DermaEsthetica Skin and Body Clinic

Swedish Technique
Utilizing Swedish-style techniques, Lev exerts firm but gentle pressure to alleviate stress and promote relaxation. This massage is recommended for those who do not require deep-tissue bodywork. It is often combined with other types of massage therapy.

Deep Tissue Technique
This highly specialized technique focuses on muscular tension held in the deepest layers of the body. Concentrated pressure eases "knots," releases tension, and alleviates pain, giving a sense of unrestricted freedom and increased mobility in the joints. These benefits in turn lead to improved circulation.

Hot Stone Therapy
Soothing heat radiated by smooth volcanic stones relaxes strained muscles and allows the massage therapist to access deeper tissues. This popular form of massage therapy increases the relaxation response, reduces pain, and promotes healing through improved blood flow and circulation.

Head, Neck and Shoulder Release
Tension tends to migrate to certain muscles in the neck, back, and shoulders. Lev's tension-release techniques immediately eliminate accumulated tension at these points, preventing tension headaches and reducing anxiety.

Sports Massage
If you are engaged in sports or other activities that involve strenuous movement, condition your body with a cross-fiber massage. This deep-tissue massage promotes muscle health by stretching muscle groups and increasing blood flow. Lev is skilled in various forms of sports massage, which are widely used to reduce the risk of pulled muscles, prevent chronic muscle tightness and other imbalances, increase flexibility, and improve performance.

Myofascial Release
This gentle soft-tissue therapy involves light stretching and massage of the fascia, the continuous sheet of connective tissue that surrounds muscles, organs, bones, and blood vessels throughout the body. Physical injury, scarring, and inflammation can harden the fascia and cause muscle spasms, pain, and loss of movement. This therapy restores the muscles' fluidity, improving circulation, reducing inflammation, and increasing range of motion.

Craniosacral Therapy
Any restrictions in the flow of craniosacral fluid are believed to impact the health of the brain, spine, and nervous system. This technique helps restore the unimpeded flow of craniosacral fluid and balances energy fields. CST, which is different from massage, is often used to relieve emotional stress, neck and back pain, migraines, TMJ syndrome, and connective tissue disorders such as fibromyalgia. It is also effective in cases of chronic fatigue and immune system disorders.

Reflexology
This type of therapy is an increasingly popular form of healing art. Reflexology restores balance and encourages healing by stimulating reflexes at specific points on the feet, hands, and ears, which contain "maps" of the entire body. A multi-dimensional sensory experience, reflexology stimulates the nervous system, relieves tension, releases toxins, and improves circulation, facilitating the delivery of oxygen and nutrients to the cells.

Mineral Heat Therapy
Heat emitted by a therapeutic mineral heat lamp has several health benefits. It deeply penetrates the tissue and is believed to help regulate metabolism, improve circulation, ease the pain of arthritis, and promote repair of soft-tissue injuries. By stimulating microcirculation, mineral heat therapy promotes efficient delivery of high levels of oxygen and nutrients to injured cells, while aiding in the elimination of toxins and cellular waste.

Trigger Point Technique
Unexplained muscle pain may originate in the muscles or fascia and radiate to distant parts of the body. The painful point feels like a nodule or a tight muscle band, and when the massage therapist touches that point, the pain is distributed in a pattern. Trigger point therapy identifies referred pain patterns-such as sharp pain, dull ache, tingling, pins and needles, or the sensation of hot or cold -- and allows the therapist to associate pain in one location with trigger points elsewhere. Trigger points may be the source of symptoms such as nausea, earache, equilibrium disturbance, or blurred vision.

Energy Balance Massage
Disruption of the body's energy circuits can result in congestion or blockages that affect our health on many levels. This massage helps release blocked and distorted energy patterns and restore the continuous flow of energy throughout the body.

Stretching
Tight muscles can lead to recurring injuries, pain, and poor posture. Proper stretching enhances the elongation of muscles and improves strength, endurance, posture, range of motion, and balance. Stretching techniques combined with massage are effective in relieving pain caused by muscular tightness.

Acupressure Technique
Acupressure is an ancient Oriental healing art that stimulates the body's self-healing processes. Using the fingers, knuckles, and palm, pressure is applied to external points of the body that correspond to specific organs. Acupressure is beneficial in treating muscle aches, headaches, eye strain, sinus conditions, neck and back pain, arthritis and ulcer pain, menstrual cramps, and digestive problems.

Sound Therapy
Sound therapy is based on the theory that all living things vibrate, and that correct vibrational frequencies can restore an individual's healthy resonant balance. The therapist intuitively selects from a wide range of rhythms, frequencies, acoustic and electronic instruments, songs, chants, and sound-producing objects such as crystal bowls and tuning forks, to alter states of consciousness and promote healing. This therapy alleviates stress, insomnia, anxiety, high blood pressure, and muscle tension, among other conditions. Music therapy, which involves listening to music, is also a part of sound therapy.

Guided Visualization
Guided visualization is the use of mental images to access the unconscious, where the root of all healing lies, while remaining in touch with cognitive processes. During this experience you will enter a tranquil state in which you can let down your defenses and empower yourself to work toward desired changes, reinforce positive behavior, build confidence, or combat stress and disease. Guided imagery strengthens your resistance to any type of stress and enables you to access physical, mental, and emotional areas simultaneously. This technique often achieves long-lasting results.

Hypnotherapy Technique
This technique promotes a higher level of relaxation without loss of conscious awareness. Hypnotherapy has proved to be effective in modifying a wide range of habits, behavior, and attitudes. Some individuals are empowered to stop smoking or lose weight; others benefit from the calming effect of this therapy before undergoing surgery or dentistry. Ask Lev about the many conditions that respond to hypnotherapy.