Back Straight Massage

Prevention is better than cure.
Elite athletes know this which is why they always have a massage therapist in their team to help prepare and recover.

Back Straight Massage has the range of services under one roof to help you maintain healthy body and mind, and get the most out of your 24 hours.

With appointments available after hours, 7 days, and all therapists highly qualified and working as a team, you get the results you need when you need it.

Back Straight Massage will increase your productivity throughout life at home, work and play.

We are not a day spa, and we don’t rearrange your cosmic aura! ! WE MASSAGE. Remedial, sport, relaxation and lymphoedema massage. Clients get results. Health fund rebates available

We have 5 therapists, over 1000 clients, and providing over 3000 massages a year.

Ailments Back Straight Massage often deals with include;
• Lower back strain – typically people doing manual lifting, operating machinery, parents lifting children
• Sports injuries – massage helps clear muscles of lactic and uric acid that build up during exercise and relaxes muscle hyper tonicity as well as relieves muscle tension. We successfully treat clients with frozen shoulder, tennis elbow, rotator cuff injuries, tight itb’s, sciatica, hip, leg and feet issues
• Neck and shoulder tension – caused by stress, repetitive routines, bad posture, incorrect lifting, illness, driving a lot, sleeping incorrectly
• Headaches – often accompanies upper body tension. We can also assist people suffering sinus or allergies

Diet and exercise are an important part of our lives, and massage enables our bodies to recover from and deal with better, the rigours of sport, exercise and other areas of life.

When muscles become knotted and tense or damaged, remedial massage provides a healing treatment that can be gentle or strong, deep or shallow. As remedial massage therapists we identify the original biomechanical dysfunction, thus healing the cause of the disorder, as well as the symptoms. There are several specialised techniques used to locate and repair damage to muscles, tendons, ligaments, skin, or other connective tissue.

Most of our clients are on a regular massage program – usually once per month – which helps prevent a lot of issues before they become uncomfortable or restricting.

Susan Butcher – proprietor of Back Straight Massage - is qualified in Lymphoedema Massage Therapy. Lymphoedema is caused from a failure of the lymphatic system to adequately collect and remove proteins from the fluids of body tissues, resulting in long term swelling and oedema. Whereas it can be genetic, it can also be a result of trauma / injury, cancer, surgery, radiation therapy, chemotherapy, arthritic inflammation, deep vein thrombosis or a reaction to pharmaceutical substances. Lymphatic massage is a longer, gentler form of massage, which assists the body to increase the lymphatic flow of the excess proteins back to the blood circulation, where they are processed by the kidney and liver then removed by normal bodily function.