For months, I’ve been thinking about the comprehensive state of human beings in America. Client after client I see at my massage therapy practice deals with some unfortunate malady, from chronic depression to acute muscle spasms, and everything in between. Some have even confessed to living with neck muscles so tight that they’re often crossing …
by Muscle Memory Massage 
Back in our October 2021 blog post on the effects of sitting, we discussed many of the ways being sedentary can affect the body—with one of the most obvious and often excruciating consequences being intermittent or chronic pain in the lower back. Those with more active lifestyles, routines, and hobbies can find themselves struggling with …
by Muscle Memory Massage 
I perform bodywork on a wide range of clients at my practice, all of whom have incredibly different bodies, lifestyles, stress levels, diets, and medical histories. From daily desk workers and local foodies to competing body builders and religious runners, there is one question I ask just about every client I meet: “Do you stretch?” …
by Muscle Memory Massage 
In late 2013, during a French lesson on the snow-swept grounds of the University of Mary Washington, you could have found me sitting slouched at a desk along the back wall of an oblong classroom, holding ridiculous, makeshift ice packs of Ziplock bags, rubber bands, and paper towels to both sides of my jaw. It …
by Muscle Memory Massage 
Even if the basic science behind food can be boiled down somewhat simply, individual relationships with food—and furthermore, physique—unquestionably cannot be. “Calories in, Calories out,” they say. Eh, kind of. Math is math, and I won’t dispute factual numbers; that being said, what makes up those calories DOES matter. Even if human physiology obeyed the …
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Mainstream self-care is nice and can be quite helpful, but sometimes we need more practical, lasting approaches for dealing with day-to-day stress. Many of the relaxation tips that have been circulating online these past few years are also quite commercialized and therefore less focused on any true change or accelerated coping (e.g. buy a bath …
by Muscle Memory Massage 
The opioid crisis in America is a truly horrible and sorrowful thing. The reach and destruction of these drugs has soaked so far into our communities that it is altogether common for any one of us to have a degree of personal relation to the problem, irrespective of socio-economic status. As opposed to “street drugs,” …
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The practice of dry needling has been around for years now, but it seems to have taken on a new popularity as of late. I wouldn’t be hard-pressed to say that I have at least one client per week asking me about it! So, what is it really – and do you need it? First …
by Muscle Memory Massage 
When asked, “Do you want to live long and grow old?” most people say yes, but with the caveat of not wanting to be sick or otherwise infirm. No one is striving to be back in diapers, incapable of self-bathing, or mentally adrift, yet our choices often contribute more to these potential outcomes than what …
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