscular massage packages.

Massage Revolution’s Back & Neck Relief Center’s vision is to truly be Los Angeles’s #1 pain relief and bodywork treatment center, helping as many people as possible to improve the quality of their lives and live pain-free. And help you be free from all back pains.

Deep muscle tissue can become stiff and painful when you move your body incorrectly, when it is repeatedly stretched, has trigger points, or used repetitively in exercise or sports. Essentially, when this happens stiffness and trigger points can restrict range of motion because of the pain that results when you try to move it. This pain is a result of muscle knots called trigger points and scar tissue that occurs when the muscle is overly strained.

Deep tissue sport massage can help relieve this pain and stiffness. This specialized therapy is applied to athletes and sports enthusiasts who commonly experience deep muscle tissue stiffness from practicing and performing the same sport or exercise regularly. Deep tissue sport massage therapy helps release muscle knots and scar tissue. Slowly, it stretches muscles to increase range of motion and flushes away lymphatic toxins. This will help hasten the healing process of strained muscles, trigger points, and correct muscle imbalances.

Delayed onset muscle soreness is expected after deep tissue sport massage therapy. This is due to muscular micro-tears that occurs within the fascia. Patients are shown how to perform light stretches to prevent the muscles from healing in a shortened state and rather, to regain their full health with better range of motion and muscular contraction.

To find out more about deep tissue sport massage, contact Massage Revolution.

Who really knows where neck pain comes from. It just pops up from stress, a bad night’s sleep, a strain, who knows.

However, when it does pop up, too many people think it has to do with spine alignment and not about the muscles or tightness.

It could be a problem with the spine or vertebra, but it could also be that the muscles in the neck are tight or constricted, or have landmine knots in them called trigger points.

In fact, the cause of most neck pain are muscle imbalances, tight muscles, and trigger points, with the most important first step to get rid of it for good being highly skilled neuromuscular massage therapy, which details and releases the muscle spasms and trigger points like no other technique.

Adults regularly report having neck pain and most likely everyone has experienced it. Most people come for neuromuscular massage with the complaint of chronic neck pain.

Massage for Neck Pain

1. Massage around the spine can be pain relieving and soothing. These muscles may alleviate tension within the neck. Therefore, any amount of specific, detailed neuromuscular massage and relaxation for neck painmay be beneficial.

2. Neuromuscular massage is the most scientific, evidenced based massage, and most valid approach of massaging the neck area that is sore, distressed, or in pain. Treating the body holistically as a unit is crucial, as different areas of the body are connected to others, so overall attention to the spine in general is important.

3. Massage for neck pain is not just for pain management, but it can also be preventative. With regular neuromuscular massage, pain after a trauma or accident may be reduced. This emphasis on pre-trauma health is increasingly based on research and evidence.

4. Massage scheduled regularly will more significantly benefit neck pain.

Besides tight muscles and trigger points, the cause of neck pain can often be a mystery, but sometimes neck pain is transient. Preventive, ongoing massage is key. For more information, contact Massage Revolution.

What Causes Lower Back Pain?

Many people with low back pain are afraid that their pain is related to structural problems and spinal fragility. This is not usually the case.

Lower back pain can be caused by many factors, including muscle imbalances, trigger points, lack of physical activity, injury, poor posture, obesity, stress, or even just picking up something incorrectly.

Fortunately, there are more and more studies that suggest that highly skilled, advanced deep tissue and neuromuscular massage therapy can help significantly reduce inflammation and provide relief from chronic back pain.

In fact, a study on massage for back pain showed that both Swedish massage and deep tissue massage are equally effective at improving lower back pain and painful symptoms.

Relaxation and structural massage provide healing benefits.

How Massage for Back Pain Helps

If you are one of the many who suffers from lower back pain, below are some ways that regular massage for back pain can bring serious relief:

1. Increased blood flow. Increased blood flow is a known proponent of muscle recovery and studies confirm that massage therapy helps improve general blood flow and reduces soreness.

2. Decreased tension. While muscle tension is needed by the body to maintain body posture and general movements, too much tension causes pain and muscle restriction. Massage therapy is proven to decrease muscle tension.

3. Increased endorphins. Endorphins are the feel good chemicals in the brain. Massage tactics generate these endorphins, which are known to reduce pain and produce a sense of euphoria.

4. Heat application. Superficial heat during massage is also recommended for lower back pain. Warm stone massages, hot towels, and heat packs are ideal add-ons for massage related to lower back pain.

The Takeaway

Research shows that massage therapy is a clinically proven method to reduce symptoms of widespread and debilitating lower back pain.

If you experience lower back pain, contact Massage Revolution’s Back and Relief Center.

Carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) is the most common and well-known nerve entrapment condition, often called neuropathy, affecting and causing symptoms in your entire shoulder girdle, arms, hands, and fingers. It’s basically a pinched nerve in your extremities somewhere between your neck and hand. Often people think that carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) affects only the all day prolonged computer or desk worker yet that’s far from reality.

Though Carpal tunnel syndrome symptoms can affect anyone, does it surprise you that it’s quite common in some of the most active people, such as athletes? Let’s look a little closer at the reasons for why carpal tunnel symptoms are so prevalent in even who we consider to be the most elite fit athletes…

Have you noticed how quite a few sports, such as baseball, cycling, tennis, and golf, require you to grip tightly for long intervals without any rest? This greatly fatigues the neck, shoulder, and forearm muscles, tendons, ligaments over time, stressing the joints, and creating muscle imbalances. These muscle imbalances create rounded shoulders and forward head posture, often put press on nerves as well as create pain landmine knots called “trigger points.” Ultimately, you’re left with pain and numbness, even tingling in your hands, arms, fingers. Additionally, any type of colliding accident in sports jamming the wrist can cause carpal tunnel syndrome symptoms. The key is knowing the best carpal tunnel syndrome treatment and prevention.

In addition to therapies such as manual therapy, soft tissue therapy, massage, neuromuscular therapy, to the neck, shoulder and arm muscles along the course of the median nerve (the elbow, shoulder, neck, for example), is quite effective to carpal tunnel syndrome prevention and to provide lasting relief to CTS symptoms. Treating CTS symptoms often includes non-surgical methods such as wearing a wrist splint primarily at night and using anti-inflammatories such as ginger, turmeric, and bioflavonoids.

There’s often many modifications athletes are able to make to their sport to avoid placing stress on their wrist. They can also work with other healthcare providers to manage conditions like diabetes, hypothyroid, or certain types of arthritis that can cause or contribute to CTS symptoms.

Lastly, training the CTS sufferer in specific postural exercises they can do throughout their daily activities to improve muscle balance, is often the most effective treatment and carpal tunnel syndrome preventative solution.

Early prevention is most important for CTS as it’s often at the root cause a postural distortion and muscle imbalance issue, leading to pressure on nerves and pain causing trigger points. The more you focus on muscle balance and good posture, the more you prevent the symptoms from occurring.

One of the more common coincidences in modern medicine: people who sit a lot have low back pain. The number of biomechanical reasons for this are several, but one of the most common is surprisingly simple: there’s a trigger point in your gluteus maximus muscle that is caused by sitting in a typical office chair, and it refers pain directly to the area just above your tailbone. One case study showed a young woman who came in complaining of low back pain after suffering a minor injury; two visits to a neuromuscular therapist who treated her right gluteus maximus later, she was back to work “assuming all duties without pain.” If you want to get lasting relief from back pain, neck pain, sciatica, and more, then call and book neuromuscular massage today!

Travell and Simons, 1999, 491

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One of the most common complaints in America today is the ‘tension headache,’ a pain at the base of the skull that will often be accompanied by pain running up behind the ear, pain at or just in front of the temple, or more rarely in the ridge above one eye. The name ‘tension’ headache implies one may be shouldering too heavy of a burden…and in fact, that metaphor may be more literal than anyone thinks. A study published in the journal Headache showed that people with myofascial trigger points in the trapezius muscle had tension headaches that were longer and more painful than those without. By no coincidence, all of the regions mentioned above are areas where shoulder pain is known to refer — so the next time the base of your skull is pounding and no amount of NSAIDs or meditation will help, call a trigger point therapist and ask them to take your shoulder off the grindstone. If you want to get lasting relief from back pain, neck pain, sciatica, and more, then call and book neuromuscular massage today!

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When Amazon announces that they’re developing a new tablet specifically geared toward gamers, you know tablets have become genuinely mainstream — but they’re not without their issues. It’s all-too-common to see someone hanging their head forward, looking down at their latest level in Candy Crush, and then look up…and wince. That’s because the levator scapulae — the muscles that hold up your head — can get quite irate when you abuse them by looking down for long periods of time. One study of twenty-two young phone-prone women found that “constant trigger points and creptitation (popping/cracking of the shoulder)” were common to their complaints — so if you can’t afford to put your tablet or phone down, look into addressing the trigger points directly. If you want to get lasting relief from back pain, neck pain, sciatica, and more, then call and book neuromuscular massage today!

Travell and Simons, 1999, 491

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