Alia Ridley, Massage Therapist, North Vancouver, BC

Position: Registered Massage Therapist I have always believed that having a healthy mind, body and spirit is the best way to achieve optimal health and performance. These interconnected aspects of what makes us a complete healthy person however are often challenged by the everyday stressors we can experience in life. I have found massage therapy to be an extremely beneficial modality to help navigate and even help alleviate these stressors by allowing us to reconnect to our bodies. Growing up I was introduced to various types of therapeutic modalities from Chiropractic, Applied Kinesiology, Naturopathic Medicine, Homeopathy, Acupuncture and the value of physical exercise in my life. My early experiences helped me in developing a sense of how a “whole body” holistic approach improves and enhances my being both mentally and physically. After spending a year at Quest University in Squamish, British Columbia pursuing a liberal arts and sciences degree my interest in the healing arts called out to me. With this in mind, I decided to attend the Vancouver College of Massage Therapy and completed it’s rigorous 3000 hour program in April 2016. I wrote my provincial board examinations in September 2016 for my Registered License and passed on my first attempt. I was drawn to massage therapy in particular because I truly believe that it is a wonderful way to reconnect yourself to your body, decrease stress, and help aid in the recovery of other physical ailments. In addition, I have always had a passion for helping others and massage therapy has become a great outlet to help fulfill this passion. My treatment style includes many different techniques such as myofascial release, neuromuscular therapy, craniosacral therapy, trigger point therapy, gentle joint mobilizations, stretching, and more depending on each patient’s specific needs and how their body is presenting. My pace is usually slow and rhythmic as I use Swedish Massage techniques to help induce relaxation and support patient’s into the parasympathetic nervous system. This allows patients to fully rest and unwind while also keeping the massage effective. I sincerely hope to be of service and support you through your health and wellness journey!

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Registered massage therapists help with whiplash is an injury that you experience, that most people experience, from car accidents. You can also have it from a sports injury.The technical term for whiplash in the medical literature is whiplash associated disorders, or WAD, and that’s what we’re going to refer to it as today. WAD happens when your head is thrown about, usually forward and sometimes backwards and side to side and treatment from a local RMT Registered Massage Therapist .

It can be any other direction but that’s the general idea. And it’s an acceleration, deacceleration injury when the neck structures have to respond to that force that comes into you.The types of symptoms that you might expect after a car accident and a whiplash injury would be anywhere from moderate to no symptoms at all. And the moderate symptoms generally consist of stiffness in the neck, some mild achiness, maybe some mild headache, and you might feel that you’re more sensitive to cold than you normally are.

The more severe symptoms that people might feel are ringing in the ears, dizziness, loss of memory and pain coming down their arms. With whiplash injuries, there are many factors that go into deciding how much pain you’re going to be in.The force of the impact is one, and in some cases – not all cases – people have what they call low velocity injuries, where it’s a slow-moving, low-impact, but the patient experiences a lot of pain afterwards.

And a lot of patients have really bad injuries and have no pain afterwards, and so what’s the difference? The difference is the intangible factors that come into deciding how much pain you have. One of them – or a couple of them – are social factors and often seeing a local RMT Registered Massage Therapist .

So, how your social life, your home life, your work life is going. If you’re experiencing any anxiety and depression at the time. Also, general health will affect how much pain you experience, so the better your health the less impact it’s going to have, the worse your health you’re going to experience more pain.Women also tend to experience more pain after car accidents and whiplash injuries, and it’s generally thought it’s the ligament laxity or the joints are a little bit looser in women, they tend to be more flexible, so when impact comes they move more and tend to be injured more during car accidents.If you have any further questions about whiplash injuries, you can go see your local rehabilitation therapist. Those therapists are either your massage therapist, your physiotherapist or your chiropractor.