Marie Arcand, Massage Therapist, Vancouver, BC

Marie Arcand, BFA, RMT, CIMT At the heart of Marie’s massage therapy practice is her comprehension and appreciation for the human body’s ability to rejuvenate and heal. Creating a supportive space and tailoring each treatment session to encourage these processes are her goals. Through listening, assessment and evaluation of their particular conditions, Marie develops a treatment plan for each client. Her treatment sessions include a combination of manual techniques : muscle energy technique, swedish massage, myofascial release, passive stretching, joint mobilization, neuromuscular technique; continuous re-evaluation through palpation, passive range of motion, landmarking and muscle length test; techniques that encourage the reduction of stress (emotional, physical) and relaxation of the nervous system; complementary home-care advise, postural education, stretch/strengthen exercises and hydrotherapy. Marie’s education, experience and commitment constitute the base of her work to which she adds her friendly demeanour and compassionate care. She welcomes clients of all ages; her life is rich of her experiences as a mother, teacher, visual artist, organic gardener, yoga practitioner and outdoors seeker with a constant curiosity for natural healing, healthy lifestyle and body-mind-spirit balance. As well as a general practice in a multidisciplinary clinic, Marie has developed special interests : • treating women before, during and after pregnancy • providing massage therapy and labour support during birth • teaching infant massage classes to parents and their new babies • treatment of TMJ, neck pain, headaches; back 1999 • Graduation at Okanagan Valley College of Massage Therapy (3000 hrs) 1999-present • Registration by the College of Massage Therapists of BC • Active Member of the Registered Massage Therapists’ Association of BC Continuing Education : • Muscle Energy Technique (MET for low back I/II, ribs, neck & upper T- spine) • Massage Therapy and the Childbearing year (Pregnancy and the complicated pregnancy, Labour, Birth, Postpartum) • Advanced breast care training for manual therapists • TMJ (Temporo-Mandibular Joint) (M.Dixon/S.Anderson, J. Cory, N.Rao) • Connective tissue system (Willem Fourie) • Certification Infant Massage Teacher, CIMT (Tina Allan/Liddlekidz Foundation) • Baby Massage Therapy Training program (C. Sutherland) • International Association of Infant Massage, training • Pediatric Massage Therapy • Massage in Schools Programme, Instructor • Workshops on postural analysis, core stabilization exercise, body-ball exercise, yoga • LaStone therapy (hot and cold stones hydrotherapy) • Fascial Integration Series, I to VIII (Natale Rao) currently, 2013-4-5 Marie Arcand, RMT is available at Broadway Wellness on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays (9:30am-7:30pm), and is currently welcoming new clients. For any last minute changes with your appointments please email clinic@broadwaywellness.org or call Marie at 778.321.7712.

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Registered massage therapists help with whiplash is an injury that you experience, that most people experience, from car accidents. You can also have it from a sports injury.The technical term for whiplash in the medical literature is whiplash associated disorders, or WAD, and that’s what we’re going to refer to it as today. WAD happens when your head is thrown about, usually forward and sometimes backwards and side to side and treatment from a local RMT Registered Massage Therapist .

It can be any other direction but that’s the general idea. And it’s an acceleration, deacceleration injury when the neck structures have to respond to that force that comes into you.The types of symptoms that you might expect after a car accident and a whiplash injury would be anywhere from moderate to no symptoms at all. And the moderate symptoms generally consist of stiffness in the neck, some mild achiness, maybe some mild headache, and you might feel that you’re more sensitive to cold than you normally are.

The more severe symptoms that people might feel are ringing in the ears, dizziness, loss of memory and pain coming down their arms. With whiplash injuries, there are many factors that go into deciding how much pain you’re going to be in.The force of the impact is one, and in some cases – not all cases – people have what they call low velocity injuries, where it’s a slow-moving, low-impact, but the patient experiences a lot of pain afterwards.

And a lot of patients have really bad injuries and have no pain afterwards, and so what’s the difference? The difference is the intangible factors that come into deciding how much pain you have. One of them – or a couple of them – are social factors and often seeing a local RMT Registered Massage Therapist .

So, how your social life, your home life, your work life is going. If you’re experiencing any anxiety and depression at the time. Also, general health will affect how much pain you experience, so the better your health the less impact it’s going to have, the worse your health you’re going to experience more pain.Women also tend to experience more pain after car accidents and whiplash injuries, and it’s generally thought it’s the ligament laxity or the joints are a little bit looser in women, they tend to be more flexible, so when impact comes they move more and tend to be injured more during car accidents.If you have any further questions about whiplash injuries, you can go see your local rehabilitation therapist. Those therapists are either your massage therapist, your physiotherapist or your chiropractor.