SPECIALTY MASSAGE AND BODYWORK

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Highly Specialized Hands-On Care

We believe that hands-on care is a pillar of wellness—and an essential nutrient.

You’ll receive professional, evidence-based, effective, and holistic hands-on care performed only by licensed professional healthcare professionals.


Our doctors of Physical Therapy, Acupuncturists, and Occupational Therapists all have training in methods to boost your healing process or maintain your wellness.

THE VITAM DIFFERENCE

Clients often tell us that coming for a bodywork session is the most relaxing part of their day & an essential pice of their well-being

Our integrative approach includes:
  • Bringing in modalities like lifestyle modification, sleep medicine, stress reduction, or movement prescription to maintain gains made with bodywork and massage.
  • Consulting with experts who specialize in shifting what is causing discomfort, tension, or pain.
  • Working alongside a physician for help with tests or prescriptions.
  • Recognizing signs that may call for bloodwork or imaging.
  • Working with your current healthcare plan, prescription medicines, and doctors.
  • Recommending other services that may help you make permanent shifts in your health or healing process.
  • Being your doctors for life. As your needs change, so can our treatments and services!

We promise:
  • Your session will be relaxing and rejuvenating.
  • To combine your words & intuition with our hands, eyes, experience, intuition, and education—to guide your unique 1:1 session.

TYPES OF BODYWORK & MASSAGE

A gentle soft tissue mobilization approach to assist release of restrictions throughout the connective tissue (fascia) of the body. It works with the health of the fluid that bathes the brain and spinal cord. It aims to release physical and emotional holding patterns that affect healing and health.

Craniosacral therapy is helpful for reducing pain, increasing nervous system relaxation, improving digestion, improving mental clarity and feeling more content and free. It’s an excellent treatment for complex or elusive conditions and head injuries.

A specialized form of massage performed by our Occupational or Physical Therapist working specifically with the lymphatic system. It reduces swelling and is especially powerful for decreasing pain and increasing mobility if you have swelling.

An Ayurvedic medicine modality designed to assist with balancing and restoring the doshas (or energies at work within the body). It assists with deeply calming the nerves and enhancing functions of bodily organs and tissues. It’s helpful for overall wellness, pain, swelling, tension, detoxification, digestion, and healing from surgeries.

An Ayurvedic treatment to enhance deep calm and clarity and to fortify your senses. It involves starting with a warm, herb-infused oil foot massage followed by a stream of warm oil slowly poured over your third eye, forehead and top of head for 20 to 30 minutes. It assists with regulating the nervous system to relieve stress, anxiety, and depression. It reduces insomnia and fatigue, and balances mood and emotions.

A specialized form of Physical Therapy that works with the mobility and freedom of the organs. It can be an especially powerful boost for the body’s detoxification process and reduce feelings of fatigue. It can also help with fertility, digestive issues, or post-surgical gut function.

This specialized hands-on technique improves elasticity in the body. It’s especially helpful to promote scar tissue healing, remediate sports injuries and overuse injuries, relieve chronic tightness and pain, and free up circulation for the health of all your systems.

This technique is used to create space in the joints.It is especially helpful for pain, impingement, spine pain, and arthritis.

This technique is used to create a vacuum suction on the skin surface. This suction puts tension on the myofascial networks of the body, bringing blood and energy (known as Qi in Chinese medicine) to the surface.It’s especially helpful for pain, chronic pain, and digestive issues.

This method frees up the flow of energy through the skeletal tissue as we move and absorb force. It’s especially helpful for pain, injury healing, and freeing up the deep knowing of your body’s wisdom.

These are used in acupuncture as a gentle way of moving Qi and working with the deeper channel networks of your body. It’s helpful to encourage a deep nervous system relaxation and tp support imbalances—by warming, cooling, dispersing, or tonifying energy.

Reiki (meaning universal life force energy) is an energetic healing modality for mind, body and spirit where the practitioner’s hands are directly applied to you or around you. It’s often used in healing complex or elusive conditions and for deep relaxation. It can be wonderful wellness maintenance for people who work in an environment or are in relationships that have a taxing or negative effect on their energy.

Massage is the cornerstone of self-care and wellness. It uses hands-on care to release muscle tension and improve circulation. It feels good, is good for the soul, and is incredibly nurturing.

 

Our Specialty Areas:

  • Headaches
    Migraine
    Neck pain
    Whiplash
    Concussion
    Stress/tension
    Lack of energy
  • Injury prevention
    Joint pain
    Sciatica
    Fasciitis
    Running injuries
    Overuse injuries
    Autoimmune processes
  • Sleep
    Surgery-pre and post
    Arthritis
    Neuropathy
    Post-COVID syndrome
    Complex conditions
  • R&R, Wellness, TLC
    & to simply just feel good!
Vitam Client .

I’m really selective about who I allow to touch and care for my body. Finding Vitam was a Godsend. I can get amazing bodywork from doctors who truly know what they’re doing. Their intelligence and professionalism is something you cannot find anywhere else.

Vitam Client .

Craniosacral Therapy at Vitam was transformative. I felt like there was a part of me that had been entangled and trapped. My life and outlook changed in one hour. Things were so much brighter.

Vitam Client .

My life is high-stress and high demand. Regular treatments at Vitam are what keep my energy and health in check. The deep restoration that can happen in 1 hour is profound.

    We look forward to treating you.

    MEET YOUR PROVIDERS/ PRACTITIONERS

    DR. KATHLEEN BERG

    Integrative Consultant

    Doctor of Physical Therapy

    Orthopedic Clinical Specialist

    Yoga Practitioner

    DR. ALLYSON PEARSON

    Doctor of Physical Therapy

    Certified Cycling Coach

    DESIREE MOORES

    Occupational Therapist

    Ayurvedic Clinician

    Craniosacral Therapist

    Massage Therapist

    Advanced Yoga Practitioner

    DR. JACKIE SCHREMPP BAUMANN

    Acupuncturist

    Naturopathic Medical Doctor

    Qigong Instructor

    QUESTIONS?

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    Phone: 209-830-1668
    E-mail: [email protected]

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