Northampton Massage Therapist

Patty Gates, provides Northampton MA customers top quality Massage Therapist services. In the same location since 1991, Patty specializes in Therapeutic Massage, Pain Relief and Trauma Recovery. Known as a skilled, compassionate and intuitive provider, Patty Gates, has become one of Northampton MA’s leading providers.

Using a creative combination of: Swedish and Zen Massage, Deep Cranial Relaxation, Reflexology, Energy Balancing, Heated Stones helping you to be more at peace and listening on many levels, Patty will custom design your session to meet your needs.

Benefits from massage:

• Provides deep relaxation
• Relieves muscle tension & stiffness
• Reduces muscle spasms
• Improves circulation
• Can stimulate the release of endorphins
• Relieves tension related headaches & eye strain
• Strengthens the immune system
• Provides a relaxed state of alertness
• Enhances capacity for calm thinking & creativity
• Creates a feeling of well being
• Reduces levels of anxiety

Message From Patty Gates:

I will do everything possible to ensure that your massage experience is positive and rewarding. You may be asked about your reasons for getting a Massage like; current physical conditions, medical history, lifestyle, stress level, areas of pain, and other pertinent topics.You’ll be asked to undress in private and get under the sheet and blanket, on a comfortable padded table. You may leave your undergarments on or off, at your discretion. I will un-drape only the part of your body being massaged, ensuring that your modesty is respected at all times.

You should expect a peaceful and comfortable environment for your massage. The room will always be the perfect temperature for your relaxation. I would like to know if there is any kind of distraction, whether physical discomfort, room temperature, volume of music, or any other source that diminishes the experience of your massage.

For more information get in touch with us at: (413)626-6219

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Get Stress Relief, Massage in Northampton

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Get a Massage in Northampton from Patty Gates because, “Massage therapy is beneficial for almost all diseases. For example 80 percent of disease is stress-related, and massage reduces stress. ” Sandra McLanahan, MD

Stress,  Everyone experiences it. No one is immune because stress is a necessary component of life.

What stress does to you and why get a Massage in Northampton

Your body reacts unconsciously to situations you find threatening. It’s emergency stress response primes you for fight or flight by causing certain physiological changes to take place:

• your body produces additional adrenaline
• your heart beats faster and more blood flows into your larger muscles
• your breathing becomes shallow, and you start to perspire
• the functioning of your immune and digestive systems is inhibited
• the flow of blood to your extremities and internal organs is decreased.

Frequent or unrelenting stress can damage your body, ultimately leading to discomfort or pain. It’s a contributing factor in most disease processes. The adverse effects of stress can manifest themselves as:

• changes in blood sugar
• colitis
• headaches
• heart disease
• high blood pressure
• hypertension
• ulcers

You can understand why accumulated stress and tension can spoil much of the pleasure and productivity you find in life.

The antidote to stress is the relaxation response. A great way to get that is a Massage in Northampton

During the relaxation response, your endocrine and nervous systems activate changes to slow your heart rate, improve your circulation and digestion, and relax your muscles–in direct counteraction to the stress response.

There are many activities that can trigger the relaxation response, such as exercise, deep breathing, meditation,  listen to soothing music or a Massage with Patty Gates!

Of course, one of the best methods to combat stress is a therapeutic Massage. Massage can dramatically reverse the damaging physiological effects of stress by helping to:

• lower your heart rate and blood pressure
• improve your blood circulation
• raise your skin temperature
• heighten your sense of well-being
• drop your anxiety level

During the massage, your tight muscles tend to relax and the pain associated with chronic tension is relieved. Increased circulation will supply more oxygen and nutrients to your muscles and help rid them of metabolic waste. Massage also stimulates release of the body’s own natural pain killer–the endorphinbs.

You can avoid the damaging effects of chronic stress and gain some control over your sense of well-being by getting a regular Massage in Northampton to put you in touch with your body, teaching you to monitor its signals and needs so you’ll know when you should take time out from the things that worry you.

About Massage

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Massage Therapy is a profession in which the practitioner applies manual techniques, and may apply adjunctive therapies, with the intention of positively affecting the health and well-being of the client.

What massage can do for you:

• provide anything from soothing relaxation to deeper therapy for specific physical problems.
• relieve symptoms of stress and anxiety
• increase the nourishing blood supply to your tissues
• improve energy and alertness
• aid your recovery from pulled muscles or sprained ligaments
• ease many of the uncomfortable stresses of childbearing, including edema, backaches, and exhaustion.
• relieve certain repetitive motion injuries related to on-the-job activities.
• greatly reduce your pain, if you suffer from such problems as temporal mandibular joint dysfunction (TMJ) or carpal tunnel syndrome.
• compensate, at least part in part, for lack of exercise and muscular contraction if you’re a person who, because of age, injury, or illness, is forced to remain inactive.

Once your session is underway, a whole range of beneficial reactions is set in motion. This therapy can:

• hasten the elimination of waste and toxins stored in your muscles
• increase the interchange of substances between the blood and tissue cells
• heighten the oxygenation of tissues
• stimulate the relaxation response within your nervous system

All these responses to massage can:

• help to strengthen your immune system
• improve your posture
• increase your joint flexibility and range of motion
• lower your blood pressure

There are some instances when the use of massage might not be appropriate. Be sure to consult your physician before initiating any program.

As your therapist, I will do everything possible to ensure that your experience is positive and rewarding. You may be asked about your reasons for getting work done, current physical conditions, medical history, lifestyle, stress level, areas of pain, and other pertinent topics.You’ll be asked to undress in private and get under the sheet and blanket, on a comfortable padded table. You may leave your undergarments on or off, at your discretion. I will un-drape only the part of your body being massaged, ensuring that your modesty is respected at all times.

Your should expect a peaceful and comfortable environment for your session. The room will always be the perfect temperature for your relaxation. I would like to know if there is any kind of distraction, whether physical discomfort, room temperature, volume of music, or any other source that diminishes the experience of your massage.

Best Massage Therapist in the World?

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I’ve been serving clients as a massage therapist in Northampton since 1991 and have been told so often that my clients feel I’m the best around here! But today apparently it went global! My client Anna, who has traveled extensively and has had many massages around the world has put forth that I’m the best in the world. Sweet! Thank you Anna.

Massage Therapist, Patty Gates, best in the world says Anna

What’s my secret as a massage therapist to be the best?

I use a creative combination of: Swedish and Zen Massage, Deep Cranial Relaxation, Reflexology, Energy Balancing, Heated Stones to help you relax and to be more at peace. By listening on many levels, I go where your body asks me to go creating a custom session to meet your bodies needs in the moment. Stress is a part of all of our busy lives and we each hold it in our bodies differently. The lower back, neck and shoulders are the most common, but many other parts of the body can hold our stress as well.

For Anna, when she first started to come to me for massage, it was back pain back. She was working on her thesis and having a difficult time finishing due to her pain. It didn’t take long to get her back to feeling strong and back pain free because that is the bodies natural state! A little gentle, intuitive guidance was all that was required to coax that stress and resulting pain out of her back so she could finish her important work. Now years later, I am blessed to still be able to serve Anna as she has been coming to see me ever since!

It’s being a part of helping people to feel whole, healthy and productive that makes me love being a massage therapist!

Massage Therapy for Pain Relief

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Massage therapy obviously provides pain relief for sore muscles.

But it’s is really meant as a whole-body approach, says AMTA vice president and licensed massage therapist M.K. Brennan, RN, LMBT.

“One of the things about massage is that it helps with pain relief is that it goes down to the heart of where people feel their pain,” Brennan tells WebMD. “There is the overall sense of well-being one can get from the massage approach. And the stress responses in the body associated with pain, such as elevated cortisol, are reduced through massage.”

For these reasons, massage therapy can be used to treat many different kinds of pain, says Tiffany Field, PhD, director of the Touch Research Institute at the University of Miami School of Medicine.

“Basically we have found massage to be effective in chronic pain syndromes in arthritis and diabetes; in depressive disorders such as ones that involve addiction like eating disorders; in chronic fatigue and fibromyalgia and other autoimmune disorders — HIV-associated diseases, too,” Field told WebMD in a June 29 interview. “We have looked at the A-to-Z of medical conditions, and we have not found a single condition massage therapy has not been effective for.”

Studies have shown Massage can trigger an endorphin release that raises your threshold for pain. Specific types of massage for pain management like Swedish and sports massage therapy can also help boost mood and relaxation by releasing oxytocin and serotonin.

If you have chronic conditions like arthritis, fibromyalgia or migraines, massage may be a helpful aid in managing pain. A study from the Touch Research Institute at the University of Miami showed that receiving massage on a regular basis lowers anxiety, reduces pain and improves grip strength for those with arthritis. If you battle with pain due to fibromyalgia, research has shown that receiving regular therapeutic massage reduces pain, anxiety and depression and encourages relaxation, which can help restore normal sleep patterns.

Some base findings about the value of massage therapy for pain relief have included the following:

According to Cherkin, Eisenberg, et. al. in the April 2001 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine,1 massage is effective for providing long-lasting relief for patients suffering from chronic low back pain.

Data collected nearly 10 years ago indicates that therapeutic massage promotes relaxation and alleviates the perception of pain and anxiety in hospitalized cancer patients.2 Recent studies have confirmed the findings and others indicate positive effects for massage in decreasing pain intensity among cancer patients.3

In 1990, Jensen et al. published data indicating that massage was better than cold pack treatment of post-traumatic headaches.4 The October 2002 issue of the American Journal of Public Health reports that new research by Quinn, Chandler and Moraska showed muscle-specific massage is effective for reducing the incidence of chronic tension headaches.5

A pilot study in 2000, conducted by Gregory P. Fontana, MD at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, found that massage reduces pain and muscle spasms in patients who have multiple incisions. When surveyed, 95 percent of patients felt that massage was a crucial part of their hospital experience, while need for medications dropped on days they received Massage therapy treatment.