Massage / Pain Management / Pain relief

Massage is an excellent way to help with pain due to chronic conditions from disease, injuries or repetitive movement.  Trigger points are more than likely the culprit and can cause local tenderness and if sufficiently hypersensitive referred pain.  Trigger points are also the reason for stiffness and pain in joints. Trigger point therapy can greatly improve pain levels in people dealing with these conditions.

Nueromuscular Therapy / Trigger Point

"A focus of hyper irritability in a tissue that when compressed is locally tender and if sufficiently hypersensitive gives rise to referred pain and tenderness"  Janet Travell

Trigger point don't exist in health tissue.

Neuromuscular Massage Therapy work focuses on the treatment of trigger points.

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Homeostasis, Health and Soft Tissue

The body's ability to maintain homeostasis is a determining factor in the degree of ones health.  It is important that the mind / body be able adapt and respond to different kinds of stress and maintain a balance with the body's physiological systems.  Maintaining homeostasis is a very important goal to ones health.

Temporal-Mandibular Joint (TMJ)

Many people suffer with TMJ in this high stress world we live in.  Part of my training is to treat this condition using an intraoral technique treating the Masseter, Medial Pterygoid, and the Lateral Pterygoid muscles.  This technique is highly effective in treating this condition.

Massage Therapy some of the benefits...

Massage Therapy should not be perceived as a luxury but as a necessary way to maintain health and well being.  Massage therapy relieves pain, stress, increases circulation,lowering certain hormone levels that cause stress and depression.  Reducing mental and physical fatigue is one of the keys to improving your quality of life.  The power of human touch!

Welcome to Body Mechanics Massage

Denise Patterson is APF's Massage Therapist.  Her business is Body Mechanics Massage Therapy, LLC.

Denise graduated from the Atlanta School of Massage in 2001.  She is certified in Clinical Massage Therapy (CMT) and Neuromuscular Massage Therapy (NMT) and specializes in Deep Tissue, Orthopedic, Sports, Trigger Point, Myofascial Release, Pregnancy, and TMJ.
Her direct line is 706-338-9371.