Wood therapy in Laval

The pressure is deliberately firm, but it should not be a pain you have to endure. It is felt more on some areas, typically the backs of the thighs and the inner arms. Say so straight away if an area becomes too sensitive: the pressure is adjusted during the session, without you having to wait until the end. Most clients describe the treatment as relaxing despite how firm the work is.

Small bruises can happen with a firm massage, especially if you mark easily. They are neither necessary nor the aim. Tell us if you take a blood thinner or if you bruise easily, so we can adapt the pressure. A large, very painful or unusual mark is worth reporting, and mention the date if your legs need to be on show soon.

There is no universal number of sessions. Where the goal is cosmetic, the effects of mechanical massage are generally temporary and call for regularity to be maintained. We set the rhythm from the area, from how you respond and from what you are after, rather than promising a package identical for everyone. Some people feel their legs lighter from the session itself. How long that feeling lasts varies, and it does not point to a lasting change in circulation.

The main difference is the technique. Wood therapy uses wooden tools and generally firmer pressure, to work mechanically on the surface and subcutaneous tissue. A regular massage uses mainly the hands and aims more at relaxation or muscular tension, depending on the therapist's technique. And wood therapy is not the equivalent of manual lymphatic drainage. If your need is muscular, a tight neck, a tense back, massage therapy is what is indicated, and it comes with an insurance receipt, which is not the case here since this is an esthetic treatment.

In early pregnancy, we hold off, and that rule applies to most of the institute's body treatments. Later, it is discussed case by case and never on the abdomen. Plenty of pregnant women are looking for relief for heavy legs, which is a real need: the decision is then made in consultation, with your doctor's or your midwife's agreement, not by booking online. If the answer is no here, it is not necessarily no for manual lymphatic drainage, which works with far lighter pressure.

The principle exists and is practised elsewhere, with much smaller tools. At L'Institut Béa, wood therapy is a body treatment, and that choice is deliberate: the face calls for a different approach and different training. For facial drainage, which is what many people are really after when they ask this, Isabelle's manual lymphatic drainage is what answers the need. If your question is about firmness or the jawline, the wrinkles and sagging page explains what belongs to the skin and what belongs to volume.

It is the most useful of the three questions, and it is settled on what bothers you. If it is mostly the dimpling, wood therapy: a firm massage with wooden tools, with a possible temporary cosmetic result. If it is mostly heavy legs and swelling, pressotherapy: sequential compression, 45 minutes, $45. If you are specifically after a manual drainage, lymphatic drainage: far lighter pressure, done by Isabelle, a massage therapist, with an insurance receipt.

Wood therapy and pressotherapy can be part of the same plan, but they do not answer exactly the same need: the first is aimed mostly at the massage of the tissue and the look of the dimpling, the second at the feeling of heavy legs and at swelling. Slimwave deals with the muscle underneath. Combining them is not automatically necessary, and the spacing matters: two firm treatments on the same area on the same day usually make for an uncomfortable next day without a better result.