Amanda Pereira, Registered Massage Therapy

🤝🏼business partners🤝🏼

As some of you already know, Gavin and I were classmates at Fanshawe College where we both earned our Advanced Diploma’s in Massage Therapy. We have been registrants with the CMTO and small business owners since 2021!

Building our clinic and collaborating these past few months has been so rewarding and we are so grateful and appreciative of the response we have been getting from our clients! Just wanted to take the time to thank you for instilling trust in our practices and your on-going support 🫶🏼

Catch you in the clinic!
-A&G

Massage is no longer a luxury!

I always ask new clients when their last treatment was and far too often the response is “I’ve never had a massage before” or “a couple years ago”. While some see massage as a luxury, I urge more people to view massage therapy as a necessity that your body requires on a regular basis. The more often you receive treatment, the easier it will be to maintain good health.

Many health insurance companies now have great RMT coverage as it has become more prevalent amongst people to seek massage as they realize how necessary regular massage therapy is.

This is your sign to incorporate massage therapy into your self-care routine! 💆🏻‍♀️

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The new treatments rooms✨

It’s been so nice to start treatments in the new rooms and see it all come together!

A special thank you to my parents for the all their hard work and the countless hours spent at the gym/clinic to build this beautiful clinic! None of this would be possible without the handiness of my dad and the creativity of my mom👷🏽‍♂️👩🏻‍🎨 thank you for everything you do!

Ready to take on this new business era 🥳

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Time for expansion!!! 🚧

I’m so happy to share I will be expanding my massage therapy business and adding 2 more treatment rooms & and a RMT💆🏻‍♀️💆🏻

I will be staying at the same location (wallace rd) but will be needing to renovate my space in order to do so! Renovations are underway and I cannot wait to start practising in my new and improved space✨

All thanks to my clients unwavering support and loyalty am I able to expand and add another RMT to the business!!

fyi: the epic athlete development gym is staying just things will look a little different!

Stay tuned for all the updates along the way 😀

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Big news coming soon!!! 🥳🤩

I can’t wait to share what I’ve been working on lately! This has been something I’ve always aspired to do and wanted to make sure it was the perfect time for my business !!

Stay tuned for further updates ☺️

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Happy New Year!!🥂✨

After reflecting on my first full calendar year in business, I would like to thank everyone for your loyalty, kindness and generosity you’ve shown me in 2022. To everyone who booked appointments, left me reviews, or spread word of my practice, I cannot thank you enough! The trust you place in my business means everything to me and you have shaped my business in ways I never envisioned! I truly have the best clientele🫶🏼

Thank you for an amazing 2022. I am ready to get back at it to continue treating and supporting you along your health and wellness journeys in 2023! ✨

Here’s to great health and happiness in the new year🥂

🎅🏼Holiday Hours🎅🏼

🎅🏼I will be closed for the holidays on December 24th-January 1st and resuming regular business hours on January 2nd 2023!

🎅🏼Make sure you take some time to yourself this holiday season to relax and recharge for the new year ahead of us! I’ll be spending quality time with friends and family this holiday!

🎅🏼Happy holidays everyone! Stay safe!

⚠️ updated business hours⚠️

⚠️ I am officially fully booked for the remainder of 2022. Please feel free to DM or email me ([email protected]) if you would like to be added to my ongoing cancellation list for 2022!

🎅🏼Holiday hours to be posted soon!

🤰🏻prenatal massage🤰🏻

swipe to learn about the benefits of pregnancy massage! 👶🏼

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When you support a small business, you support a dream ✨

Support the small business who support the areas you live, work and play.

Shop small and grow your community!

Let’s:
shop local 🛒
eat local 🍽
spend local 💵
& enjoy local ☺️

Let’s make sure we are taking care of our bodies regularly, not just when we are in extreme pain!

Most often people will schedule a massage only after an injury has occurred. By scheduling a monthly maintenance massage this is one of the best ways you can prevent injury!

Haven’t scheduled a massage in months? Then it’s time for you make time for yourself! Your body will thank you!


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Factors that Affect the Healing Process🤕

Below is a more in depth explanation of each contributing factor!

😰Severity: a severe injury where more tissue is damaged will take longer to heal
than a mild injury where there is little tissue damage.

🧓🏼Age: in older adults, there is a slowing of fibroblast production and wound contraction. Characteristics of collagen and elastin fibres
change. The skin loses its ability to hold water and becomes thinner.

🦠Infection: results in poor healing as it causes an increased inflammatory response and increased local tissue necrosis which will impair wound healing.

🥗Nutritional support: good vitamins and minerals from food are required for an adequate healing process.

🤒Existing conditions: conditions such as diabetes have associated vascular problems as well as causing an increased susceptibility to infection.

🩸Inadequate blood flow interferes with the local nutritional needs, removal of toxins, bacteria and debris and may be the result of edema.

🩹Wound separation: open wounds with a large gap will heal slower than smaller wounds.

💊Effects of some drugs: steroids inhibit the inflammatory process, collagen synthesis and, in turn, the healing process.

🚭Smoking: smoking delays healing and interferes with the actions of certain drugs.

Reference: Rattray, F. S., & Ludwig, L. (2019). Clinical massage therapy: Understanding, assessing and treating over 70 conditions.

Celebrating 1 year in business 🎉

Choosing to start my own massage therapy practice in the midst of the pandemic was scary to say the least. I remember feeling incredibly hesitant and foolish to start up a business that required touch when being 6ft apart was the new norm. Fast forward to one year later and am I ever glad I didn’t let these insecurities sway me away.

I am so fortunate I was able to bring my massage therapy services into my brothers business .athletedevelopment and have our own family business for the last year. Thanks to my dad for building me the perfect room and to my mom for helping me accessorize it 🥰

The response I have received from everyone who has come to my practice has been incredible. It has been a pleasure getting to meet and provide my services to each one of you. I feel so grateful that you can open up and share your story with me and allow me to be apart of your health and wellness journey and be a practitioner you can trust. Thank you for instilling your trust in me and I will continue to provide the upmost quality care you deserve for years to come.

Starting your own business is incredibly challenging, humbling but very rewarding and I’m so glad I put all my energy and sincere effort into doing so.

Thank you to my clients for your loyalty, my friends who believed in me when I didn’t and my family for your endless support in everything I do.

To many more years to come! 💆🏻‍♀️

☀️Back in clinic Monday May 16th! I will be accepting bookings for the last two weeks of May and into June!

☀️Prebook to secure your spot for when I’m back!

Coming Soon: Infant Massage Therapy👶🏻

👶🏼 super excited to be extending my massages services to help treat babies! Thanks to for the super informative workshop today!

👶🏽 stayed tuned for further information as I will be posting the benefits of infant massage and everything you will need to know in terms of initial appointments/assessments and booking.

👶🏾 know any new or expecting parents? Share this post with them and see how I can help your babies!

👩🏻‍🍼looking forward to meeting and treating your little ones ☺️

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🩻 Anatomy of the Spine 🩻

Often times in practice I will refer to various spinal segments and try to educate my clients on the anatomy and segments that make up the spine!

It can be tricky to visualize, so I created a simple illustration of the segments that compose the spine!

The spine is composed of 33 bones (vertebrae) that are divided into 5 sections:

• Cervical Spine:
- Connected to the base of the skull, this section is responsible for mobility and normal functioning of the neck, as well as protection of the spinal cord, arteries and nerves

• Thoracic Spine:
- Located at chest level, the thoracic vertebrae are labeled T1 to T12 and serve as attachment sites for the rib cage

• Lumbar Spine:
- Situated between the thoracic spine and the sacrum. The five lumbar vertebrae (L1 to L5) is the main weight-bearing section of the spinal column

• Sacrum:
- This spinal section does not have discs separating the vertebrae as seen in the sections above. This is because S1 to S5, are fused together and where the pelvis connects to the spinal column

• Coccyx:
- The very base of the spinal column and is made of 3-5 (varies) segments that are fused together

Hope this basic overview of the spine can help you understand the anatomy of the spine a little bit better! 🤓 (big anatomy fan!)

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🥵 A very common misconception is that massages need to hurt to work, which is completely untrue!

😌 Massages should always be within your tolerance and RMTs may refer to a “pain scale” during a treatment to ensure sure you are never in pain.

💬 Open communication in regards to pressure throughout the treatment between you and your RMT is essential. Do not feel embarrassed to speak up and ask for a different pressure!!

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Experiencing painful muscle spasms? 😣

Give these tips a try:

1. Stretching🧘🏽‍♂️
2. Massage therapy💆🏼‍♀️
3. Heating pads & ice♨️🧊
4. Regular exercise🏃🏽‍♀️
5. Stay hydrated💧

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🔴What your cupping colours tell you🔴

🤕A common misconception is that cupping bruises the skin. It’s important to understand that the circular marks left behind with cupping are not bruises. Bruises are caused by direct trauma and impact that breaks the capillaries in the injured area.

🛎There should be no compression or impact with cupping. Cupping will do the opposite, as it will lift and draw the skin, fascia and muscle upwards into the cup.

🩸The marks left behind are a result of an increase in blood flow brought to where the cups have been placed. The darker the mark, the more stagnant blood flow is and also an increase in fluid in that area (blood, toxins, lymph). These areas are typically also where muscles can feel tight and achey.

🗓The marks can last 1-14 days post treatment. The more often you receive cupping for the same issue, the area should get lighter, meaning blood flow is unblocked/circulating better by cupping therapy.

💦It is also important to note you may experience mild tenderness post treatment. Drinking plenty of water and stretching/range of motion activities are beneficial after a cupping therapy treatment as this further helps circulation.

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Here are a few facts about Registered Massage Therapists Practising in Ontario💆🏻‍♀️

1. Only registrant’s can use the title of RMT or MT. This means they’ve completed the mandatory 2-3 year schooling, successfully passed the CMTO board exams and have become fully registered ✅

2. RMTs not only treat but also assess any physical dysfunction and pain of soft tissue & joints! 🦴

3. Knowledge and skills are continually being developed via self assessments, peer assessments and continuing education courses 📚

See how an RMT can help you!

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In my practice I welcome all regardless of accessibility, gender, ethnicity, age or sexual orientation. My treatment room is always a safe space for all.

Infants, children, teens, adults, elderly, expecting mothers, cancer patients, athletes, para/quadriplegics, manual and physical labour occupations, desk workers; the list goes on.

Whether it is to reduce your stress levels, soothe anxiety, improve your sleep, relieve headaches, manage pain, aid in injury recovery, we all can benefit from the positive effects massage therapy can offer.

Never had a massage before and interested in a treatment? Book yourself in for an assessment + massage!

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💀Muscles of Mastication💀

The primary muscles include:
• Masseter: the prime mover in elevation of the mandible (closing the jaw/clenches the teeth) Did you know because of the leverage it develops on the mandible (jaw), many consider it one of the strongest muscles in the body!

• Temporalis: acts to elevate and retract the jaw

• Lateral Pterygoid: is the only muscle of mastication that helps open the jaw

• Medial Pterygoid: muscle most responsible for lateral deviation, needed for chewing (shifting the jaw side to side)

😬Clenching from stress, grinding of the teeth at night, and chewing gum are a few examples that can lead to tightness & myospasm in these muscles. Muscles of mastication may be associated with tension headaches and TMJ dysfunction.

💆🏽‍♀️Massage therapy can help decrease trigger points in these muscles, improve range of motion in the jaw, and decrease pain!

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2022 Goals 🎯

Listed are a few of the courses I wish to take in 2022 to further expand my knowledge and expertise in such fields!

👶🏼 infants are a demographic I wish to cater to and provide treatments for this year. Paediatric massage can help your baby feel relaxed, which may improve their sleep!

🩹athletic taping was always something I benefited from playing hockey, so I would love to take a taping course to provide the same benefit for the athletes I treat!

😬 TMJ Dysfunction is a common condition I have seen in my practice so far and a condition I have great interest in. I would love to expand my manual techniques for the jaw.

🦴joint mobilizations is an effective technique to decrease pain and increase range of motion in axial and peripheral joints. I would love to keep learning different approaches in joint mobs to add to my practice!

⛑ healthcare practitioners are encouraged each year to renew our First Aid HCP Certification. I plan to renew this in 2022 as it is super important to remain vigilant and up to date with First Aid & CPR.

I hope you can hold me accountable to these goals!

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✨Happy New Year✨

Thank you to all my clients for an amazing second half of 2021! I can’t thank you enough for your continued support and trust you’ve placed in my small business!

On March 9, 2021 I took my OSCE board exam and became fully registered on May 12, 2021! On May 25th I opened for business (feeling incredibly nervous/excited/proud). Choosing to start my own practice in 2021 was the best decision I made!

I’m so grateful for the opportunity to meet my clients from diverse walks of life and treat various conditions and concerns in 2021. It has been so fulfilling to be part of your self-care and wellness journeys.

There are many more courses/certifications I wish to add to better serve you in 2022! I look forward to seeing you in the new year and welcoming more new faces!

Wishing you a safe, healthy, and prosperous new year 🎉💆🏻‍♀️😊

I hope those who celebrate had a safe and Merry Christmas!✨🎄… I know I sure did! To those who opened up a Massage Gift Certificate, I can’t wait to treat you!! 🎟

You more than likely have heard me talk about my furry friend during my treatments (if not) meet Max! He’s a 10 year old Biewer Yorkie 🐶 no gifts under the tree for Max this year but that’s because he gets spoiled everyday of the year 🤪

I’m spending my time off with family eating lots of good food and playing lots of games! 🦀🃏

Feeling refreshed and renegergized for 2022! 🎉Can’t wait to get back to use my new electric table 👀

See you Monday January 3rd! Happy holidays everyone! 😊

❄️ Holiday Hours ❄️

❄️Amanda Pereira, Registered Massage Therapy will be closed from Friday December 24th and will be returning on Monday January 3rd, 2022.

❄️ If you’re on my cancelation list, keep a close eye on your email for any availability that may open up!

❄️ Lets all take a break this holiday to relax, recharge and start the new year refreshed! 💪🏼

❄️ Who’s making regular massage therapy appointments a new year’s resolution !? 👀


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📈When dealing with injury and pain it can either overtake you or you can look at them as an opportunity to improve, learn, and grow. Injury is not just a process of recovery but also a process of discovery. Keep patient and grow through what you go through📈

📣2021 IS NEARLY FULLY BOOKED📣

Need a massage but can’t find a date/time that works for you? Get yourself on my cancellation list for any last minute cancellations in December! 📝

If you'd like to be added to the list please send me a message! Please also let me know what time works best for you (AM or PM) 🗓

Clients will be contacted in order of messages received. A quick reply will be appreciated so I can get to the next client as soon as possible!

Take care 🤗

37 days until Christmas! 🎁✨

Struggling to find the perfect gift for that special someone? 🎁

Give them the gift of relaxation! 💆🏼‍♀️

Massage gift certificates are available for purchase! 🎁

Interested in purchasing a gift certificate? Send me a message for further details!

💗THANK YOU in joining me this October in surpassing my fundraising goal and raising $610.00 for breast cancer research!🎗

💗 With 1 in 8 Canadian women expected to develop breast cancer in their lifetime, your support matters more than ever🎗

💗The Canadian Cancer Society funds research that helps prevent, find and treat breast cancer, and provide more patients and families with access to support programs to ensure no one faces breast cancer alone🎗

💗 Thank you to everyone who came for a massage and to those who donated separately🎗