Massage in Azalea Park

Spring of Life Health Spa's staff attends to sore muscles with bodywork services including stress-relieving Swedish, couples, and hot-stone massages. Owner Jeannie Wilmot specializes in reflexology, which focuses pressure on target points on the hands and feet to access and send healing energy through channels that run the length of the body. Along with massage therapy, the staff also relaxes clients with nailcare, facials, spontaneous harp playing, and spa packages.

Dr. Marc Ott has learned much about the human body in his years of treating sore muscles and spinal conditions, but one lesson stands out. “It's rare that what has made one patient better will be the same for the next,” he claims, and in keeping with this belief he and his staff strive to integrate traditional and alternative practices within their customized health-care plans.

More often than not, these plans involve some combination of chiropractic care and massage therapy. The former can relieve chronic pains with spinal adjustments, nutritional counseling, and holistic lifestyle advice, while the latter targets adhesions with Swedish, deep-tissue, and lymphatic-drainage techniques. These treatments—along with specialized procedures such as joint injections—can provide long-lasting relief from injuries sustained while playing sports or leveling parking meters with your monster truck.

A Healing Massage Room’s Leslie Heinricher goes where she is needed. Some days, she whisks to an injury clinic to assist car-accident victims; others, she appears at spas, robed in the aromatic mist of essential oils. Leslie wards off pain and suffering with therapeutic strokes honed at the Florida School of Massage. Her Swedish massages fight tension with gentle taps and circular motions that dislodge knots and boost blood flow. She custom-blends soothing techniques including neuromuscular therapy and myofascial release to ease pains associated with whiplash, sports injuries, carpal tunnel syndrome, and other ailments. Leslie also specializes in energy treatments such as reiki and polarity therapy, which clear blockages and toll booths interfering with the body’s energy pathways.

With more than 20 years of combined experience as a critical-care RN and a chiropractor, Doctor of Chiropractic Roslyn Thompson holds an intimate understanding of how to help the body to heal itself. Using a gentle approach, she sets clients at ease as she seeks out and corrects vertebral subluxations—or misalignments of vertebrae—that interfere with the nervous system's ability to function properly or finish its tell-all memoir. Dr. Thompson also aims to help her patients to deal with a range of conditions, from physical woes such as chronic pain, migraines, and arthritis to less apparent ailments such as memory loss, depression, and anxiety.

Massage therapist and certified aromatherapist Heather Byrd shares her passion for healing and more than six years of experience when relieving tension and relaxing bodies. Heather specializes in treatment of dysfunction in the neck and the lower back, incorporating facilitated stretches when appropriate and fake mustaches when inappropriate, just to lighten the mood.

She personalizes her massage sessions with a variety of massage techniques, including Swedish, deep-tissue, and myofascial-release, to address each client’s particular needs. During aromatherapy massages, Heather creates custom blends of up to five essential oils to treat specific ailments, such as lavender and chamomile for relaxation or peppermint and eucalyptus for pain relief.

Infinite Massage and Wellness tosses out the stress of the outside world and replaces it with six types of massages and a full menu of facial treatments. The therapists customize each massage to treat soreness or to help clients simply relax. Deep-tissue massages, for instance, help muscles recover with deliberate cross-grain strokes, whereas aromatherapy massages infiltrate olfactory passages with essential oils, easing clients into blissful states. Skin treatments, including Vi Peels and chemical peels, reduce age spots, clear acne, and smooth scars with a blend of salicylic acid, vitamin C, and minerals.