Remedial Massage is a physical technique: it involves massaging and moving your body to encourage the healing process.  You should be comfortable at all times, with regard to feeling warm enough - you do get cold lying still, and with regard to feeling comfortable with the fact that you are exposed, if only a little at a time to enable the massuse to work. Areas not being worked on should be covered with big towels and that the room needs to be warm. Please tell the practitioner if you do not feel completely at ease, the therapist gets warm while they are working and are used to the situation. They need your feedback to ensure that  you are able to relax and benefit fully from the work that being done. 

Remedial works by removing blockages to blood flow: damaged cells, scar tissue, adhesions, swelling. It is not a relaxing massage. It is injury treatment; using massage techniques as well as mobilisation, stretches, Soft Tissue Release and muscle release. The most common technique I use is friction, for dealing with areas of scar tissue and adhesions. Using fingers, knuckles or elbows they work around an area that is not fully functioning. This is often uncomfortable and sometimes painful. If the area was injured sometime previously it is necessary to force layers of tissue apart that have grown together incorrectly. Massage during healing prevents this and makes it much less painful to treat. 

Why is Remedial Massage Unique?

Remedial Massage is unique: it is the only technique that I have come across that removes the damaged cells left by injury, thus enabling the blood to flow into areas that have been low in oxygen and nutrients. This is what encourages substantial and speedy healing. Unless these damaged cells are removed recovery can only ever be partial, and repeat injuries can be expected.