Deep tissue massage is a massage technique that’s mainly used to treat musculoskeletal issues, such as strains and sports injuries. It involves applying sustained pressure using slow, deep strokes to target the inner layers of your muscles and connective tissues. This helps to break up scar tissue that forms following an injury and reduce tension in muscle and tissue. 

It may also promote faster healing by increasing blood flow and reducing inflammation.

Deep tissue massage offers both physical and psychological benefits. At Thai Clinic, our deep tissue massage techniques focus on treating muscle pain, improve stiffness and also focus on relaxation to help you to unwind mentally too. 

Deep tissue massage helps with:

• Chronic pain
• Lower back pain
• Limited mobility
• Recovery from injuries (e.g. whiplash, falls, sports injury)
• Repetitive strain injury, such as carpal tunnel syndrome
• Postural problems
• Muscle tension in the hamstrings, glutes, IT band, legs, quadriceps, rhomboids, upper back
• Ostearthritis pain
• Sciatica 
• Piriformis syndrome
• Tennis elbow
• Fibromyalgia
• Muscle tension or spasm
• After a workout or bodybuilding

What to expect during your Deep tissue massage at Thai Clinic County Kildare?

Before your deep tissue massage, your massage therapist will want to know about your problem areas. A deep tissue massage can involve your entire body or just one area.

Once ready, you’ll be asked to lie on your stomach, under a towel. Your level of undress is based on your comfort, but the area being worked on will need to be exposed.

The massage therapist will start working on your body with Ischemic compression technique along your trigger points. If you don’t like this technique, you can let massage therapist know to skip this technique. It is important to communicate to the therapist when things hurt and if any soreness or pain you experience is outside your comfort range. Then hot oils and techniques are applied in long flowing strokes over the body to create a feeling of complete relaxation for both the body and mind. 

Will A Deep Tissue Massage Hurt?

It shouldn’t hurt, but it’s likely to be a bit more uncomfortable than a classic Swedish massage. You should always feel free to speak up if the pressure is too much for you.

It’s important to drink a lot of water after a deep tissue massage to help flush lactic acid out of the tissues.

If you don’t, you might be sore the next day.

It’s possible that you might feel some soreness the day after a deep tissue massage even if you DO drink water. This just means a lot of waste products were flushed out of the tissues. It should pass within a day or so.

How Fast Will I Get Results With A Deep Tissue Massage?

It’s important to be realistic about what one deep tissue massage can achieve. Many people ask for more pressure, thinking that if the therapist just pushes hard enough, they can get rid of all their knots in an hour. This just won’t happen.

In fact, undoing chronic knots and tension built up over a lifetime is best achieved with an integrated program that includes exercise, work on your posture and ways of moving, relaxation techniques and a regular program of massage.