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Below
is information about my Massage Therapy Practice. If
you have questions or wish to schedule an appointment,
please telephone at the number below.
Scheduling
I
work Mondays and
Tuesdays by appointment.
I
schedule sessions by telephone at
617 661 5800.
Please call between 9 am and 9 pm Eastern
Time.
Please do not schedule, cancel or reschedule by
e-mail, as I check the phone messages
much more frequently.
Directions
I
work in a beautiful, sunny office at Cambridge
Health Associates at 335
Broadway, Cambridge, Massachusetts. CHA is in a Victorian building
just outside of Central Square. There
is free parking behind the building as well
as on-street parking. The building
is clearly marked with a large white sign
and list of services.
To
get to CHA from the Central Square Red Line
T station (the intersection of River Street/Prospect
Street with Massachusetts Avenue), walk or
drive up Prospect Street three blocks to Broadway. Turn
left at the stoplight onto Broadway, where there
is a Store 24 on the corner. Cambridge Health Associates is the
fourth house on the right. Park in
the lot behind the building.
Get
more detailed directions to Cambridge
Health Associates from the West, North, etc.
Who
are my clients?
I
enjoy seeing clients from all walks of life,
in various places in the life cycle. I
am interested in how daily stresses in the home
and workplace play out in muscular tension,
and I see people with tension ranging from the
ordinary to the extraordinary. Over
years of practice I have worked with artists,
musicians, athletes--people in many occupations
with various complex health conditions.
Prenatal Massage
Another full-time occupation is pregnancy and childrearing. In
pregnancy, dramatic changes in body structure
lead to unique tension patterns that massage
can help alleviate. Over the years I have
worked with pregnant and postpartum women, with
infants and new parents.
People with Cancer
I
work with many people with
cancer histories and in cancer treatment. This
is a natural extension of my interest in
occupational tension, as many people feel
like cancer treatment is a full-time job! It
certainly brings its own muscle tension patterns. Some
good science is emerging to support our clinical
observations of massage benefits in people with cancer.
See Cancer
and Massage FAQs for more information.
I
find that massage can be helpful during all
kinds of health crises. It has benefits for people
during treatment, at end of life, in the process
of diagnosis, and during long years of survivorship. In
particular, for people in cancer treatment (or
in the year of recovery from treatment), a regularly-scheduled
session provides something to look forward to. It
is a therapeutic intervention that isn't painful--so
it has a lot to recommend it! It may help
manage symptoms such as pain, anxiety, poor sleep,
muscle tension and nausea. Moreover, regular
massage seems to ease depression and help body
image.
How often should massage be scheduled?
Massage
therapy can be useful on an as-needed basis
or as a regular part of preventive health care.
The
course of therapeutic massage is defined by
the client's goals and is agreed upon between
therapist and client.
Some
choose to come in monthly or biweekly, choosing
regular sessions over frequent ones.
I
think regularity is more important than frequency
if one is trying to stay on top of muscular
tension to prevent it from building.
Others
have a specific goal of tension reduction and
choose weekly sessions to gather momentum for
this goal.
Still
others choose to come in as-needed, when
stressful times dictate. Each
of these plans is suitable for a given client scenario,
and allows individualized care.
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