Dianella Sports And Remedial Massage

What is Massage?

What is massage and what role does it play in health care?

Massage is the practice of influencing soft tissue by physical, functional, and in some cases psychological purposes and goals by accredited professionals.

Complementary and alternative medicines are attracting more and more attention within the context of health care provision and health sector reform. The term alternative medicine, as used in the modern western world, encompasses any healing practice “that does not fall within the realm of conventional medicine”. Complementary medicine generally refers to the same interventions when used in conjunction with mainstream techniques.

The question: What is massage can be contextualized within complementary and alternative medicines because it can be used either independently, or along with mainstream techniques.

What is massage therapy?

Massage or manual bodywork comes under the category of complementary or allied health in Australia. Massage professionals and professional areas belong to the ever growing group of allied health professionals and their subspecialties.

Because their job descriptions become more specialized, massage therapists must adhere to national training and education standards, their professional scope of practice, and often prove their skills through diplomas, certified credentials, and continuing education. Members of the profession must be proficient in the use of many skills.

Your massage professional should be able to give you a comprehensive answer to the question of what is massage therapy and – more importantly – how it will benefit your particular needs.

What is massage technique?

Massage is the practice of influencing soft tissue by physical, functional, and in some cases psychological purposes and goals by accredited professionals. Massage involves acting on and inspiring the client’s body with pressure (structured, unstructured, stationary, and/or moving), tension, motion, or vibration done manually or with mechanical aids. Target tissues may include muscles, tendons, ligaments, skin, joints, or other connective tissue, as well as lymphatic vessels, and/or organs. Massage can be applied with the hands, fingers, elbows, forearm, and feet.

There are over eighty different massage modalities. The most cited reasons for introducing different massage modalities have been client demand and perceived clinical effectiveness.

The AAMT has adopted a broad scope of practice that outlines what is massage therapy.

Scope of Practice

The intent of the Scope of Practice is not to be a restrictive description of massage therapy but an inclusive expression of the core characteristics of massage therapy.

The following points are what the AAMT believes to be the essential characteristics of massage therapy in Australia.

Hands on practice

Touch (which may, or may not involve physical touch)
Direct and immediate communication on possibly several levels between client and practitioner
Commitment to client well being
Massage is known to promote health and is probably the oldest healing discipline known to man.

What is massage – the origins of the word

The word “massage” has many different Ancient roots, from the French massageis “friction of kneading,” or from Arabic massa meaning “to touch, feel or handle” or from Latin massa meaning “mass, dough”. In distinction the ancient Greek word for massage was anatripsis, and the Latin was frictio. An older etymology may even have been the Hebrew me-sakj “to anoint with oil”.

Principal – Fred Van Andel

Fred graduated with a Diploma of Remedial Massage from Central Institute of Technology, Perth in 2003. As a requirement of the AAMT to maintain professional relevance Fred continually upgrades his skills to keep abreast with the latest techniques to provide best practice therapeutic massage.

Fred is also a personal trainer (Fitness Cert III and IV) and has a Post Graduate Degree in OSH majoring in ergonomics.

Fred is a keen swimmer having participated at national and international Masters competitions and is a Level 2 Masters swim coach.

He has volunteered at Solaris Care (cancer) at SCG Hospital. He also currently works for the Multiple Sclerosis Society of WA for over ten years and also part-time at a busy physiotherapy clinic.

Fred is well credentialed and experienced to advise on fitness, exercises, wellness, weight loss and safe work practice ergonomics.

QUALIFICATIONS

Dip Remedial Massage
Cert IV Fitness
Ba Ed
Grad Dip OH&S Majoring in Ergonomics (Curtin Uni)
Dip Reflexology
Level 2M Masters swim coach

Member (Remedial) Australian Association of Massage Therapists (AAMT)

Dianella Sports And Remedial Massage in Dianella, Perth, WA categorized under Massage specialising in services such as Trigger Point Therapy, Sports Massage, Foot Reflexology.

Some other services offered by Dianella Sports And Remedial Massage include Reiki, Deep Tissue Massage, Shiatsu Massage, Full Body Massage, Lymphatic Draining, Swedish Massage, Remedial Massage, Massage.

Call Dianella Sports And Remedial Massage to ask about our services.

Services

• Trigger points
• Deep tissue
• Muscle energy technique
• Sustained myofascial
  tension
• Manual lymphatic
  drainage (MLD)
• Swedish
• Sports massage
• Stress
• Depression
• Thai table massage
• Shiatsu
• Tragger
• Foot reflexology
• Reiki