by Katrina Jenkins | Mar 2, 2026 | blogs
Improve Your Posture, Improve Your Life: How Exercises, Stretches, and Our Four-Step Massage Protocol Work Together Slouching. Pretty much all of us do it, even those of us who are mindful of their posture. Modern life, unfortunately, sets us up for this. No matter...
by Katrina Jenkins | Feb 16, 2026 | blogs
The Venous Pump That Is Your Soleus Did you know that the soleus, a powerful muscle closely related to the gastrocnemius, is sometimes referred to as the “second heart”? This is because it functions as a venous pump in the lower legs. It has rhythmic contractions...
by Katrina Jenkins | Feb 2, 2026 | blogs
The Process of Fibrosis and How to Prevent Stiffness Scar tissue, the thick fibrous scarring that forms following surgery on an injury, is found on the surface of the skin. Fibrosis, similar to scar tissue but not an interchangeable term, is a buildup of scar-like...
by Katrina Jenkins | Jan 19, 2026 | blogs
How Strength Training Builds Stronger Bones – and How Massage Therapy Helps You Maintain the Results Your muscles aren’t the only ones getting stronger when you lift weights—your bones are, too. Strength training sends powerful signals to your skeletal system,...
by Katrina Jenkins | Jan 5, 2026 | blogs
Understanding Sarcopenia and How to Manage It There’s no stopping the aging process, and with it comes noticeable changes in energy, strength, and how our bodies just feel in general. These aspects of aging can be attributed to sarcopenia, which is frailty caused by...
by Katrina Jenkins | Dec 22, 2025 | blogs
The More Muscle We Have, the Longer We Live Today, let’s talk about the importance of the weight and size of your skeletal muscles – more commonly known as muscle mass. The correlation between having more of it and the likelihood of a longer, healthier life has been...
