With over 15 years of bodywork and massage experience, Charlotte is excited to be offering her services at Life Chiropractic.

Charlotte has completed a 3200 hour Registered Massage Therapy Diploma program in Vancouver, and has obtained additional certifications in Reflexology, Reiki, Thai Massage, Cranial-Sacral Therapy, Visceral Manipulation
as well as Myofascial Release. Charlottes’ background as a weight training and yoga instructor, also enables her to easily adapt home care exercises to suite your needs.

Whether you’re interested in a preventative program that focuses on improving posture, reducing stress, increasing circulation while removing toxins, or a rehabilitative program, that works on regaining strength and flexibility, function and movement, while reducing pain and discomfort, Charlotte is here to help!

Benefits of Massage Therapy

Useful for all of the conditions listed below and more, massage can:

•  Alleviate low-back pain and improve range of motion.
•  Assist with shorter, easier labor for expectant mothers and shorten maternity hospital stays.
• Ease medication dependence.
• Enhance immunity by stimulating lymph flow—the body’s natural defense system.
• Exercise and stretch weak, tight, or atrophied muscles.
• Help athletes of any level prepare for, and recover from, strenuous workouts.
• Improve the condition of the body’s largest organ—the skin.
• Increase joint flexibility.
• Lessen depression and anxiety.
• Promote tissue regeneration, reducing scar tissue and stretch marks.
•  Pump oxygen and nutrients into tissues and vital organs, improving circulation.
• Reduce post-surgery adhesions and swelling.
• Reduce spasms and cramping.
• Relax and soften injured, tired, and overused muscles.
• Release endorphins—amino acids that work as the body’s natural painkiller.
• Relieve migraine pain.

Experts estimate that upwards of ninety percent of disease is stress related. And perhaps nothing ages us faster, internally and externally, than high stress. While eliminating anxiety and pressure altogether in this fast-paced world may be idealistic, massage can, without a doubt, help manage stress. This translates into:

• Decreased anxiety.
• Enhanced sleep quality. 
• Greater energy.
• Improved concentration.
•  Increased circulation.
• Reduced fatigue.

Profound Effects

In response to massage, specific physiological and chemical changes cascade throughout the body, with profound effects. Research shows that with massage:

• Arthritis sufferers note fewer aches and less stiffness and pain.
•  Asthmatic children show better pulmonary function and increased peak air flow.
•  Burn injury patients report reduced pain, itching, and anxiety.
• High blood pressure patients demonstrate lower diastolic blood pressure, anxiety, and stress
• hormones.
•  Premenstrual syndrome sufferers have decreased water retention and cramping.
•  Arthritis sufferers note fewer aches and less stiffness and pain.
• Asthmatic children show better pulmonary function and increased peak air flow.
• Burn injury patients report reduced pain, itching, and anxiety.
• High blood pressure patients demonstrate lower diastolic blood pressure, anxiety, and stress
• hormones.
•  Premenstrual syndrome sufferers have decreased water retention and cramping.
• Preterm infants have improved weight gain.

Increase Health Benefits with Frequent Visits

Receiving regular massage can help prevent ailments within our bodies. Consider massage therapy appointments a necessary piece of your health and wellness plan, and work with your practitioner to establish a treatment schedule that best meets your needs.

Review the research studies below examining the benefits of massage therapy:

www.massagetherapycanada.com/research https://www.rmtbc.ca/about/research massagetherapyfoundation.org/massage-research