Mild Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy

ACT Remedial Therapy Massage has Canberra’s only Hyperbaric Oxygen Chamber. This is a specially designed inflatable chamber where your body is exposed to a higher-than-normal atmospheric pressure. This causes a super saturation of oxygen in your blood plasma and tissue fluids, creating an environment where cells can be more receptive to repair and recovery. Your body utilises oxygen better and functions more efficiently, which promotes healing, health and fitness.

Mild Hyperbaric Oxygen therapy is used as an adjunctive therapy in sports medicine to enhance recovery for athletes. Oxygen therapy is also helpful in treating some chronic diseases and maximises the benefits of other treatment types. It can help decrease post-operative inflammation and infection and encourage normal healing processes.

Deep Muscular Therapy

Often, if you have an injury, the muscles around the area go into spasm. They become tight and painful, limiting your movement and increasing the recovery time for sprains, strains, overuse syndrome, whiplash and work related or motor vehicle accidents. Releasing the spasm in the muscles can reduce the pain, stiffness and restriction of movement, encouraging flexibility, mobility and circulation to the affected areas.

Sports/Remedial

Using massage techniques specific to the injured area helps the injured muscle to heal correctly and reduces the chance that scar tissue will form and restrict muscle movement. This kind of massage focuses on keeping muscles supple/flexible, reducing the chances of excess damage and allowing a faster recovery.

Reflexology

Reflexology is gentle manipulation or pressing on certain parts of the hands or feet to produce an effect elsewhere in the body. The fundamental principle is one of releasing tension and encouraging the full blood supply to areas in distress. Reflexology also stimulates the subtle flow of energy, revitalizing the whole organism. People of all ages, from babies to the elderly, can benefit from reflex massage. It can be very helpful for very elderly people with failing circulation, and where acrocyanosis (blueness of the extremities) is present a remarkable change takes place. The hands and feet return to a natural colour after a few treatments.