Your First Massage Session in the Workplace
How Often Should I Get A Massage?
How Often Should I Get A Massage?
We share 3 indicators for you to use to estimate how often you should schedule your therapeutic massage session in the workplace. To quickly estimate your frequency schedule, using a scale from 1 - 5, we ask you to count the number of: Session Goals, Health Conditions, and Occupational Stressors.
Welcome to Elated Harmonies Massage
Hello Hello Again
Welcome into Elated Harmonies Massage where we provide therapeutic massage sessions and products that encourage individuals to Invest in Moments of Peace.
My name is Shanice-Shaila and in this video I want to share with you a little guidance on how often you should build therapeutic massage sessions into your workplace routine.
So by the end of this video, you will know 3 common frequency schedules professionals, like yourself, adopt to build therapeutic massage sessions into their health regimen.
Have Questions? We Want to Hear From You
As we have mentioned before, we created this series of videos to share as much insights regarding the questions you may have about therapeutic massage in the workplace.
We answer questions like:
- - What to Expect at your First Massage Session
- - What to Wear to your Session, and
- - How to Communicate your with your Therapist Before, During, and After Your Session.
You can watch all of these videos here in our playlist or at: www.elatedharmonies.com/in-studio-moments
So of course, we want to know what's on your mind. Tell us by commenting down below or speaking to us directly at: www.elatedharmonies.com/contact-us
Determining Your Massage Session Frequency Schedule
Alright well, lets get into it!
Now building massage into your workplace routine depends largely on your massage session goals, your individual current health, and your occupational stress levels.
So we will use these 3 categories as indicators and a range from 1 – 5 to determine your session frequency schedule. But remember this is just an estimate and you will want to confirm with the Massage Therapist what is recommended for you in particular after your first session in the follow-up.
Most Common Massage Session: Every Two Weeks
Ok, so our most common scheduling frequency is every 2 weeks.
We typically see individuals with 1 – 2 sessions goals, such as relief from lower back and shoulder tension. Relatively healthy but have some previous health conditions, 2 – 3, such as: rotator cuff injury years ago, may use medication to control blood pressure and occupational stress levels are at 3 or above, such as: a recent organizational change has brought upon an additional workload for you and tight deadlines on your previous work just add to the stress.
So for a session every 2 weeks that's about:
- - 2 for Session Goals
- - 2 for Health Conditions
- - 3 for Occupational Stress Levels
Again were using a range from 1 – 5.
Weekly or More Massage Sessions
So just as a reference if you scale higher in the range on any one of the indicators, like maybe you may have:
- - 3 or 4 health conditions such as: Arthritis, along with previous injury and medications
- - your session goals is at a 3
- - and your at a 4 or 5 on occupational stress levels --and that may be just because the 4 or 5 people you work with.
You will want to select a more frequent schedule such as weekly or twice a week. Considering the session duration remember you can always select 10, 15, or 30 minute sessions.
Selecting A Monthly Massage Schedule
And lastly you can also choose to build routine massage sessions into your health regimen by selecting a monthly schedule.
Now with a monthly schedule we typically see Guests who have a particular session goal in mind such as: slept wrong and I have this crick in my neck they are pretty healthy, may have a injury long before but on no medications and occupational stress is mild with the occasional micro-management incident from a team member here-and-there.
So that's a:
- - 1 for Session Goals
- - 1 for Health Conditions
- - 2 for Occupational Stress
With that a monthly frequency may be right for you.
Weekly, Bi-Weekly, or Monthly Massage Sessions
We typically see 3 common session frequencies:
- - Every 2 weeks
- - Weekly or more
- - and Once a month
and you can estimate this on a range of 1 – 5 regarding:
- - Session Goals
- - Health Conditions, and
- - Occupational Stress Levels
So there it is, a quick and brief way to estimate how often you should schedule a therapeutic massage session in the workplace. But of course you want to confirm this individually with your Massage Therapist after your session in the followup.
Again, my name is Shanice-Shaila with Elated Harmonies Massage encouraging you build routine massage sessions into your workplace and as always: Invest in Moments of Peace.
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