Frozen shoulder, also known as adhesive capsulitis, is a condition characterized by stiffness and pain in your shoulder joint. You are more likely to get frozen shoulder if you’re aged between 40 and 60. People with certain conditions, such as diabetes (either type 1 or type 2).

A dull or aching pain in your affected shoulder, which is often worse when you move your shoulder joint and at night. Stiffness around your shoulder joint that may stop you from moving your shoulder normally. This can make it difficult to do everyday tasks, such as driving or dressing yourself.

Frozen shoulder symptoms may be caused by other problems, such as an injury to your rotator cuff (the tendons and muscles in your shoulder).

Massage therapy and routine stretches can significantly improve your pain associated with frozen shoulder syndrome.

By increasing blood flow to the area, your muscles can relax and inflammation will improve.

This can reduce swelling and tenderness, not just in the shoulder, but also in the surrounding area.

The difference between a sprain and a strain is that a sprain injures the bands of tissue that connect two bones together, while a strain involves an injury to a muscle or to the band of tissue that attaches a muscle to a bone.

Initial treatment includes rest, ice, compression and elevation. You have pain, tenderness or weakness – often around your ankle, foot, wrist, thumb, knee, leg or back. The injured area is swollen or bruised you cannot put weight on the injury or use it normally, you have muscle spasms or cramping – where your muscles painfully tighten on their own.

Overstretched or torn muscle (also known as a pulled muscle) Most common in: knees, feet, legs, back

Torn or twisted ligament (tissue that connects the joints)Most common in: wrists, ankles, thumbs, knees

Therapeutic massage helps loosen tight muscles and increase blood flow to help heal damaged tissues. Applying pressure to the injured muscle tissue also helps remove excess fluid and cellular waste products.

The sciatic nerve is the longest nerve in your body. It starts in your lower back and splits to run through your hips, buttocks, legs, and feet on both sides The most distinctive sign of sciatica is pain that radiates from your lower back into the back or side or your legs. You can also get numbness, tingling, and weakness in your leg or foot.

•  Have an injury / previous injury
•  Are Overweight
•  Lack of strong core
•  Have an active, physical job
•  Have diabetes
•  Have Osteoarthritis
•  Herniated or slipped disk
•  Degenerative Disc Disease

The sciatic nerve is the longest nerve in your body. It starts in your lower back and splits to run through your hips, buttocks, legs, and feet on both sides The most distinctive sign of sciatica is pain that radiates from your lower back into the back or side or your legs. You can also get numbness, tingling, and weakness in your leg or foot.

Whiplash is the term used to describe a neck injury caused by a sudden movement of the head forwards, backwards or sideways. The sudden, vigorous movement of the head damages the ligaments and tendons in the neck.

The symptoms of whiplash often take a while to develop after an accident. Any inflammation (swelling) and bruising in the neck muscles won't usually be obvious at the time of the accident, it may take 6 to 12 hours for the symptoms of whiplash to become apparent. The pain and stiffness is often worse on the day after the injury.

•  Neck pain and stiffness
•  Neck swelling
•  Tenderness along the back of the neck
•  A reduction in, or loss of movement in, the neck
•  Headaches
•  Other symptoms include: lower back pain, pain, numbness or pins and needles in the arms and hands, muscle spasms, dizziness, tiredness, difficulty swallowing, blurred vision, vertigo (the sensation that you are moving or spinning), and tinnitus (ringing in the ears)

Massage is the most effective treatment for breaking up and realigning scar tissue and increasing mobility associated with Whiplash. Any massage that causes a general relaxation of the client’s muscles can help relieve muscular pain in common types of whiplash injuries.

Trigger point therapy works by releasing tension held in tight knots of muscle. And any type of bodywork that stimulates circulation helps ease and prevent headaches.

Myofascial trigger points, also known as trigger points, are described as hyperirritable spots in the skeletal muscle. They are associated with palpable nodules in taut bands of muscle fibers.

A trigger point causes referral pain to other parts of the body and usually originates from a constricted area within the muscle tissue. Muscle knots either can be painful upon touch or can cause persistent pain around a specific area on your body. Trigger point massage uses cycles of isolated pressure and releases to alleviate the source of pain. The pain around a muscle knot can either be a dull ache or sharp and intense. Trigger point massage aims to ease the tension around constricted areas in the muscles to reduce inflammation and alleviate pain.

•  A sedentary lifestyle
•  Poor diet
•  Dehydration
•  Too much stress
•  Not enough sleep
•  Over-exercising

Trigger point massage involves deep muscle work, particularly in areas of the body that cause you pain. That being said, you can expect a bit of discomfort during and for a few days after the massage.