Benefits of Massage Therapy & Children and New Addition to DT&R!

     As Published in Dynamic Massage Focus Newsletter

Imagine lying on a massage table. As your massage therapist sets to work, you feel your body relax. Your muscles soften your nervous system calms. Now, imagine how you feel when the massage is over--relaxed, alert, calm, and content.

Anyone who has gotten a massage understands the many benefits that it offers. Massage is usually reserved for adults--or sometimes infants--but what about massage for kids and adolescents? If massage helps calm the body and improve alertness, how might it help children.

Providing gentle massage to children is one of the great joys a massage therapist can experience. Children respond very differently to touch and are often willing and excited recipients. Typically, they like to engage more actively than adults when receiving massage and a variety of different techniques can be used to enhance their massage experience. Surprisingly, pediatric massage is a field that has been given very little attention until now. Pediatric massage is a natural extension of working with the whole family and for massage therapists an outstanding way to expand their practice into a family practice. It is a special opportunity to be able to work with children and parents and to demonstrate simple massage strokes that parents can use with their children

It is recommended that children between the age of 3 and 14 receive regular Massage Therapy treatments every 8 weeks.



For more information, email one of our Registered Massage Therapist at info@dynamictraining.ca




We would Also Like to welcome a new trainer to Dynamic Training & Rehabilitation; Jeff Aldham from All Body Conditioning.

Here is a word from Jeff:

"Sport Specific training is a fancy term thrown around by trainers and therapists all over the fitness industry. What is 'sport-specific training'? Sport-specific training is another word for Functional Training. "







"The main goal of strength and conditioning trainers at All Body Conditioning is keeping the athlete injury free. Although the training mimics sport, the chances of an ABC athlete becoming injured are far less then your typical "gym routine". If you purchased and own a membership at a typical gym, what do you see in your gym? Lots of fancy strength and cardio machines that only isolates one joint at a time in a linear motion. Most of these fancy machines have you training in a seated position. What sport requires you to sit down (other then rowing)? What sport or daily movement can you think of that you only use one joint (compared to a mulit-joint) movement or only moves in a constant, forward, linear motion? "

Look out for Jeff at Canadian Human Performance Centre and Dynamic Training & Rehabilitation this week!