On this page:
- All Bodywork is Clothed.
- Therapies Offered / Therapeutic Approach.
- What is Melting Muscles?
- Pricing, including sliding scale options.
1. All Bodywork is Clothed
Keeping your clothing on, helps your brain feel safer to relax your muscles. I have published a book about the benefits of clothed massage, available on Amazon.
To make an appointment, ask a question or make a time for our free phone consultation, please use the Contact Form:
We can do bodywork outdoors when the weather permits. I have a nice home-office in NW Tucson that is a small building that stands off of the house. Major cross streets are La Canada and Ina.
The approach is equal partnership. I do not see therapy as me fixing you. When your muscles relax a long-standing tension or guarding pattern, this is because your brain participated. I will guide you how to do your part in our partnership.
I specialize in people who have tried other therapies and have not yet experienced the changes they want. I have extensive training in many Osteopathic Techniques including Craniosacral, Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation (PNF, MET), injury assessment and treatment.
In Washington State I was a Preferred Provider of Medical Massage Therapy for Blue Cross / Blue Shield, Group Health, and Providian from 1995-1999.
I also have extensive training in Reiki and essence balancing using hands-on or hands-above to facilitate energy balancing. This can be added to your massage at the beginning for no additional fee, just ask. I will not use energy unless you ask me to.
In your session you may bring a friend or loved one to sit in the session with you. We can leave the door open. I will introduce you to my wife if she is around. We can leave the doors open, windows open and/or work on the patio in the shade or sun.
I often treat these conditions with good results:
- People who have symptoms or conditions that have not responded to other therapies.
- Headaches and jaw tension.
- Hip tension and low back pain.
- Injury assessment. I will recommend you see a doctor for many things, and other things we can treat today like tendinitis.
- Neck pain, stiffness, and loss of ability to turn your head. Can you turn your head to see oncoming traffic when you drive? Or must you use mirrors instead?
- Tendinitis treatment of wrists, elbows, shoulder rotator-cuff tendons, knee and ankle tendons and ligaments and plantar fascitis, including ice-therapy.
Specializing in the Neck: I have written articles, handouts and created videos especially for treating the atlanto-axial joint of the neck. This is the "No" movement of the neck, or rotating your head left and right, such as turning your head to see oncoming traffic.
My technique with the neck is very very gentle, and moves at your pace. Once your body is accepting my touch, I can work deeper on particular neck muscles within your tolerance, including the Obliquus Capitis Inferior, Suboccipitals, Splenius Capitis, Levator Scapula, Upper Trapezius and Sterno-Cleido-Mastoid.
I had numerous head injuries from age 14 to 20 which led to decades of neck guarding and pain. While that was uncomfortable for me, I am glad that it inspired me to find the most effective ways to help you with your neck.
To say I specialize in the neck does not mean I lack skill in other body areas. I had an on-job low back strain around 1992 which inspired me to study and improve upon methods for relieving low back pain and tension. I had knee surgeries and many sports-injuries and know what it is like to suffer and to recover.
Benefits of bodywork with Patrick:
- You feel more optimistic, lighter and freer.
- Your body has more mobility, capability, flexibility and less pain.
- You feel cared for, and heard.
- Calm and awake, curious and interested.
Usually it is to your benefit to have regular sessions for a while until you stabilize with a new balance that you can maintain.
3. How Melting Muscles Works
My first bodywork article, "Melting Muscles" was first published in 2002 in Massage & Bodywork Magazine, then in 2003 in Massage Therapy Journal. Now you can purchase the book at Amazon.
Melting Muscles is a comfortable method that helps with:
- Frozen Shoulder and other Rotator Cuff problems.
- Atlas and Axis, or difficulty rotating your head.
- Low Back Pain including hips, sacrum and pelvis.
- Neck Pain including stiffness.
- Joint stiffness, soreness and pain.
- Fibromyalgia.
- Tendinitis (Tendonitis) or bits of scar tissue from overuse or from a fall or from an injury.
- Pain in the bottom of the foot or heel.
- Accident recovery and job injuries.
- Old traumas, guarding and tension.
- Resolving your conflicts and issues that show up as muscle tension.
- Headaches and jaw tension.
- Wrist and thumb pain, and other ailments from overuse of computers and devices.
Melting Muscles can be done with very light pressure and continues to be very effective even with firm or heavy pressure.
“Why is my muscle so tight all the time?”
People ask me this all the time. Our brains tense our muscles whenever we feel threatened.
The threat could have been falling out of a tree when you were little, or things earlier than that. It could have been that you were surprised by an automobile accident from behind.
The brain makes muscles tighter in order to armor the body, to reduce mobility, to inhibit action, or to harden the outer muscles to protect the inner soft stuff. Muscle Guarding is sometimes called Armoring.
The brain will enact muscle guarding both for physical dangers and for symbolic or emotional perceived threats, past, present and future. An example of a future threat would be an upcoming exam or interview, or the need to move out of a safe beloved house.
During a Melting Muscles session, your muscles will soften in the moment. Within the first four minutes, I can feel one of your muscles sinking, softening and melting.
I will say to you, "I feel this muscle relaxing. Can you feel it?"
4. Bodywork Fees:
Free Email Consultation: Ask me a question using the contact form (above, scroll up) and I will respond by email. Free.
Free Phone Consultation: Use the contact form so we can set a time to talk 15 minutes, your concerns, my responses. Free.
I have given many hours of free services including volunteering for several community service organizations. I enjoy helping people and do so whenever I can. I offer Sliding Scale. We can find a price that works for you. I have never turned anyone away for lack of funds.
The fee is the same whether you are receiving hands-on-body, hands-above Reiki or energy work or talking/coaching sessions.
60 minutes $120.00
Four 60-minute Session 15% discount.
Ten 60-minute Sessions 30% discount.
Please have check ready and either pay in advance or hand me your check on the way in, so we will not be distracted from your healing vibe on the way out. Please write your check to "Patrick Moore LMT", the "LMT" is something I need to deposit into my business account. You may also pay in advance using PayPal or Zelle. I can email you a PayPal invoice if you are not familiar.
Please, no gratuities.
Please wear Comfy Clothes.
Questions? Please contact me using the contact form near the top of this page or click the contact form.
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