Thai Medicine Appointments
Each appointment includes a Thai medicine consultation, Thai medical bodywork treatment, and personalized daily habit or herbal medicine recommendations based on Thai medical theory. Thai Bodywork therapies may include spot specific work, Thai abdominal massage and visceral manipulation, Thai fire cupping or scraping, Thai acupressure point work or sen (channels of movement) work, compression, passive stretching, range of motion, traction and vibration, the use of hot or cool herbal compresses, liniments, balms, salves, poultices, plasters, and steams.
Chronic Pain
Sarah works with a variety of chronic pain conditions of the head, neck, face, abdomen, back and limbs of the body. This includes digestive disorders, reproductive disorders, autoimmune disorders, nervous system disorders and structural imbalances.
Prenatal Care
Thai medicine has specific exercise, diet and daily habit recommendations to keep the body vital and growing fetus healthy. Thai massage and bodywork can benefit symptoms that arise during the second and third trimester to soothe body pains, muscle cramps, restless leg, varicose veins, hemorrhoids, itchiness, structural changes and more. Individualized prenatal herbal compresses may be steamed and massaged into the body for physical benefit and emotional ease.
Thai bodywork is contraindicated during the first trimester unless for nausea.
Postpartum Care
Thai postpartum care can start from 5 days after delivery and span as long as 40 days. This is an outcall, in- home service. In Thai medicine, the first 40 days postpartum, called the Yu Fai period, emphasize warmth and rest to rebuild heat and essence lost during childbirth. This care helps prevent the onset of long-term illness and chronic disease that may arise postpartum.
These practices may involve Thai abdominal massage and womb care, hot clay pot massage, spot specific massage, oil massage, hot herbal compress breast massage, herbal steam sauna, herbal steam bath, vulva steam, vulva smoke, Thai belly binding, Thai self-care, food and herbal medicine recommendations.
Thai Infant Massage
For Infants & Children
Thai massage for infants and children is offered for ages one month to five years old. Traditionally, this is taught to expectant parents prenatally to do this simple technique on their children for self-care.
Thai massage has many benefits for the health and development of infants and children including its ability to stimulate the nervous system, support development of the mind, body and spirit, improve digestion, prevent constipation, reduce anxiety and stress, reduce coughs, hiccups and nausea by stimulating the respiratory system, stimulate growth of the muscular system, prevent malformation, and reduce bedwetting.