Tag: 2 Your Health

2 Your Health: Pain Management: How Can Massage Help?

Heidi Overman, Licensed Massage Therapist Pain. It will disrupt your day. Your week. Your month. Your retirement years. But what can you do? A lifetime of medications? Surgeries? Shots? How about regular massage? Yes, regular massage can help with muscular pain management. Have you ever had a doctor tell you that your pain is muscular? Then…

2 Your Health: Plantar Fasciitis and Massage Therapy

Heidi Overman, Licensed Massage Therapist Plantar fasciitis is a very common issue. It is painful and can even be debilitating. I have many clients come in exasperated from trying to help relieve plantar fasciitis pain. Just this week I had one client who had been battling it for over two years and another for over a…

2 Your Health: Memory and Massage

Heidi Overman, Licensed Massage Therapist #MT-24997 Memory loss, Alzheimer’s disease, dementia … As we age, our memory tends to get away from us. We find ourselves searching for words that were once easy to retrieve. We can’t remember the name of our new neighbor. You walk in a room … wait, what was I saying? Oh…

2 Your Health: Surviving the Holidays with Massage

Heidi Overman, Licensed Massage Therapist, #MT-24997 It’s my favorite time of year, Autumn. Everyone is hustling and bustling. We are cleaning our homes, decorating for the upcoming holidays, shopping, and preparing for parties! Super fun! It’s also my most stressful time of year, Autumn. Everyone is hustling and bustling. We are cleaning our homes, decorating for the…

2 Your Health: What Causes Injuries to your Muscles?

Heidi Overman, Licensed Massage Therapist, #MT-24997 It’s common in my practice to see and help clients with muscular injuries. Often, clients come in in pain, but they don’t know what happened or how they could’ve hurt themselves. I often hear, “I was just taking the laundry out of the dryer,” or “I just reached and…

2 Your Health: What Makes a Good Massage?

Heidi Overman, Licensed Massage Therapist You may have come back from having a massage and thought, “that wasn’t very good.” Sometimes you do not know why, and sometimes you know exactly why. It was definitely the therapist. The therapist didn’t meet your needs. You had wished you told them more pressure or less pressure or to…

2 Your Health: How Often Should I Get a Massage?

Heidi Overman, Licensed Massage Therapist, #MT-24997 Most of my clients ask me, “How often should I get a massage?” This can be a tough question. Because our bodies have gone through different things—we have all had different levels of exercise, different jobs, and adventures through the years—the type of bodywork and how regularly can differ. I like…