Massage Therapy
Bring your stressed-out body, sore muscles and lower back pain to Amy Malloy at Synergy Body Therapy for massage therapy and you'll soon feel better . . . maybe better than you've felt for years. As a fully trained and licensed massage therapist, she has the formal training and hands-on experience to attend to your aches and pains. And as a former athlete herself, Amy understands the sports injuries that commonly affect those who pursue an active lifestyle. She treats her patients as she hopes she would be treated by others.
Amy Malloy begins sessions with new clients by evaluating their individual problem areas and concerns. Then, adding a holistic approach to the ancient art of massage therapy, she targets specific areas of the body in order to provide relief from back pain, pulled muscles, sports injuries, and general aches and pains along with associated connective tissue, all to improve general body health.
Amy's holistic approach to your well-being combines massage therapy and energy work. Some common complaints that can be treated with massage include myofascial pain, stress, back pain and pain from a sports injury. As a licensed massage therapist, Amy provides highly individualized attention and will make suggestions about modifying your lifestyle to reduce stress and prevent or minimize further back pain and cope with sports injuries.
Energy work includes Zero-Balancing, which releases stress, improves the flow of energy in our bodies, and helps relieve pain as well as emotional stress. It's like pressing your body's reset button and clearing out emotional blockages.
Amy's treatments include the following, as needed, depending on the individual situation:
- Stress Reduction. Through a calming environment, a light touch, and soothing background music, the emphasis of massage therapy is to improve circulation throughout the cardiovascular and lymphatic systems.
- Deep Tissue Work. Muscles become painful if they go into spasm from overuse, injury or underuse. Deep Tissue Work eases or eliminates these aches and pains, restoring the massage therapy client to a healthy and balanced body. Techniques used include Trigger Point Therapy, Myofascial Release and Positional Release.
- Pre- & Post-Centering Phases. Pre-Centering is a discussion between client and therapist about why the client has come in for treatment. Post-Centering is a debrief after the treatment.
In addition, Amy offers individualized services such as:
- Partnered-Approach Philosophy of Treatment, in which the therapist and client work together to create a cooperative atmosphere where client feedback during massage maximizes the effectiveness of the massage therapy treatment.
- Lifestyle-Modification Strategies, suggested by Amy, will help the client to enjoy a less-stressful life between massage therapy treatments. The first strategy is to identify habits used by the client that discourage a healthy lifestyle. The second is brainstorming to discover new habits to promote a healthy lifestyle.
- Examples include:
- Exercise suggestions that contribute to rehabilitation and positive changes in lifestyle
- Insight into holistic effects on sleep, nutrition and exercise
- Strategies that provide alternate behaviors, thereby reducing emotional stress