Most people come to a massage therapist when something already hurts. That makes sense; pain is a good motivator. But it also means we're almost always playing catch-up. We want to make the case for the opposite approach: prehab over rehab. Rehab is what happens after an injury. It's necessary, it works, but it's expensive: in money, in time, and in everything you can't do while you're recovering. Prehab is the work you do before the injury. It's catching the tight hip, the r

If the first few steps you take in the morning send a sharp pain through your heel, you have probably already self-diagnosed plantar fasciitis. It's incredibly common, and incredibly frustrating, because it tends to drag on for months when it's only treated at the point of pain. But let's start with the name, because the name is a little misleading. "Plantar fasciitis" ends in "-itis," which means inflammation. The trouble is, when researchers have looked at the actual tissue

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.