Effective Non-Surgical Treatments

As specialized massage therapists in Tampa using advanced deep tissue massage and cranial structural techniques to help people live a pain free life, we believe in the benefits of alternative therapy to cure common ailments that many see the doctor or take medication. For instance, sciatic pain relief.  Many people argue over the concept of complementary and alternative medicines when it comes to massage therapy. Massage has been used as an alternative to narcotics, steroid injections, and surgery, but it can also be used as alternative medicines to speed healing and reduce pain or even alleviate pain from hiatal hernias, bulging discs, herniated discs or other symptoms that may have led to surgery. Massage facilitates a body-mind-spirit balance, allowing the body to tap into its own recuperative and regenerative powers. For clients who are afraid of doctors, it provides a useful alternative, to help keep people healthy. For those who are actively under a physician’s care, massage helps minimize complications and provide the best possible outcome. Deep tissue massage is well established as useful for muscular-skeletal issues such as low back, tailbone pain and neck pain. The argument of complementary and alternative medicines, it is useful to apply the concept of prevention and rehabilitative to a massage therapy practice. The concept of prevention encompasses both alternative medicines and complementary schools of thought and allows for a broader application of massage therapy as part of a total wellness program.

Primary, secondary, and other alternative medicines and other prevention efforts each play a role in maintaining and restoring health. Massage therapy helps prevent a person from becoming sick or disabled due to injury or emotional stressors. Our clients who received regular weekly or bi-monthly SET bodywork or Emotional Release sessions fall in this category.

Many of our clients use us as secondary prevention or when a person already has something going wrong. Our techniques detect this state with the goal of reversing it. At Surgical Alternative, we use an intake questionnaire and postural assessment to help identify the problems.  Our SET bodywork  clients seek prevention and relief from, chronic overuse, job stress, and other factors that have  clearly impacted them, resulting in a “kinked neck”, tingling of fingertips, nerve entrapment, hiatal hernias, bulging discs, herniated discs, or a host of other issues that the client is suffering from. At Surgical Alternative, our SET Therapy, a integration of many alternative therapy techniques including deep tissue massage and cranial therapy (not cranial sacral but cranial structural therapy, see Deep Tissue Massage Techniques Article)  is more specific and with a particular goal in mind, getting you out of pain and returning you to a healthy life. Massage is sometimes referred to as “alternative” healthcare, because clients may choose deep tissue massages or other massage therapies for reversal of many conditions that many seek western medicine with doctors (i.e. surgery) and prescriptions to resolve.

Whether viewed as alternative medicines or complementary healthcare, massage therapy is a valuable form of preventive medicine. It can prevent disease and disability through primary prevention, arrest and reverse dis-ease when it presents itself as secondary prevention, and reduce complications related to disability when it does occur.

The therapists at Surgical Alternative are licensed specialized massage therapists in Tampa with over  24 years of specializing in Structural Energetic Therapy (a combination of many techniques including deep tissue massage and cranial/structural therapy), Emotional Release Therapy, Lymphatic Drainage Massage and much more.   We have produced some amazing results using therapy as complementary and alternative medicines. We have effectively provided relief for those suffering from a pinched sciatic nerve, tailbone pain, heel spurs, nerve entrapment, hiatal hernias, herniated discs, bulging discs and other ailments that cause acute and chronic pain.   Check out our testimonials and see for yourself!