Probably the most common question I receive is how many treatments will it take to correct my soft tissue imbalances?

The answer usually has to do with how long it took you to create the imbalance? Some issues are the result of sudden trauma, like a car accident. Or an awkward fall. In these cases, you might have very specific localized damage that hasn’t created too many compensations in your body, and your pain can dramatically improve very quickly with the proper focused treatments.

The flip side of this would be someone with a desk job who has been hunched over their screen for the past 30 years. By the time you reach the pain threshold, your body has created many compensations to hold your “hunching” imbalances.

A client who has been seated and awkwardly hunched over for 30 years might have a leg that is now too short from tightened and shortened leg muscles, a shoulder that is too high from tight tendons, a neck tilted dramatically forward from weak and lengthened neck muscles, and a shoulder blade pulled both upwards and forward due to overly tight chest and neck muscles.

For this second client an “unwinding” must occur. In practical terms, this means the body has to return to less scar tissue in multiple areas, and a general “loosening” of the tight soft tissues contributing to the imbalances.

So the answer to the question of how many treatments do you need? Is how much damage have you done, for how long, and where? Many of my clients have been in chronic pain for years, and Precision Massage is their last line of defense against more invasive measures like surgery and disability.