If you have jaw pain, you already know how much it affects everything else: chewing, sleeping, talking, the headaches that creep up the side of your head by mid-afternoon. What a lot of people do not realize is that massage therapy can play a real role in managing it, as long as you understand what it is actually doing. First, the basics. TMJ stands for the temporomandibular joint, the hinge that connects your jaw to your skull, just in front of each ear. When people say they

Assisted stretching is one of the most useful things we do at Massage and Motion, and also one of the most misunderstood, partly because it's not something every practice offers. So here's what a first session really looks like.

Most people book one or the other based on a guess. Here's the real difference between sports massage and deep tissue, and how to know which one your body actually needs.