Deep Tissue Massage

Deep tissue massage therapy isn’t just a massage with deeper strokes or harder pressure. Deep tissue massages use firm pressure and slow strokes to massage deep layers of muscle and fascia, the connective tissue surrounding your muscles.

It breaks up scar tissue and muscle adhesions (the “knots” we feel in our muscles are muscle adhesions, which are bands of rigid and painful muscle tissue). These knots can inhibit our circulation and cause pain and inflammation.

When the massage begins, your therapist usually starts with lighter pressure to warm your muscles and then works into deeper force.

The standard techniques used in deep tissue massage therapy include stripping, which is deep pressure that glides along the length of your muscle fibers, and friction, which applies pressure across the grain of your muscle to break up adhesions and align tissue fibers.