I, Angela Cuzzupe have been qualified as a remedial massage therapist for close to 11 years. I feel as though life has taken me full circle, well maybe not exactly, but near enough. Many years ago,I once swam competitively and while not as good as my younger siblings, good enough to grasp that it wasn't for me. No, I didnt become the great athlete imagied by many. However, what it did give me was the understanding that followed with many sporting injuries and sydromes suffered by many in everyday life, by you and me, not just the elite athletes.Of course, study had a bit to do with it also, but, it's like a jigsaw puzzle, eventually everything fell into place. The body as a whole and as a structure is an amazing being,I have come to appreciate this unique structure. I'm constantly learning different techniques and styles as no two bodies are the same.
SERVICES
Life does have a way of keeping us busy. However, dont forget the most important person- yourself! For, if not healthy in mind, spirit and soul you cant afford to be there for every other important being in your life!!!
Making time to care for you, shouldn't be a chore but a necessity, especially when life demands so much more
Massage is - "A healing touch that applies force on the muscle belly of the body. Its systematic manipulation of the soft tissue is used as a curative effect on the body.
Soft tissue is made more pilable through massage as it relieves muscle tension as well as muscle spasms. Also improves blood and lymph circulation. Includes the stretching of connective tissue hastens to eliminate waste and toxins
A WONDER ANTIDOTE TO STRESS AND MUSCLE TENSION WHILE INDUCING A RELAXED STATE
Touch is one of the most primal senses and the only form of therapy that can positively affect all the bodies system simultaneously without any unpleasant side effects
USE MASSAGE AS A PREVENTATIVE!!!
IT RELIEVES- ANXIETYBACKACHECHRONIC PAINFATIGUE HEADACHES MIGRAINESMUSCULAR CRAMPSSPASMS AND MUSCULAR TENSION
IT IMPROVES -THE BLOOD AND LYMPH CIRCULATIONTHE NERVOUS AND DIGESTIVE SYSTEM HASTENS TO ELIMINATE WASTE AND TOXINS IMPROVES MUSCLE TONE POSTURE AND JOINT MOBILITY SLEEP QUALITY AS WELL AS QUANITITY AND GENERAL WELLNESS OVERALL
THE POWER OF HEALING IN MASSAGE IS THE ENERGY THAT FLOWS THROUGH IN TOUCH TO REFRESH, REGENERATE AND REVITALIZE
Regular massage maintenance will increase your overall sense of well being for optimum physical and psychological health. A massage a month helps keep the body in tune with the mind.
Always, as a rule of thumb, maintain fluids up over a 24- 48 hour period, post massage to help in the elimination of fluid retention and toxins from the body.
TYPES OF MASSAGE
Swedish / Relaxation Therapy
The main purpose is to increase the oxygen flow in the blood and to release tension as well as toxins from the muscle.
A Relaxation/ Swedish massage is designed for any person who has complete relaxation in mind. It includes deep tissue work, the aim to levitate tired overworked and nagging muscles. It reduces stress both emotional and physical and is suggested as part of a regular program during stress management
SWEDISH MASSAGE FEELS GOOD, IS RELAXING AND INVIGORATES ALL AT ONCE!!!
Deep Tissue
Our bodies are made of many layers of skin, the same applies for muscles, and there are many layers!!!
Swedish massage works on the superficial layers, that is, layers that are close to the surface of skin and Swedish massage induces relaxation on the surface.
Deep tissue massage (DTM) focuses on the deeper layers of the muscle as well as the superficial muscle. Deep tissue massage helps to levitate problem areas deeper under the surface of the superficial muscle
The purpose of deep tissue massage is to unstick the muscle belly and release both toxins as well as deep-seated tension held in what is commonly known as knots or trigger points. It is also beneficial for many physical problems such as sports injuries.
As with Swedish massage, deep tissue massage can work on an emotional level. The emotions released through deep tissue are commonly emotions that have been stored over a long period of time.
Remedial Tissue
Provides a healing treatment that can be gentle or strong, deep or shallow, area specific or full body. It is designed for the more acute or chronic pain.Acute pain is a rapid onset severe symptom/ pain that is brief in duration after treatment.Chronic pain is a pain of a long duration involving several treatments before improvement. All muscles run in a line, remedial massage, traces the line of discomfort (pain), as far as the initial pain, which may or may not be where the discomfort is, healing both the cause of the discomfort as well as the symptom.
Use remedial massage to assist you in many conditions such as listed below
CARPAL TUNNEL MUSCULAR CRAMPS & SPASMSNECK/BACK & SHOULDER PAIN OSTEOARTHRITIS POST SPRAINS & STRAINS POOR POSTUREPOST WHIPLASH SCIATICATENSION HEADACHES & MIGRAINES…
OF COURSE THERE ARE MANY MORE....
REMEDIAL MASSAGE NOT ONLY HELPS IN THE SHORT TERM OF EVERYDAY LIVING BUT IN THE SPRAINS AND STRAINS OF PHYSCIAL ACTIVITY
Sports
Sports massage was developed to treat not only muscle but also joint, ligaments and tendons. It utilities using such techniques as muscle energy technique (M.E.T.) and lengthening of the muscle belly. M.E.T. is a technique used by remedial and sports therapist to assist the muscle to stretch and therby lengthen and mobilize the affect area without being too aggressive. Sports massage although developed for the active person can be used by you and me alike. That is to say, any person who as suffered trauma or injury in their everyday life or through exercise or a simple accident can use it.
Slow long stokes help induce relaxation in muscles and nerves, similar to a Swedish massage while short fast strokes stimulate lymph and blood circulation.
IT IS RECOMMENDED FOR ANY PERSON WHO IS ACTIVE TO HAVE A MASSAGE PRE & POST ACTIVITY
Pre exercise massage helps to warm up the body and therefore assist in recovery of injuries that might occur if your muscles are too cold before strenuous exercise. While exercising, your body produces lactic acid. Lactic acid is a compound that in the cells as an end- product of glucose metabolism. During strenuous exercise lactic acid may accumulate in the muscles causing cramps. Post exercise massages helps to reduce and loosen the lactic acid build up caused by exercise
Aromatherapy
Why not include the use of essential oils?
Aromatherapy involves the use of essential oils, often pre-blended into base oil. Along with touch, which is one of the primal senses, smell, the most enduring of our senses can positively have a profound effect on our physical being as well as psychological. Aromas can trigger and leave impressions associated with previous experiences or emotions can be re-created all in the perfume of oil
Aphrodite Blend
Aphrodite is the goddness of love, beauty and passion associated with the planet venus.
Blended with, ylang ylang, sweet orange, grapefriut white and patchouli, this one is strictly for the ladies!
Aphrodite's multiple love affairs are lengendary and that's why she is associated with passionate sexuality.
Drift Away Blend
As aphrodite is strictly for the ladies, drift away is the apollo of oils, making this strictly for the men!
Blended with oils of manadrin, lavendar, angustifolia, majoram sweet, palmarosa and myrrh. Myrrh being one of the twelve oils used by the gods!
Apollo is the sun god who oversees prophecy, light, music, and healing. He was one of the twevle original Olypian gods and goddness. He is the son of Zeus and twin brother of the goddnes Artemis.
Invigorate/ Uplift Blend
Come on, lets all admit to ourselves who can't do with a pick me up occasionally. With all the right blends of citrus -sweet orange, lime, lemon scented tea tree its hard to resist. A extermely good oil to use just before a big night out...
Optimism Blend
Unlike the uplift blend, this blend is specific for someone who sees the glass half empty not half full. There are times when we all feel a little like this. Blended with grapefruit white, beragmot calabrian, lavendar true, tuberose absolute and jasmine absolute its hard not see the glass half full again!
Time to Chill
Feeling frazzled? Want some R & R? Need some time to yourself?
This blend has it all . With the right blend of all essential oils that activate all you want from an aromatherapy massage.It packs a WOW!factor.
With blends of lemon, orange sweet, lavendar bulagarian, patchouli and majoram it is sure to please.
ESSENTIAL OILS INVIGORATE THE MIND, ENLIVEN THE SENSES AND RELAX THE MUSCLES ALL WHIST HAVING A MASSAGE!!!
Lymphatic Drainage
Manual Lymphatic Drainage has a totally different purpose to deep tissue massage or relaxation & is quite surprisingly pain free. It acts like a deep cleansing treatment – detoxifying tissue, improves circulation, nourishes and regenerates cells as well as increases the body`s resistence to disease.
The lymphatic system is the first line of defence & sits just below the surface of the skin. Commonly referred to as
“the garbage disposal” of the body. Without the lymphatic system, the cardiovascular system would stop working and the immune system would be impaired.
Unlike the cardiovascular system, that uses the heart as a pump, the lymphatic system has no pump. The system relies on activity like the squeezing action of surrounding muscles when they contract, pressure changes in the chest cavity during breathing, the presence of a way-one value to prevent back flow, the forces of gravity and even the pump like action of the balls of ones feet when walking.
For the lymph sytem to work effectively and carry out the fluid transfer and filtering functions the lymph fluid must run freely
Manual lymphatic drainage helps to stimulate the flow of the of the lymphatic system which provides so many health benefits –
PROMOTES HEALING LESSENS PAIN IMPROVES CHRONIC CONDITIONS STREGTHENS THE IMMUNE SYSTEMRELIEVES FLUID CONGESTIONIS AN EFFECTIVE COMPONENT IN LYMPHEDEMA IMPROVES THE APPREACE OF OLD SCAR TISSUE AS WELL AS HELP IN THE REDUCTION OF STRETCH MARKS
and on the list GOES ON…
Manual lymphatic drainage is a very gentle massage and one that massages fluid not muscles. It consists of a series of light slow rhythmical pumping movements followed by long gentles strokes. The result is a wave like movement along the lymph vessels, encouraging the flow of lymph fluid and the removal of any congestion.
Drinking plenty of fluids and keeping your intake of fluids slightly higher than normal will reduce any short - term unpleasant side effects that may or may not be felt
MONDAY & FRIDAY FROM 11AM TILL LATE, WEDNESDAY FROM 2PM, & SATURDAY BY APPOINTMENT ONLY
$70.00 per hour
$50.00 per 30 minutes
Also available in 45 minute & 90 minute upon request
QUALIFICATION DETAILS
Diploma of Remedial Therapies
Level 1 Lymphatic Drainage
Accredited with AAMT
Private Health Rebates Available
MAP
Aromatherapy, Beauty Therapy, Deep Tissue Massage, Lymphatic Drainage, Myofascial Release Therapy, Pregnancy Massage, Remedial Massage, Remedial Therapies, Sports Injury Therapy, Sports Massage, Swedish Relaxation Massage, Trigger Point Therapy
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