Understand your discomfort. Find your starting point.
Recurring tension, stiffness or difficulty moving can affect everything from your workday to the activities you enjoy.
Pain & Posture brings together Targeted Massage for Pain & Function, Integrative Functional Massage and Osteopathic Manual Therapy. Each offers a different approach to assessment and hands-on care, with treatment guided by your concerns and goals.
You may know exactly where you feel discomfort without knowing what keeps contributing to it.
Perhaps your neck tightens during long workdays, your back feels restricted during exercise, or the same areas improve temporarily before becoming uncomfortable again.
At Recharge Health, assessment helps guide treatment beyond choosing a technique for a sore spot. Depending on the service, your practitioner may consider relevant soft tissues, joint movement, posture and the movement patterns you use during daily activities.
The goal is to understand your starting point, provide appropriate care and reassess how you respond.
Designed to address pain, posture concerns, movement restrictions and recurring tension patterns.
Your RMT will discuss your symptoms, assess relevant areas and select appropriate hands-on techniques. These may include myofascial techniques, trigger point treatment, deep tissue massage and other soft-tissue approaches.
Choose this when a particular area of muscular discomfort, stiffness or tension is your main priority.
Integrative Functional Massage combines massage therapy with postural assessment and functional movement retraining.
Sessions look at how you stand and move, alongside the areas where you experience discomfort. Hands-on treatment is integrated with learning new movement patterns, helping you work toward changes in how your body handles everyday movement and exercise.
Begin with a Pain & Movement Assessment with Massage Therapy to establish your starting point and discuss an individualized plan.
Choose this when you want an active approach that combines treatment with posture and movement work.
Osteopathic Manual Therapy considers relationships between the body’s structures, including joints, muscles, fascia and other tissues.
Assessment may extend beyond the area where you notice discomfort. Treatment can combine joint mobilization, soft-tissue work, cranial and visceral approaches, according to your concerns, assessment and consent.
Your initial appointment includes both assessment and treatment.
Choose this when you want a whole-body manual assessment for pain, stiffness or movement concerns.
Your practitioner asks about your symptoms, relevant health history, daily activities and what you would like to change.
Assessment is specific to the service you book. You do not need to identify the cause yourself or choose individual techniques before arriving.
Treatment areas and techniques are selected according to your assessment and priorities.
Your practitioner explains the proposed approach and checks your comfort and consent throughout the appointment.
Tell your practitioner what improved, what remained difficult and how you felt after treatment.
That feedback helps guide future care. IFMT appointments also incorporate movement retraining, while other services may include relevant home-care suggestions.
You do not need to be athletic or have a diagnosed injury to begin.
Explore the conditions and concerns that may bring you to Pain & Posture. These guides explain your care options and link to the relevant treatments.
Explore approaches for recurring discomfort, stiffness and the movements that feel restricted.
Learn about treatment options for jaw tension, headaches and carpal tunnel symptoms.
Read how care can be adapted to your comfort, movement abilities and individual goals.
Treatment is individualized following assessment. Where appropriate, care may complement medical treatment or involve referral to another healthcare provider.
Your goals might include turning your head more comfortably, getting through a workday with less tension, or feeling more confident during exercise.
Discuss those practical goals with your practitioner. Progress can be reviewed through changes in symptoms, relevant movement and the activities that matter to you.
Recommendations are individualized rather than based on a fixed treatment schedule for everyone.
Choose Targeted Massage for Pain & Function when your main goal is pain relief through focused hands-on treatment.
Choose Integrative Functional Massage for an active approach to addressing pain and posture concerns that are limiting your movement.
Choose Osteopathic Manual Therapy for a whole-body structural approach to pain and overall function.
If you are still unsure, tell us your main concerns and we can explain the appointment options.
If your main goal is to unwind, ease stress-related physical tension or make time for rest, explore Rest & Reset.
You can still discuss specific areas of tension while choosing an appointment with a restorative focus.
Direct billing is available through participating insurers for eligible Massage Therapy and Osteopathic Manual Therapy appointments.
Coverage differs between services, practitioners and benefits plans. Check the service you intend to book and any referral requirements before your appointment.
No. Bring a description of what you notice, when it happens and which activities are affected.
Your practitioner will assess within their scope and discuss an appropriate approach. If your symptoms need another type of assessment, they can recommend that you seek additional care.
No. Pain & Posture is a pathway that includes several services.
IFMT specifically combines hands-on treatment with movement retraining. Targeted Massage and Osteopathy primarily involve assessment and hands-on care, with recommendations adapted to your needs.
Yes. Stiffness, movement difficulty and recurring muscular tension can also be reasons to book.
Explain what feels limited and what you would like to do more comfortably so your practitioner can assess your concerns.
Recommendations depend on your concerns, goals and response to care.
Some people book for a specific issue, while others choose ongoing care or a movement-focused plan. Your practitioner will discuss recommendations with you rather than assume everyone needs the same schedule.
Explore the differences between focused massage, integrated movement care and Osteopathic Manual Therapy.
