Why Live With Pain?

Understanding pain and learning how to control and alleviate it can be the answer to needless suffering, lost man-hours and wage losses.

Who will benefit from the workshops?

• Persons involved in the treatment of pain or pain management.
• Individuals wanting to help family and friends.
• Companies who want to reduce loss of time due to pain, stress, and injury.
   

Understanding Pain and Pain Relief

Pain is the result of inflammatory reactions by-products that excite nerve receptors.

The bodies reaction to pain can lead to chronic degenerative tissue disorders unless treated.

Touch pressure removes chemicals from receptive nerve endings.

Understanding pain and how to control it can be the answer to needless suffering.

The Cost of Pain

Repetitive movements and over exertion cause loss of time and money

Pain is the number one reason we see doctors

100 million North Americans suffer from chronic or long term pain

50 million are partially or totally disabled by pain

700 million workdays are lost by industry to pain

60 billion of industrial payroll dollars are consumed by pain

What does Massage Therapy do?

Massage Therapy acts directly upon the muscular, nervous and circulatory systems to rehabilitate physical injuries and improve health. Research  studies have found Massage Therapy to positively affect:

• circulatory system

• pain perception

• psychological state

• respiratory function

• muscular and nervous systems

What we teach

1. Safe and simple techniques for pain relief

2. The physiology of pain and its' degenerative cycle

3. Preventative exercise and correct postural awareness

4. Proper use of heat, ice, wraps, poultices and liniments

5. Stress and its' affect on the pain cycle
   
   Massage is a safe, simple, easy to learn home remedy that everyone should know how to use.