"EMERGENCY MASSAGE" VS "MAINTENANCE MASSAGE"

A lot of people that come in for a massage aren't regular clients, meaning they only pop in once in a while when they're in too much pain or too stressed to handle it on their own. On the other side of that is the regular client, the one who comes in consistently as part of an ongoing treatment plan set up to act more as a general upkeep. We've had people ask about the pros and cons of coming in for massage regularly, so here's a general list of what regular massage treatment can do for you along with why it's more beneficial versus coming in whenever you feel pain:

Pros

- As part of an ongoing treatment plan, regular massage clients build a better rapport with their therapist and a better working relationship. This allows the therapist to be more "in-tune" with the client's body and gives them a better idea of what's needed. 

- Having a regularly scheduled massage gives you something to look forward to! Imagine sitting at your desk on a Friday, working tirelessly, to see the sticky-note you left yourself reminding you of your massage appointment later that evening. All of a sudden your day just gets a little brighter knowing you'll be jump-starting your weekend in just a few hours!

- Massage clients that suffer from chronic pain can actually improve over time when seeing a massage therapist regularly due to an ongoing treatment plan put together by the therapist and client. If a client were to suffer from chronic pain in their back/shoulders, for example, the massage therapist can work on that area and slowly reduce the tension, muscle aches and pain felt in the area while also working on the rest of the body. 

- Regular massage helps with depression, anxiety, insomnia/sleeplessness, stress and many others. This is something we have covered several times across multiple blog posts! 

Cons

- Finding money to get massages regularly can be difficult, especially with how crazy the world is sometimes. Financially, "splurging" on yourself for a massage seems like too much, or you don't deserve it. Let's leave it at this: it's not spoiling yourself to make sure you feel good, just like you're not spoiling yourself by visiting your doctor for your annual checkup!

- Everyone's schedules in this day and age are various and inconstant. That can make scheduling regular appointments difficult, especially if you're visiting a clinic where your therapist has several other clients. In an ideal world, coming in every week at the same time would be the best, but sometimes life just gets in the way. However, as long as you're coming in fairly regularly, you're doing your body justice!

Time and money are the two biggest factors when it comes to people not coming in for a massage. Many clinics, including our own, will offer discounts to people who purchase a massage package (multiple massage sessions) ahead of time, allowing them to pay once, save some money, and not worry about having to pay after every single session. Time is a completely different factor though. That's something that needs to be worked out with your life style, schedule and your therapist's schedule. 

Sometimes people are discouraged at first by the "lack of results" after a few sessions, and still have chronic pain. However, 10+ years of pain will not be resolved in only a few sessions as it takes time and hard work to get through the worst of it before you can get better. Coming in only when the pain becomes unbearable is simply not ideal because you're not doing much to help reduce future occurrences of a "flare-up." 

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Coming in regularly for massage is more beneficial when compared to only coming in when you're in pain simply because having consistent work done on your body will further your improvement and you can get a lot more resolved by coming in often. If you were to think of massage along the same lines as working out, and decided to only work out once in a few months, you wouldn't see any improvement in muscle definition and would be discouraged by the results. If you were to work out consistently, however, you would see much more improvement in your strength, flexibility and muscle tone. Massage is the same way. In order to get better results, it's important to come in frequently enough to actually allow those results to show. 

  
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