Massage in Davidson

April Ann Arigoni is an experienced muscle manipulator who supplies the magical hands behind Massage By AAA. April expertly coaxes stress from the backs and shoulders of professional athletes (she once worked for the WNBA's Charlotte Sting and ECHL's Charlotte Checkers) and amateur achers. The deep-tissue hot-stone massage is a hybrid technique, combining the strategic pressure and kneads of Swedish and deep-tissue therapies with the warmth and relaxing effects of heated stones. The application of hot stones to the back during massage causes tight muscles to relax, while the connective strokes of more traditional massage techniques help expel toxins and lactic acid from the body. If you opt for a 90-minute combination massage, you will be treated to a comforting stew of Swedish, deep-tissue, sports, movement therapy, and acupressure techniques, with the exact combination of treatments customized to suit your individual needs.

After discussing your back's particular bothers with a friendly therapist, you'll lie peacefully on a bed of clean sheets heated by a warming blanket. One of Selah's therapists signs a war treaty with tight muscles, deploys troops of Swedish strokes, and drops bombs of pressure to leave bodily tissues content. Believing it important to pause life for a moment of healing meditation, Selah focuses on helping customers relax, reduce stress, and improve posture and circulation with its Swedish massages.

In the olden days, nomads and royalty alike made pilgrimages to the lowest point on earth: the Dead Sea. The vitamin-rich waters, which are roughly six times saltier than the ocean, had a therapeutic effect on bathers, dissolving stress, boosting metabolism, and brightening skin tones. Nowadays, the same benefits can be had without a trip to Jerusalem, thanks to L’Ultime Day Spa’s mud wraps, which tighten skin and detoxify systems with the sea’s salt and mud. A team of massage therapists can also relax muscles with kneads customized to each client, in styles that range from Swedish and deep tissue to reflexology, which focuses exclusively on the hands and feet. They can even ply the physique with reiki, energy work that stimulates the body’s self-healing powers without also activating its self-cloning powers.

After years of working at a high-pressure job, which often left her physically and emotionally drained, Fawn Cook knew she needed to get out. She wanted to keep her stress levels under control and help others do the same, so she decided to leave the corporate world to pursue massage therapy—a decision that eventually led her to open Serendipity Massage in 2010. Alongside her team of massage therapists, Fawn works to rejuvenate her clients through custom massages, reflexology, and detoxifying body treatments that employ mud, algae, and promises of treats to draw out impurities. The menu of add-ons enhances the already-decadent treatments with aromatherapy, a scalp and neck massage, or citrus body polish.

After being laid off from his engineering job, Nelson Berry decided to open Stonehaven Massage & Spa. Now, more than two years later, Berry presides over a Stonehaven location that is as luxurious to lounge in as a private jet parked in a giant jacuzzi. In the stonework lobby, flowers cluster around mirrors and pitchers of lemon water. Murals of waterfalls and oceans signal the themes of each treatment room, where clients can relax during massage modalities ranging from traditional Swedish to deep tissue massage. From there, aestheticians can take over with facials or waxing services.

The practitioners at Artists in Motion Massage Therapy see massage as more than a means of relaxation—they see it as a physical medicine that can help people heal and overcome chronic pain. Using Swedish massage as their baseline approach, they customize treatments by drawing upon tools from hot bamboo to infrared-sauna therapy, which eases conditions such as arthritis, adhesions, and being encased in ice by heating the body internally. For clients who would benefit from more in-depth structural alignment, therapists can refer them to Artists in Motion's resident neuromuscular chiropractic physician. Through this meticulous attention to each patient's ailments, therapists uphold the standards of Associated Bodywork & Massage Professionals.