Montrose Massage Therapy

Mike brings a myriad of modalities to his massage style to meet the needs of his patients. He studied at the Boulder School of Massage Therapy, graduating in 1986. He has taken hundreds of hours of continuing education to improve and enhance his skills for relieving pain from the body.

These studies have included Cranio-sacral therapy, Precision Neuromuscular Therapy, St. John Neuromuscular therapy, Somatics, Bio-kinetics, and Functional Manipulative Techniques.Mike's philosophy is to first determine which muscles correspond to the symptoms you are having. Second, he will treat these muscles very specifically and comprehensively.

Precision Neuromuscular Therapy is a technique developed by Douglas Nelson in Champaigne, Ill. It utilizes multiple methods of evaluating causes of your pain, including presentation of pain patterns, analyzing postural distortions, and checking for trigger point referrals. A treatment plan is generated from this information, and the muscles are treated accordingly for the most effective and efficient treatments.

Swedish massage is the most common therapy to the field. It comprises compression to both superficial and deep muscles, along with long kneading strokes to get your body to a very relaxed place. This is a great massage style to wind down the body when it has been worked too hard, played too hard or maybe stressed for too long.

Our bodies suffer pain for a myriad of reasons. There may be systemic syndromes like Rheumatoid arthritis or Fibromyalgia. There may have been a trauma to a part of the body from an accident. Or, there may be pain from long term overworking of the muscles. High stress levels may have created high levels of tension in the musculature of parts of the body.