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Medical Massage is a concept. It is not a specific method or just another technique. In a medical massage session, we will apply an individualized set of manual techniques to address a particular medical condition.

Medical Massage is outcome-oriented. That means for each treatment session, we have a goal and a plan, the results or outcomes of treatment are measurable.

BAST is the acronym for Balance and Alignment of Body Structure and Tissues.

BAST Medical Massage uses advanced assessments to locate the abnormalities inside your body. Abnormalities include restrictions, adhesions, distortions, imbalances, malalignments … etc. 

We then apply a highly specialized set of manual techniques to induce precise stimulations to those abnormalities

By favorably responding to BAST stimulations, your body then returns to a more balanced and aligned condition with better circulation, better posture and better functions. As a result, pain and discomfort will subside NATURALLY.

We understand that the human body responds to injuries, stressors or pain by adaptation and compensation. 

If they are not treated appropriately, injuries and pain develop and change over time, they progress to affect other areas of the body as well. This is the reason why the area of pain doesn’t necessarily be the origin of the problems. This phenomenon makes pain treatments difficult and tricky.

BAST treatment normally won’t start from the pain area. Before and during the treatment, precise palpation and observation provide us with valuable and important insights. We then have an idea of where the root cause of the problems is, how the body compensates and how it progresses to affect other areas of the body. 

You will be surprised that we can “feel your pain” and we know the exact locations of the problem areas even you might not have noticed or imagined before. 

By continuously picking up the responses from your body, we gather lots of related information, which includes:

• the level of severity,
• the way your body is being affected
• how widespread the problems are,
• how long has the injury been existed
• any postural malalignments or overuses,
• how your body responds to treatment
• hydration level … etc.

Based on all these details, we then formulate a corresponding treatment strategy and come up with a plan for each individual situation.

BAST Medical Massage has unique advantages on how to tackle these problems by working very closely with the responses of your body. During the treatment, we change the strategy and finger pressures precisely and dynamically, your body responds to the stimuli as intended and starts to rebalance and realign itself. 

The whole process has been subtle, purposeful and very powerful. The results are Beyond All Expectations.

BAST treatments are Unique, Effective, Predictable and Repeatable. Eighteen years of experience and thousands of successful pain relief cases couldn’t go wrong.  

Let’s use “Bunion” as an example to illustrate this :-

Bunions are incredibly painful conditions. They are commonly seen among women who wear high-heel shoes and shoes with pointy toes and tight toe-boxes. Bunions form slowly over time, usually over years.

Wearing improper shoes creates imbalances in the feet and lower legs. Some of the muscles are getting tight and shortened while others are getting lengthened. Your body compensates by over-using other muscles and you keep walking in an unnatural way. Your gait changes slowly and unnoticeably.

The conditions around the big toes and the legs change and progress:

1. In the very beginning, you won’t feel any discomfort or pain.
2. A few years later, there are thickened skins around the outside edge and the bottom of the big toe. Calluses and corns are formed
3. Gradually, you feel tenderness and burning sensation around the big toe and on the shins of the lower legs.
4. Pain can be felt in the toes and feet.
5. You have trouble walking; the big toe turned towards the second toe (malalignment).
6. The bony protrusion at the base of the big toe is significant, it turns red and inflamed.
7. The conditions get more and more complicated, you might eventually have other diagnoses such as rheumatoid arthritis, bursitis, metatarsalgia, hammertoes …

This is an over-simplified description of a series of progressions. The kinetic chain of events all started by wearing high-heels and tight toe-boxes. 

Even though you might have stopped wearing high-heels for years, the imbalances and malalignments are still there limiting the blood circulation and functions of your toes, ankles, lower legs and possibly all the way up the back, shoulders and head. 

Obviously, the Root Cause is the imbalances and malalignments of body structures and tissues.

Our ultimate goal is to eliminate those imbalances and malalignments so that your body can return to its natural balance and alignment with restored circulations, functions and flexibility.

Recently, BAST treated a lady wearing more than 20 years of high-heels. Her left big toe almost crossed over to the second toe, it was reddened and inflamed. She was having excruciating pain and taking medications for arthritis. 

After 3 sessions of BAST treatments, the redness and inflammation disappeared and she no longer felt the pain in her big toe. 

Unbelievable, isn’t it? The real differences are, we identify the true nature of the problems and use some combination of techniques that can deliver efficient and meaningful changes both physiologically and pathologically.

This example illustrates the importance of the “Balance” and “Alignment” concept. It holds true to numerous different pain and health conditions in other parts of the body as well. 

Once the imbalances and malalignments  are corrected, your pain management goals can be successfully realized.

Truth and Evidence are there, we LET RESULTS SPEAK FOR THEMSELVES.

Imbalances and malalignments develop and progress over years, they do not cause pain in one day. So in most cases, treatments should not stop immediately when pain subsides. 

At this point, BAST treatments have brought the injury back below the pain threshold.  The imbalances and malalignments are still not totally been resolved, whether they are locally or far in the originally injured areas. If you stop getting treatments at this point, pain will very likely recur.

Achieving pain relief is only one of the many results and benefits of BAST treatments.

During the earlier treatments, we have pretty much a whole picture of the severity and progressions of your injury, additional sessions are usually suggested to help eliminate possible residue abnormalities, which allows your body back to a natural balance.

This is exactly the way to deliver long-lasting pain relief results. With a naturally balanced body, the pain-causing factors have gone. You don’t need to come back forever for pain treatments.

A naturally balanced body is also accompanied by Flexibility. In other words, you will get flexibility and long-lasting pain relief results hand-in-hand at the same time. 

By working out the imbalances and malalignments, your body can move effortlessly in full range of motions, you will be able to finish your daily routines painlessly and easily with plenty of energy and strength.

Flexibility is the ultimate goal of BAST treatments. We are not pursuing extreme flexibility, but at the very minimum, we can set an achievable goal that would allow you to get back to your activities painlessly. 

At regular time intervals, we would like you to do 2 special movements before or after a treatment session. These 2 movements are great simple ways to gauge your flexibility, mobility and body balance. By recording your movements, both of us then have a benchmark of knowing where the problems are and how well you’ve been improving.

There are numerous health benefits when your body regains Flexibility and Mobility, which includes:

• Fewer injuries
• Improve posture and balance
• Revitalize your energy with greater strength
• A positive state of mind
• Improved sleep quality
• Rejuvenate skin tones and textures
• Better quality of life …

Flexibility is achievable using BAST treatment techniques.

Every movement professional knows that “Balance” and “Alignment” are the important keywords in flexibility, mobility, strength, endurance and basically all kinds of physical activities. 

Again, BAST treatments have unique advantages of balancing and aligning your body which in turn, restore its “Flexibility” !!!

Massage for medical purposes has been one of the oldest medical procedures in history. It has had very safe track records.

Today, massage therapy is a well-accepted non-pharmacological therapy for managing pain. It is recognized by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and included in nonpharmacological pain guidelines issued by The Joint Commission.

For most of the time, BAST Medical Massage uses gentle finger pressures, so it is very safe and does not cause any side effects. 

In the last 18 years, we have had clients aged between 2 to 84 years old. We haven’t seen any significant side effects except less than a handful of mild bruises and they recovered quickly by themselves within a few days.

For most of the time, BAST treatment uses gentle and well-controlled finger pressures. We pick up feedback information from your body at all times during the treatment. The pressures and treatment strategy will be changed spontaneously to avoid excessive discomfort. 

We understand that excessive discomfort and pain will tighten up your body, which will offset the benefits of the treatment.

BAST treatment is not painful. It may only take half of your first session until you get familiarized with the treatment, then you will love that discomfort (or Sweet Pain), because you know and expect that special “Sweet Pain” will bring relief and relaxation. 

Sweet Pain and Deep Relaxation together characterizes that the treatment session is successful and enjoyable.