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About finding a Massage Therapist in the ….Rancho Cucamonga, Upland, Ontario, Alta Loma

Select a Massage Therapist in Rancho Cucamonga using the Yellow Pages?

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Using the Yellow Pages to find a Therapist is probably not the best way to go, the reason being you don’t really know what your getting. The best place to start is with family and friends. They, at least can tell you about the experience they had with Massage.  Many of my clients have known me for years. They could probably tell you more about me than I could. It kind of feels like family, like a friend

Another good place to look would be medical offices. Chiropractors, especially often retain Therapists who know a bit more than the average about the human body and how it works. At minimum, they at least know when a Massage is the wrong thing to do. My background, before I attended Massage School, was in Physical Therapy. I was interested in helping people with real health issues, Accidents, Injuries, and otherwise serious conditions.  I then was inclined to work in Chiropractic offices.

In the city of Rancho Cucamonga,  where I work, the Therapist must have a minimum of 500 hours training. We are also required to carry insurance.

Finding a good healer is hard to do….in my backyard Rancho Cucamonga

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A client of mine really needed the services of a Chiropractor. I offered to help her find one. But not all Chiropractors are the same, and I didn’t want for her to go at it alone, and end up without good appropriate quality care.  When you have been worked  in several Chiropractic offices  within the inland empire,  you get to know how things work.  Your run of the mill, rack em crack em office, would be counter to my clients best interests. I was looking for an “activator” practice, and not just a DC who knows how to use an activator. There is a difference.

I called a local office that seemed to fit the bill, explaining that I wanted to refer my client to a DC. A few days later,  I dropped in to check out the office.  The receptionist, treated  me with utter disbelief, and disdain, that a Massage Therapist would go to  all that trouble for a patient?  Okay, goodbye, she said tersely.  I guess I was disturbing her work, so I left

Well, to me when you go to see your doctor, you’re actually not only being treated by the doctor but by his or her whole organization. They are all responsible to help you get better. Any office is only as good as it’s weakest link.  I will not expose anyone to that kind of treatment. Nor will I stand for it. It reminded me, years back, I witnessed  a patient taping out (having a heart attack) in the waiting lobby of a hospital, the receptionist never noticed,  it was only other patients in the lobby that finally got help for the poor man.  This is what happens when you have people going through the motions, who could care less about you, and who might only view you as a hindrance or problem instead of a live flesh and blood human being with real needs.

Whether your selecting a Massage Therapist,  a DC, or a medical doctor, if they don’t seem happy to see you…….they probably aren’t. Run!

Deep tissue Massage……how deep does the rabbit hole go?

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When selecting a Massage Therapist you will probably want to know about the different techniques available to you.  Well, this can be a problem, and perhaps not the best approach to take when making that choice.

For example, you might ask me if I do Deep Tissue , over the years I must have heard that question thousands of times. The term deep tissue is a general term. Several techniques used by any competent Therapist would fall under that heading.   “Muscle stripping” or “Muscle rolling” are some examples.

But the term deep tissue has little meaning. For one thing no two Massage clients tolerances are the same, what one client experiences as very light massage feels  like being crushed under a large boulder to another client. On top of that, no two Therapists are created equal, because of differences in training, skill levels, and the therapists  physical constitution.

Often, my experience has been, when a client asks if I can do deep tissue, they are really telling me that the last massage they received seemed superficial, and did not have any effect at all. For the massage to be effective the Therapist must find the optimal level of pressure the client needs to get the job done. No more or less pressure. To work on that level the Therapist needs to be skilled. You just cannot steam roll over a person that will just make the client tense to protect themselves. Deep tissue work requires a good deal of  trust to exist between you and your Therapist.

Some exotic types of Deep tissue Massage go further then to the bone! Take for example  CHI NEI TSANG, Chinese for Internal Organ Massage. This requires deep levels of relaxation to be achieved as the Therapist passes through  layer after layers of muscle and fascia to reach the organs to be massaged,  certainly that is deep tissue. Images of Aztec human sacrifices come to mind. Fortunately, there are other approaches to organ massage available to those who need it. Take for example Hatha Yoga,  works on the organs by moving the body around the internal structures thereby creating the space your organs need to function unimpaired. Locally, Sandy Jones is an excellent Yoga instructor.  She been teaching Hatha Yoga over 30 years.

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