Combination Treatments

MASSAGE & STRETCHING

The combination of deep tissue massage and targeted stretching can further lengthen the muscles, improve flexibility, and reinforce proper movement patterns to support faster recovery, and improve athletic performance and overall body mechanics.
Here’s how stretching aids and complements massage:

  1. Improves range of motion – Stretching helps maintain and improve joint mobility, allowing the body to move more freely after treatment.

  2. Extends the benefits of massage – Massage can reduce muscle tension, while stretching helps reinforce that relaxed, lengthened feeling.

  3. Targets areas massage may not fully address – Stretching can influence muscles and connective tissues through a greater range of motion than hands-on work alone.

  4. Improves movement patterns – Combining massage with stretching can help address restrictions that contribute to compensations and inefficient movement.

  5. Supports recovery and maintenance – Prevents muscles from reverting to a tightened state, and promote long-lasting mobility and balance.

We recommend assisted stretching as an integral part of your massage session to help you move and feel your best.

MYOFASCIAL DRY NEEDLING & MASSAGE/STRETCHING

This combination accelerates recovery, improves flexibility, and helps lock in the benefits of dry needling. Gentle massage or stretching after dry needling ensures that muscles don’t revert to dysfunctional patterns and instead adapt to a healthier state.

Here’s how massage and stretching aids muscle fibres and recovery post-needling:

  1. Restores Muscle Length and Elasticity
    Dry needling can deactivate tight knots (trigger points), but massage and stretching helps restore the muscle’s natural length and flexibility. It encourages the newly released muscle fibres to lengthen and return to a healthier resting state.

  2. Promotes Collagen Alignment
    Post-needling, the body initiates tissue repair and remodelling. Massage and stretching supports the alignment of collagen fibres (which are part of the healing process) in a more organized pattern, reducing the risk of scar tissue or adhesions forming within the muscle or fascia.

  3. Enhances Blood Circulation
    Massage and stretching after dry needling further improves local blood flow, delivering oxygen and nutrients that support muscle recovery and help clear metabolic waste (such as lactic acid) from the treated area.

  4. Supports Neuromuscular Re-education
    After a trigger point is released, the brain and nervous system need to "relearn" proper movement patterns. Massage and stretching helps by reinforcing healthy range of motion and reactivating proper muscle firing sequences.

  5. Reduces Post-Treatment Soreness
    Some people feel soreness after dry needling, similar to a workout. Gentle massage or stretching can help reduce this discomfort by improving circulation and reducing muscle stiffness.