Massage & Manual Therapy
The healing art of massage is thousands of years old. Ancient civilizations, including Chinese, Hindus, Persians and Egyptians, used massage to treat pain and promote health. It is currently one of the most popular wellness therapies in the United States.
Massage is soft tissue manipulation – the stroking, rubbing and kneading of muscles. It is used to relieve tension, relax muscles and stimulate nerves. It is thought to promote healing by stimulating the movement of blood and lymphatic fluids.
There are many different types of massage and massage techniques are used in many forms of bodywork, including reflexology, trigger point therapy, manual lymph drainage and others. Massage may be used to treat a wide variety of conditions including muscle and joint pain, soft tissue injuries, arthritis, chronic fatigue, depression, anxiety, high blood pressure and diabetes.
All Massage Therapists who practice at the Barnet Tradepost Wellness Center are licensed and are members of the American Massage Therapy Association.
Please contact the Barnet Tradepost Wellness Center to discuss your needs or to schedule an appointment with one of our Massage Therapists.
Massage Therapists at Barnet Tradepost Wellness Center
Laurajean (Lj) Stewart
You can learn more about Lj and her massage therapy experience by visiting her website, Thousand Hands Massage Therapy. Although Lj is predominantly retired from “hands-on”, she is available for consultation.
Click here to read an article about massage on the Vermont Maturity Magazine website that includes comments by Lj Stewart.
On July 16th, 2024 at World Massage Festival in Cherokee, NC, Lj was inducted into the World Massage Therapy Hall of Fame.
David Hammond
Visit David’s website, davidhammondmassage.com, for information about David and his massage practice
Dominique Meyers
Dominique is a graduate of The Muscular Therapy Institute in Cambridge, MA and has been in clinical practice since 1995. In 2009 Dominique began specializing in Myofascial Release as taught by John F. Barnes, PT.
Myofascial Release as a soft tissue manual therapy has a unique ability to take the pressure out of pain sensitive tissues. MFR has been proven affective at relieving symptoms associated with a wide range of conditions such as fibromyalgia, myofascial pain syndrome, headaches, TMJ, whiplash and post surgical scar tissue as well as pain resulting from trauma, repetitive strain (micro trauma) and postural misalignments.
Massage Therapy Hall of Fame
What is the Massage Therapy Hall of Fame?
The Hall of Fame has been created to honor those having furthered the profession of massage therapy. These folks are the Bridge Builders for all massage therapists.
The Bridge Builder
An old man going a lone highway,
Came, at the evening cold and gray,
To a chasm vast and deep and wide.
Through which was flowing a sullen tide
The old man crossed in the twilight dim,
The sullen stream had no fear for him;
But he turned when safe on the other side
And built a bridge to span the tide.
“Old man,” said a fellow pilgrim near,
“You are wasting your strength with building here;
Your journey will end with the ending day,
You never again will pass this way;
You’ve crossed the chasm, deep and wide,
Why build this bridge at evening tide?”
The builder lifted his old gray head;
“Good friend, in the path I have come,” he said,
“There followed after me to-day
A youth whose feet must pass this way.
This chasm that has been as naught to me
To that fair-haired youth may a pitfall be;
He, too, must cross in the twilight dim;
Good friend, I am building this bridge for him!”
