what we do

At Body Solutions we use manual manipulation techniques with therapeutic massage to help alleviate discomfort in the tissues and joints.

Our registered therapists have experience treating a wide range of health conditions and have completed additional courses to incorporate other modalities within their professional treatment. Below you will find modalities listed along with a brief description. 

Instrument Assisted Soft Tissue Mobilization

Instrument-assisted soft tissue mobilization (IASTM) also known as 'Scraping' is form of manual therapy that uses stainless steel tools to perform muscle mobilizations. It enables therapists to effectively and efficiently address soft tissue lesions and fascial restrictions resulting in improved patient outcomes. IASTM works like a standard massage, but the specialized instruments are used in place of a therapist's physical hands. These instruments allow more direct treatment of the soft tissues involved with movement.
Talk to your therapist about the many benefits of IASTM, including:
• Increased collagen production
• Decreased pain
• Restoring proper function
• Speeding up recovery time
• Reducing inflammation
• Improved mobility
• Alleviating chronic pain conditions
• No downtime, you can continue activities as normal

Facial Cupping and Gua Sha Combo

Facial Gua Sha is a scraping technique that is known to detoxify and cleanse. It uses a flat tool with rounded edges; Often a cooling stone or stainless steel tools.
The benefits include increased circulation, diminished fine lines, and reduced acne. Because of the scraping method, gua sha also helps contour the face, accentuating jawlines and cheekbones. Essentially, it lightly aggravates the skin, which prompts quicker healing, increased collagen production, and detoxification. It improves your skin’s natural radiance and improves its vitality.


Facial cupping uses small suction cups to increase circulation in the face. Essentially creating space between the skin and the muscles, it encourages blood and oxygen flow, thus helping your skin heal and regenerate.

There are many benefits of facial cupping, including skin that is smoother, clearer, and calmer. It encourages lymphatic drainage, helps combat acne, detoxifies, and improves tone. The beauty of this treatment is that it’s non-invasive, completely natural, and you’ll start seeing results right away.

Cupping

Cupping is an ancient form of alternative medicine in which the therapist puts special cups on your skin for a few minutes to create suction, or a negative pressure. It is thought to improve the flow of energy in the body and facilitate healing.
People get it for many purposes, including to help with pain, inflammation, blood flow, relaxation, and well-being, and as a type of deep tissue massage. Cupping can greatly nourish the muscles, tendons, and ligaments.
• Joint pain from recent or past injuries
• Pain in the joints from arthritis or arthritic-like conditions
• Relieve pain that is often difficult to get with other methods
• Increase suppleness of stiff tendons, muscles, and joints. Great for muscular pain.
• Increases blood flow
• Relieve heat and inflammation that may be causing pain
• Break up adhesions
• Clear stagnant qi, lymph, and blood, allowing better qi flow which improves pain overall
• Stretch stuck and bound up fascia and connective tissues
• Affect conditions that are deep in the body (4 inches or more)
• Tones skin and breaks up cellulite, naturally clears skin
• Detoxify the body by releasing toxins that are causing degradation of the joints (arthritis) so the joints can heal. This can even result in weight loss.
• Relieve symptoms of cold and flu
• Release and drain fluids that are stuck in an area, promoting better lymph circulation
• Sedate an overactive nervous system
• Reduces stress/stress-related pain and anxiety and promotes relaxation
• Chronic Injuries

Hot Stone Massage

Hot stone massage involves smooth, flat, heated stones that are placed on specific parts of your body. You may also notice your therapist will perform massage techniques with the stones, moving them with their hands, or placing them in certain areas. The stones are made of basalt, a type of volcanic rock that retains heat. Sometimes cold stones are also used during a hot stone massage, usually on the face to decrease congestion and puffiness.

It helps with…

• Helps relieve muscle tension and pain

• Reduces stress and anxiety

• Increased joint flexibility

• Decreased muscle spasms and tension

• Promotes better sleep

• Boosts Immunity

• May help relieve symptoms of autoimmune diseases such as Fibromyalgia or Rheumatoid Arthritis

• Helps manage chronic pain

indian head massage

It sounds like a treat for a special occasion or spa break, but actually Indian Head Massage has many health benefits both physically and emotionally.
Your back, neck, and shoulders are the most vulnerable to stress and tension and it’s important to keep these muscles in good condition so that you’re not left in any pain.
The aim of Indian head massage is to release tension in the muscles and joints of the head, face, neck and shoulders. Indian head massage can also help with relieving fatigue, insomnia, headaches, and sinusitis. The experience is deeply calming and relaxing, leaving a feeling of increased energy, concentration and revitalization.
There are so many health and wellness empowering reasons to get one... Here are just a few:


• Aids in the relief of migraines - Often tension in the mid back, neck and head can lead to headaches and migraines. Your massage will focus on applying pressure to the mid back, arms and shoulders to reduce tension in the muscles. Massage around the neck and head encourages circulation of cerebral fluid and reduce headache causing blockages.
• Promotes Hair Growth - Massage to the scalp and head increases nourishment and oxygen to the hair follicle which in turn stimulates hair growth. Kneading of the head during a massage, opens up the blood vessels on the scalp and helps in better absorption by the blood vessels
• Relief from acute and chronic neck and shoulder stiffness
• Increases levels of concentration
• Relaxes the whole body and Loosens the scalp
• Relieves symptoms of anxiety and depression - Massaging the head encourages the supply of oxygen to the brain which is one of the best ways of reducing anxiety and of lifting one’s mood. Oxygen helps you think clearly and creatively and a similar effect is experienced through exercise
• Relieves insomnia and fatigue - Indian head massage relieves stress and tension within the body by promoting relaxation. This allows a deep sense of well being and relaxation, which in turn affects your sleep cycle.
• Stimulates and improves the circulation of the lymphatic system, allowing for the disposal of toxins from the body
• Providing relief from Earache, Eyestrain, Tinnitus, Aching Jaws from clenching or grinding teeth, Sinusitis, Headaches and Migraines.
• Provides relief from hair disorders associated with stress such as Alopecia, Dandruff and Psoriasis

Gua Sha

Gua sha is a traditional Chinese healing method in which a trained professional uses a smooth-edged tool to stroke your skin while they press on it. This motion raises small, red, rash-like dots that show under your skin called petechiae.

People use gua sha to treat chronic pain all over their body. They often do it alongside other complementary treatments like herbal medicine, massage, acupuncture, and heat therapy.



Trigger Point Therapy

A trigger point is a taut band of skeletal muscle inside a muscle group. Trigger points are tender to the touch and can refer pain to distant parts of the body. You may have regional, persistent pain resulting in a decreased range of motion in the affected muscles.

Trigger point therapy is a soft-tissue treatment that helps release tense, painful knots in your muscles and fascia (web of connective tissue). Components of trigger point therapy may include sustained pressure, posture and movement correction, electrical stimulation, dry needling, and massage.

joint mobilizations

A joint mobilization is a manual therapy technique, which depending on how its implemented and the goals of the therapist, can help temporarily reduce pain, improve joint function, and increase range of motion around that joint.

A type of straight-lined, passive movement of a skeletal joint that addresses arthrokinematic joint motion rather than osteokinematic joint motion. It is usually aimed at a 'target' synovial joint with the aim of achieving a therapeutic effect. This opens up the structure increasing range of motion and decreasing pain.