Soft Tissue Care The posture strain of improperly sitting at a desk with a keyboard and monitor 6-14hrs a day, or the extreme impact on the body from a serious injury such as a motor vehicle accident, will ultimately harden the soft tissue and begin to rapidly decrease the function of the surrounding body (arms, shoulders, neck, head, lower back, etc) producing varied levels of pain and immobility.

Myofascial, Neurovascular and Osseous Structures are terms used for your muscles, connective tissues, nerves, blood vessels, bones and joints. They interconnect allowing the varied movements and functions of your body.

It's mainly through overuse, misuse and abuse that your muscles, connective tissue, bones and joints become stiffened and hardened. This ultimately impedes your mobility as well as the proper flow of circulation and nerve messaging to the intricate areas of your body. This is, in fact, the result of common sprains, strains and pain patterns that have developed.

After a short time, these strain and pain patterns begin to interfere with your ability to perform your daily activities of work and lifestyle, depleting you of an optimum quality of life.

At Everest Therapeutics, the registered massage therapists like to follow a simple, but complete plan when working with their clients that involves proper assessment, efficient treatment, and simple prevention of reoccurrence with home remedial exercises. They employ various methods of functional and palpative assessment procedures that provide key information and allow progress to be measured. The various manual techniques provided allow the therapists to facilitate your body's healing potential in restoring function, mobility and early elimination of pain.

However, complete soft tissue care is not only about what we accomplish with each treatment session, but more of how you, the client, can maintain and improve your condition between treatment sessions.

Therapeutic exercises to promote mobility and stability are an essential aspect of your recovery process. We demonstrate and provide you with progressive simple home exercises so you can accelerate the return of optimum function.

Soft Tissue Mobilization (STM)

This refers to the range of manual techniques that would most resemble traditional western massage. The practitioner may decide to use oil to help with the contact and initiation of the technique.

A light to moderate glide is most often preferable to the client but often not necessary. A local Vancouver traditional Chinese medicine practitioner specially blends the oil we carry at Everest Therapeutics using only high-grade natural products.

Essentially STM techniques are our tools that we use to dissolve active trigger points, eliminate spasms and reduce hypertonicity. Most often these are considered to be the deeper and firmer pressure techniques.

Even though there can be a level of discomfort during and shortly after employing these techniques, it is a usual part of the process and normally diminishes quickly, leaving the client with a sense of positive change.

Using STM techniques prior or after a MFR or CST session will improve the response of the tissue often quickening the softening and release of old hard chronic adhesions of the soft tissue releasing and balancing old strain patterns faster and more completely. After two the three sessions of using STM techniques, the client often states that it is a good feeling of "discomfort" knowing that their body will feel much better afterward.