Massage Therapy

Massage Therapy:
Massage therapy is an essential addition to the services offered at Northwood Health Center. With many therapists on staff, we can provide the specific massage you need in a relaxing and comfortable environment.

When your injured tissues are in the process of repair, it is important to manage the circulation of oxygen and nutrients to the injury and toxic waste away. Your body does not always do this effectively on its own. Massage therapy uses controlled pressures, motions and directions to benefit injured muscles and ligaments safely and effectively and help them heal faster.

The relaxation properties of massage are also necessary by allowing your body to accept the changes placed upon it by the new demands your therapy provides. Tight and tender muscles tend to resist the corrections performed and prevent treatment progress. Massage therapy will help rebalance your muscular tension and assist in recalibrating your structural positions allowing for faster progress with better overall results.

 Michael Reid, L.M.T. #13970

Michael graduated with honors from AshMead College where he studied massage therapy, including Swedish massage, Deep Tissue and Therapeutic Massage.

Since graduating high school, he has worked in several lumbar mills where he witnessed many injuries caused by manual labor.  He felt that massage was one way he would be able to help the injured with their pain and recovery.

Michael has worked on people of many ages, from newborns to people in their nineties.  He has participated in many community events and health fairs around Woodburn and the north Willamette Valley.

Kelly Scott, L.M.T.

Chrysanne Scharer, L.M.T.