Integrative Medicine

Bodywork

Therapeutic Bodywork promotes healthy balance between the mind, body and spirit. Through the power of touch of various massage modalities, the body ignites its own natural healing processes including increased blood flow and lymphatic movement in the body, soothing of the central nervous system, and alleviating stress and psycho-emotional disorders.

Through specific techniques designed to help your body achieve maximum range of motion while stimulating the circulatory systems, bodywork opens you to receiving the gifts of nutrition assimilation, waste elimination, increased vitality and range of motion of certain tight or blocked areas of the body due to poor diet, incorrect postural alignment and stressful lifestyles. Active individuals benefit greatly from direct manipulation of muscle fiber and connective tissue, loosening joints and flushing post-exercise lactic acid from sensitive tissues. Bodywork also assists in the delivery of oxygen and nutrients to every area of your body, slowing the effects of aging and increasing the body’s natural healing process.

Swedish Massage

Swedish Massage is bodywork that is specifically designed to relax muscles. By applying deep pressure to muscles and bones, by rubbing concurrently with the circulation towards the heart, Swedish Massage purposefully enhances oxygen flow in blood and helps to rid toxins in the muscles. Curtailing recovery time from injuries like muscle sprains, Swedish Massage helps to flush body tissues of lactic and uric acid, and other metabolic wastes. Aside from increasing circulation to the heart, Swedish Massage stretches ligaments and tendons making them more flexible. Through particular techniques, Swedish massage is also known to stimulate the skin and nervous system to reduce emotional and physical stress. An effective therapywhich helps in overall wellbeing, Swedish Massage is not only relaxing but invigorating as well.

Sports Massage

Sports Massage at SCIMCC has an eastern focus, combining aspects of Chinese Bodywork (Tuina) and Traditional Thai Medical Massage. This form of body therapy incorporates Yoga and Acupressure. This is an ancient form of healing that integrates elements of gentle rocking, deep stretching and rhythmic compression to create an unique therapeutic massage experience. Eastern Sports Massage is a necessity for athletes, martial artists, dancers and any individual interested in achieving maximum performance. Eastern Sports Massage enhances relaxation, increases flexibility and assists in the restructuring of the musculoskeletal framework. This work is accomplished fully clothed and the use of oil is not required.

Thai Massage

Performed through your clothes, traditional Thai Massage leaves you in a state of sublime relaxation. Its mechanics show a strong Indian Ayurvedic and yogic influence, but a very disciplined emphasis on energy channels betrays a link with Chinese Traditional Medicine. Thai Traditional medicine has existed for over 1000 years, in pretty much the same form that is used today. Its recent world-wide spread has been quite phenomenal. Different from other forms of bodywork - smoothness, rhythm and flow are three words that come to mind. Nothing is hurried; there are no sudden changes of rhythm or speed. Every technique melts into the next with total economy of motion; it looks like a beautifully choreographed performance. First time recipients of the massage react differently; some find the pressing techniques - particularly those done with the thumb - a little uncomfortable; others are shocked at the degree of stretching their stiff body can achieve.

Almost all feel relaxed, refreshed and much more flexible afterwards, and those who have regular Thai massage come to enjoy the deep pressure techniques and spectacular manipulations.

Reflexology

Reflexology is the application of pressure, stretch and movement to the feet and hands to affect corresponding parts of the body. Reflexologists view the feet and hands as a mirror image of the body. By applying this technique a reflexologist can break up patterns of stress in other parts of the body. In general terms the benefits of reflexology have to do with the reduction of stress. Because the feet and hands help set the tension level for the rest of the body they are an easy way to interrupt stress signals and reset homeostasis, the body's equilibrium.

Zero Balancing

An Extremely relaxing bodywork style that integrates body energy and body structure through a gentle touch.  The intention of these sessions is to enhance human potential, health and wholeness.  Zero Balancing utilizes "energy" as a working tool to create clearer and stronger fields to influence one's potential in resolving imbalances and expanding states of consciousness.  These sessions address every single joint in the body, feel amazingly good to receive, and create an overall deppened connection to self and will help facilitate your inner smile.

Service Provided by Dr Omri Sitton, DC & Larry Bernstein,CST, CPT, FSoc OB

Percussion Vibration Technique

The spinal cord, the body's musculature and our organs are enveloped in fascia, a sheath like covering that is attached to the skeletal system (as an anchoring system).  This technique focuses on releasing trauma, or stored tension and stress from the fascial network.  A percussive instrument is used to facilitate a deep release in various connective tissues of the body.  The vibration used is specific to tissue healing, utilizing variants of Schumann's Resonance (7.83Hz), which is identical to the geomagnetic frequency of the Earth's cavity.  Researchers in the field of physics have found this frequency most conductive to tissue healing (this frequency, incidentally, is also the same as that achieved in meditation, when the brain enters the alpha-wave state).  This specific undulation guides the tissues of the body back to fluidity, our inherent nature.  

If you are looking for deep-tissue work, myofascial release, scar tissue softening or you are simply craving a very relaxing massage, this deep yet gentle session will treat you right.

Service provided by Dr. Omri Sitton, DC.