What Massage at Zazou Can Do For You!

There are so many other uses for Massage Therapy other than just “relaxation and pampering”. Don’t let the fact that we are called a “Spa” fool you! We have fully qualified RMT’s that can help in a number of preventative and healing ways that you may not even be aware of. A Massage Therapist can help with anyone experiencing pain, whether it be an injury, repetitive action pain, or chronic pain.

The following is a list of available massages and their descriptions:

General Relaxation Massage

This massage will benifit everyone! It helps to increase circulation and lower stress levels and the production of cortisol. (The hormone that attacks are body system functions).

Therapeutic Massage

This massage will have the same benefits of a relaxation massage with much more! A therapeutic massage has a specific focus with the aim of improving the ailment you are experiencing. This could be anything from hypertonic muscles from repetitive action, an injury in a motor vehicle accident, an illness such as fibromyalgia, or chronic fatigue syndrome.
Massage Therapy is a fabulous alternative form of health care that can increase our quality of life immensely.
A Therapeutic Massage consists of many different modalities and techniques. We can custom fit your massage to what will benefit you the most and the pain you’re experiencing.
Remember you do not need to be experiencing pain to benefit from a therapeutic massage. If we take the time to care for our bodies and treat them right, they will in turn be good to us as well.

The following is a list of all the modalities and techniques available with Zazou Salon & Spa’s Therapeutic Massage:

Active Release Technique

Active Release Technique applies specific myofascial release methods to rapidly treat musculoskeletal pain, stress, and restrictions, caused by damage, injury, or repeated stress to the myofascia. Extremely efficient and effective, some discomfort may be experienced from this fast-acting deep-tissue myofascial work.

Acupressure

Acupressure is based on the Chinese meridian system. It uses stimulation of a specific point or points to correct the energy flow within the meridians. Release of muscular tension is often part of the treatment. Correction of the energy flows can have general or specific therapeutic effects on any or all systems of the body.

Aromatherapy

Aromatherapists can assess and support the treatment of, or enhance a variety of physical and mental conditions, through careful selection of quality plant essential oils (not flower essences). Some may use lymph drainage or relaxation massage as part of the application.

Chair Massage

Chair Massage, also known as On-Site massage, is a specific, effective de-stressing massage and acupressure-based treatment done with the client fully clothed in specially-developed massage chairs that can be taken into almost any professional, public, or private setting. Sessions range from 10 minutes to an hour.

Cranial Sacral/CranioSacral Therapy

Cranial Sacral Therapy begins by assessing the effects throughout the body of restrictions to the flow (pulses) of the cerebral spinal fluid. A variety of very gentle treatment techniques applied both directly and indirectly release the body’s connective tissues restrictions, and optimize the cerebral spinal fluid flow.

Manual Lymph Drainage

Manual Lymph Drainage improves health and manages certain pathologies by improving the flow of the lymphatic system through light touch massage. It can reduce swelling and have analgesic effects. Some therapists are trained to help manage lymphedema (congenital / acquired), wounds and other skin pathologies.

Massage Therapy

Massage Therapy is the manipulation of the soft tissues (primarily muscle and connective tissue) of the body. It strives to achieve balance and health in the body by affecting the body’s systems. Massage can significantly accelerate the healing process by having a positive affect on the circulatory and lymphatic systems

Maternal Massage

Maternal Massage is a specialized focus of massage therapy, sometimes with other added techniques, applied to treat the discomforts and stress of pregnancy, and maintain optimum health and muscle-tone throughout the pregnancy, birth, postpartum and nursing period.

Myofascial Release

Myofascial Release uses gentle stretching to focus on pain or restrictions in the connective tissue that exists three-dimensionally continuously through the entire body. It relies on sensory feedback of, and subsequent response to, the restrictions in the connective tissue perceived by the therapist.

Orthotherapy

Orthotherapy uses massage therapy, stretching, joint mobilization, exercise therapy, postural assessment and basic nutritional counselling to ease muscular pain or stiff joints caused by tension and stress, imbalance in connective tissues, muscles or joints, tissue damage, or systemic problems.

Reflexology

Reflexology is based on the ability to cause a healing stimulation of one body part or organ (a reflex response) by stimulation of a specific point or points on distant parts of the body. Most common is foot reflexology, where points on the foot are worked to reflex non-foot body organs. You may find hand and ear reflexologists.

Reiki

Reiki means Universal Life Force energy. The receiver lies clothed while the giver gently places their Reiki-emitting hands in various positions on the head and body with the intention of enhancing and restoring both balance and healing to the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual realms. It is very relaxing.

Sports Massage

Sports Massage therapists have a special interest in the needs of professional athletes, and people that regularly participate in sports. The two main aspects are conditioning and injury prevention work, and rehabilitation should injury occur. Usually approached through massage, exercise and stretching programs.

Trigger Point Therapy

Trigger Point Therapy utilizes compression, stretch, and hydrotherapy to release active, tightened, or referred trigger points that create pain in muscle tissue. The area of pain could extend from or be some distance from the active trigger point or points.

Visceral Manipulation

Visceral Manipulation™ is a manual therapy that focuses on improving the function of the internal organs and their associated environment and influence. It uses specific placement of soft manual forces to encourage the normal mobility, tone and motion of the viscera and their connection tissues.