Joseph S
By the time most people book a massage, they have already tried to stretch it out, sleep it off and work around it. Joseph S starts there, with what your body has actually been doing, rather than with a routine picked off a menu. He is a licensed massage therapist whose focus is customized massage therapy, which means the pressure, the pace and the places he spends time are set by what he finds in the tissue and by what you tell him you need to get back to. His background is unusually broad for bodywork: hospitals, health clubs, therapeutic clinics and physical therapy centers. He has met people at very different points on the same road, from the person a few days out of a hospital bed, to the athlete who has carried the same tight hip through a whole season, to the person midway through a course of physical therapy whose soft tissue has to let go before the rest of the plan can do its job. Massage for recovery and massage for a long held guarding pattern are different jobs, and he treats them that way.
The team is great. We work together to give our clients a plan of care that ensures a healthy outcome.
What guides the work.
Customized means asked for, not assumed. Joseph checks in before he starts and again while he works, because the pressure one person calls relief is the pressure the next person braces against, and a body that is bracing is not a body that is releasing. You will know what he is working on and why, and you can change it partway through. The second thing that shapes his work is that the hour is part of a plan of care, not a standalone treat. Wellness Solutions is a physical therapy, Pilates and massage practice under one roof, so what he finds in a shoulder can inform what the licensed physical therapists on your plan do next, and what they are working toward shapes where he spends his time. Joseph is a massage therapist, not a physical therapist, and he is clear about that line. Being clear about it is exactly what lets the disciplines work together instead of past each other.