Name: Total Freedom Wellness Spa
Address: 694B Commerce Ct, Prattville, AL, 36066
Telephone: 334-365-8565
Price range: $$

Pre-Massage Consultation

Total Freedom Wellness Spa ensures our highly trained and licensed Massage Therapists deliver results-oriented treatment in every therapeutic service we offer. We take on an individually tailored approach to massage therapy that addresses your unique condition and needs. Each treatment begins with a review of your initial questionnaire and a general assessment to determine areas of restriction and tightness. Please mention any special conditions so your therapist can maximize the effectiveness of the session.

Relaxation Massage and Bodywork

Swedish Massage

Light to medium pressure incorporating long gliding strokes and kneading techniques on the upper layers of the muscles! This massage relaxes muscles, improves circulation, increases range of motion, and stimulates the skin and nervous system. It enhances balance and harmony while creating a sense of relaxed well-being.

30 Min $45.00

60 Min $80.00

90 Min $110.00

Aromatherapy

Based on your mind-body type and where you may be experiencing an imbalance or specific aches and pains, essential oils are mixed into our base massage oil, customized for you that day. Prepare to let go and be swept away. Balancing for your body, your mind, and your spirit. This isn't just a massage, this is an experience.

60 Min $80.00

90 Min $110.00

Advanced Massage and Bodywork

Custom Combination Massage

Varied pressure utilizing a combination of several massage techniques, your therapist will create a unique treatment specifically for you. Modalities may include Swedish, deep tissue, trigger point release, and passive stretching.

60 Min $80.00

90 Min $110.00

Deep Tissue Massage

Firm Pressure this type of massage delves deeply to reach the muscle, fascia, and connective tissue. Applied judiciously by a skilled practitioner, it may help improve posture, ease movement, and release chronic tension. The pressure is strong! Ideal for severe or chronic muscle tightness. Some soreness might result after treatment.

30 Min $45.00

60 Min $80.00

90 Min $110.00

Neuromuscular and Trigger Point Therapy

Designed to release "Chronic Pain" tight contracted muscle bands, activated trigger points (knots), and accumulated lactic acid (toxins) in the body. Deep, intensive holds and releases stimulate blood flow to restricted areas and relieve knotted muscles that are unable to fully release on their own. Some soreness might result after treatment.

60 Min $80.00

90 Min $110.00

Sports Massage

Medium to firm pressure a more vigorous stroke is used to reduce muscle tension, relieve swelling, enhance circulation, and promote flexibility. A treatment especially designed for pre – and post-athletic events and is used to alleviate the tension that accumulates during physical activity. Stretching may be incorporated.

60 Min $80.00

90 Min $110.00

Myofascial Release Bodywork

Is a deep tissue form of bodywork, which targets the Fascia to provide pain, and relief that lasts! Fascia is the connective tissue that holds our bodies together. Fascia restrictions put abnormal pressure on nerves, muscles, blood vessels, bones, organs, and the brain, resulting in the inefficient function of these structures. Pain, restriction of motion, and structural misalignment are some of the consequences. Myofascial Release techniques will free up the "straightjacket" of pressure, and release holding patterns throughout the body.

90 Min, One Therapist $120.00

Tech Neck Massage

Tech Neck is a syndrome that has arisen in our lives as we are glued to our computer screens for work and hobbies. Symptoms: Rounded shoulders, pain between the shoulder blades, inflammation in the cervical spine, possible migraine headaches and muscle Fatigue, tight neck, tingling "pins and needles" in the fingers or forearms, knots in the shoulders, strained pectoral muscles, and pain throughout the back. When we slave over our computers all day, we hunch over, flex our neck, and arch our backs. The rhomboids (in the back) become weak and rounded while the pectoral muscles (in the chest) shorten and tighten. The hunching activity of these muscles leads to a "pulling" on the neck muscles. This pulling leads to further rounding of the shoulders, which in time leads to a slight hump between the shoulder blades (the cervical spine). We begin the treatment with a 10-minute session on the Whole Body Vibe to encourage blood flow and loosen muscles in the upper body. This is followed by a series of manual techniques to release upper body discomfort.

30 Min $45.00

60 Min $80.00

Upper Middle and Low Back Massage

This Back Massage focuses on releasing stress and tension from the muscles of your back. We often don't realize that our day-to-day activities, when done in the incorrect positions can lead to soreness and tension that can lead to more serious conditions.

30 Min $45.00

60 Min $80.00

Head and Sinus Point Facial Massage

Great for sinus problems, headaches, and migraines. The art of "Head and Scalp Massage" was created exclusively for head and neck tension. This treatment emphasizes the scalp and neck. Using the pads of the fingers, deep, strong pressure is applied and incorporates pressure points specifically to relieve tension in the skull. Head cradling and occipital release (direct pressure applied to the base of the skull and top of the neck. Re-circulates the blood in the skull for a very tranquil and relaxing

30 Min $45.00

60 Min $80.00

Lower Back, Gluts, and Abdominal Bodywork

Most of us have experienced back pain at some point in our lives. You may choose many different paths in order to bring about relief from the pain. Your physician may give you anti-inflammatory medications and tell you to rest. You may go to physical therapy, have a hot pack on your back, be given a number of exercises, and continue this three times a week for six weeks. At the end you may feel some relief, unsure of whether it was the therapy or time itself. You see your chiropractor, but it seems that relief, if any, only remains if we keep going back for more adjustments. Massage certainly feels good, but did it help the pain in a lasting way? Have any of the people you have seen for back pain looked in the front of your body? So often, the musculature and fascia (connective tissue) deep in the front of the low back become shortened, through excessive sitting and through overuse. Add onto that any pelvic surgeries or childbirth and the deep musculature becomes shortened to the point where it is pulling back so far that the "real" back muscles go into spasm, creating pain. Treating only the back will seldom get to the source of the pain. Myofascial Release addresses all areas, concentrating on the deep musculature of the front of the back and the spine can resume its normal place.

30 Min $45.00

60 Min $80.00

Reflexology

Reflexology is a type of massage that involves applying different amounts of pressure to the feet. Reflexology has the ability to stimulate nerve functions that help your body increase your energy levels, circulation, and central nervous system, prevent migraines, clear urinary infections, sleep disorders, and depression. It is also a very relaxing session.

60 Min $70.00

Myofascial Release

Myofascial Release is a deep tissue form of bodywork, which targets the Fascia to provide pain, relieve that last!

Fascia is the connective tissue that holds our bodies together. Fascia restrictions puts abnormal pressure on nerves, muscles, blood vessels, bones, organs, and the brain, resulting in inefficient function if these structures. Pain, restriction of motion and structural misalignment are some of the consequence. Myofascial Release techniques will free up the "straightjacket" of pressure, and release holding patterns throughout the body.

Most of us have experienced back pain at some point in our lives.

You may choose many different paths in order to bring about relief from the pain. Your physician may give you anti-inflammatory medications and tell you to rest. You may go to physical therapy, and have a hot pack on your back, be given a number of exercises, and continue this three times a week for six weeks. At the end you may feel some relief, unsure of whether it was the therapy or time itself. You see your chiropractor, but it seems that relief, if any, only remains if we keep going back for more adjustments. Massage certainly feels good, but did it help the pain in a lasting way?

Have any of the people you have seen for back pain looked in the front of your body?

So often, the musculature and fascia (connective tissue) deep in the front of the low back become shortened, through excessive sitting and through overuse. Add onto that any pelvic surgeries or childbirth and the deep musculature becomes shortened to the point where it is pulling back so far that the "real" back muscles go into spasm, creating pain.

Treating only the back will seldom get to the source of the pain.

Myofascial Release addresses all areas, concentrating on the deep musculature of the front of the back and the spine can resume its normal place.

Myofascial Stretching Tools

Myofascial Release (hands-on treatment by a therapist) and Myofascial Stretching (self-treatment using Myofascial Release principles)

Myofascial Release (hands-on treatment by a therapist) and Myofascial Stretching (self-treatment using Myofascial Release principles) are dramatically effective in reducing pain and improving quality of life. This is often the missing link in resolving problematic cases of pain and dysfunction.

Think of Fascia as Your Inner Bodysuit

A system of densely woven connective tissue that covers you from head to toe. It twists around your organs, muscles, nerves, arteries and veins, providing essential stability and support. It's the primary focus of myofascial release, an intense therapy that digs deep to heal the fascia below.

Under pressure

Healthy connective tissue is supremely flexible, but damage of any kind – through surgery, injury, even years of bad posture – can restrict your range of motion and trigger painful pressure.

At the Myofascial Pain Relief Center in Rochester

At the Myofascial Pain Relief Center in Rochester, N.Y., physical therapist Walt Fritz helps clients overcome pain with the therapy. He begins each session by studying a client's posture for alignment irregularities that could be contributing to the pain. He then assesses the overall health of the client's connective tissue, targeting the least flexible areas. "Injured fascia doesn't give like healthy tissue," he says.

Finally, using his hands, he applies gentle but sustained pressure for a minimum of two minutes on the most affected areas.

The technique reduces the built-up tension and rigidity of a specific section of connective tissue. Unlike yoga or massage – which Fritz calls a "short-term stretch" – manipulating fascia is meant to have a structural effect. "Myofascial's goal is to make long-lasting changes in the health of the connecting tissue," he explains.

Unlike Rolfing or deep-tissue massage, a myofascial release session isn't necessarily painful.

A trained practitioner will not force a release that doesn't come naturally, and every person has multiple layers of stiffness that may require several secessions to breakthrough. Also, the most direct route is not always the most effective path to recovery. For example, Fritz often treats back pain from the front of the body and will focus on tight quadriceps to solve knee problems.

DIY relief

While it's best to see a trained myofascial practitioner for serious treatment, you can access the fascia through everyday stretching.

Whether it's a 10-minute stretch after a run, or a two-hour yoga class, you can shift your movements from the muscular surface to the deeper recesses of the connective tissue. Instead of pushing immediately to your end range – the farthest you can stretch without hurting yourself – stop when you begin to feel the first resistance. "The body goes into protective mode when you reach for an end-range stretch," Fritz explains. "People should hold their stretches for at least two minutes and work toward extended-duration stretches" says Marisa Lowenstein.

Fascia also plays an important role in the support of our bodies, since it surrounds and has attachments to all structures.

These structures would not be able to provide the ability without the constant pull of the fascia system. In fact, our bones can be thought of as tent poles, which cannot support the structure without the constant support of the guide wires (or fascia) to keep an adequate amount of tension to allow the tent (or body) to remain upright with proper equilibrium.

In the normal healthy state, the fascia is relaxed and wavy in configuration.

It has the ability to stretch and move without restriction. When we experience physical trauma, scarring, or inflammation, however, the fascia looses its pliability. It becomes tight, restricted and a source of tension to the rest of the body. Trauma, such as a fall, whiplash, surgery or just habitual poor posture over time and repetitive stress injuries has a cumulative effect. The changes they cause in the fascial system comfort and the functioning of our body. The fascia can exert excessive pressure producing pain or restriction of motion. They affect our flexibility and stability, and are a determining factor in our ability to withstand stress and strain.

The use of Myofascial Release allows me to look at each patient as a unique individual.

Our one-on-one therapy sessions are hands-on during which I use a multitude of Myofascial techniques and movement therapy. We promote independence through education in proper body mechanics and movement, through the enhancement of strength, flexibility, and postural and movement awareness.

While Myofascial Release may share some commonalities with traditional massage, it is a modality that reaches deeper and creates lasting change.

It shares a common goal with standard physical therapy practice, however works from a different perspective. In a traditional physical therapy setting, pain is often viewed as a result of weakness. Strengthening an already tight system often only makes the problem worse. Myofascial Release relieves the tightness and pressure from your body, allowing strength and function to return in a natural manner and returning you to your desired state.

Inch Loss Body Wrap

Shed some inches in just one session! Shapes, Compresses, Firms and Tightens the Skin.

An inch loss body wrap nourishes and rejuvenates the skin.

The clay forms, compresses, firms, and tightens the skin while shaping the body with vitamins, minerals, and natural ingredients.

The Swedish Miracle Body Wrap System combines the finest natural ingredients from northern Europe

With the Egyptian art of pressure wrapping to tighten, contour, and deeply cleanse the body.

Swedish Miracle products are specially formulated with amino nutrients

The building blocks of protein. Used in conjunction with rich natural sea clays, Swedish Miracle compresses, nourishes and rejuvenates the skin.

Far Infrared Sauna

After wrapping the body, continue to shed those inches with a 30 minute infrared sauna session, that will enhance your ability to meet your inch loss goals.

Burn Fat

Relax while you burn up to 600 calories.

Flush Toxins

Sweat out 20% toxins & 80% water retention.

Skin Rejuvenation

Hydrates & Deeply cleanses impurities.

Cardiovascular Fitness

Increase body's heart rate, same as vigorous exercises.

Benefits Include

Incredible Instant Inches Lost

Far Infrared Weightloss Detox Sauna

Burn up to 600 Calories

Sweat Out 30% Toxins

Firmer, More Toned Skin

Lasting Hydration

Far Infrared Sauna

Dr. Oz says the Infrared Sauna is the most powerful Detox available.

It burns 600 calories in 30 minutes without lifting a finger. Detox can be very helpful for people with the following: allergies, depression, lower blood pressure, anxiety, headaches, arthritis, digestive disorders, heart disease, chronic infections, asthma, high cholesterol, obesity.

Far Infrared radiation is a safe and gentle form of radiation in the 5.6-15 micron wavelength range.

Extensive research has demonstrated that this type of radiation is of most benefit to our bodies because of its therapeutic and tissue regenerative properties. Infrared heat is so safe that it is used by hospitals in incubators to warm newborns.

Benefits Include

Fat Burner

While you relax your body sweats and burns up to 600 calories in 30 minutes, equal to a 60 minute swimming workout in just one sauna session.

Pain Reliever

Increased blood circulation ensures the delivery of sufficient oxygen rich blow to all joints and muscles, assisting the healing process for all muscle and joint-related ailments.

Detox

Deep penetration, combined with the resonance between far infrared waves and those emitted from the tissue cells of your body, ensures that toxins are more quickly removed from muscles and joints, while the perspiration process ensures toxins are removed from the skin.

Skin Regeneration

The far-infrared heat penetrates the deep layers of the skin thereby stimulating cell replacement and deep cleansing of impurities.

Stress Reduction

The warm soothing effect of the radiation will provide immediate benefit to tightened and knotted muscles, leaving the user feeling refreshed and invigorated.

Cardiovascular Fitness

Use of the sauna enhances blood circulation, stimulating the perspiration process and in turn increasing the body's heart rate and overall cardiac output. This achieves a similar cardiovascular conditioning as vigorous exercise.

Boosted Immune System

The infrared heat strengthens the body's immune response, resulting in increased resistance to disease. Recent studies show cold and flu symptoms are reduced dramatically in treated early with infrared heat.

Whole Body Vibration

While the use of vibration therapy and training is a still relatively new concept to most health and fitness and medical professionals, it certainly does not suffer from lack of supportive research, and while there is obviously much research yet to be done in the area, the overwhelming consistency of findings from scientific research that currently exists on the subject is a compelling precursor to the vibe's potential applications and impact on this revolutionary method of training and treatment.

Muscles

The effect of vibration results in what scientific literature calls 'Tonic Vibration Reflex' or 'TVR'. That is a repeated myotatic reflex or stretch reflex. This means that the vibrated muscle has to work very hard, while the subject or player using the vibe does nothing other than balance on the platform. The effect per pulsation is like that of the knee jerk reflex. This muscle activity can be measured by use of electromyography (EMG). For example, in a one repetition maximum effort, the muscle(s) involved are activated 100% voluntarily. However with vibration training on the vibe the muscles work at 200 to 300% of this IRM activation. This is an ideal way to train, especially when the muscle does not function properly, for example with weakened muscles in the elderly, or after injuries.

Hormones

Research shows that after vibration training (just one session!), there is a high excretion of Testosterone and Growth Hormone. There is also a drop in the stress hormone cortisol. This combination has favorable effects on muscle protein synthesis. Increases in Testosterone and Growth Hormone are important in the functioning of both body and mind. Many complaints of the elderly can be traced to a decrease in these hormones. It is essentially these hormones, together with the female hormone estrogen, which are used to combat geriatric complaints so that it is possible to still enjoy life and vitality even when one has reached old age.

Bones

Bone decalcification (osteoporosis) is one of the biggest health problems especially in the elderly and women population. Many elderly people break their bones more easily when they fall because of bone decalcification; the hip is the most notorious in this respect. The onset of osteoporosis is partly due to a lack of movement, which causes muscles to gradually weaken, the circulation to diminish and the bones to be inadequately used. In addition, as a result of the ageing process, the body produces less hormones such as testosterone, estrogen and growth hormone. Yet it is exactly these hormones which play such an important role in the maintenance of strong bones. The advice usually given to sufferers of this disease is to take more exercise, but that is difficult when muscles are weak, particularly in the legs. the vibe offers a good alternative to vigorous impact exercise: through vibration the muscles automatically become stronger and regain their tone. The circulation improves because the blood vessels in the legs are wide open due to the vibration. At the same time, the pulsation gives a direct stimulus to bone tissue, which in turn stimulates the production of new bone tissue. Scientific research shows that vibration training can help against osteoporosis. Recent findings show that even after only one vibration treatment, there is an increase in the hormone testosterone and growth hormone, which are so essential for strong bones.

Neurotransmitters

Parkinson's disease is an example of a deficiency in dopamine, which is the reason that L-Dopa is given as medicine. It is also recognized that serotonin plays a role in our mood, or frame of mind. A shortage of serotonin in the brain can lead to depression, which is the reason that Prozac is given as a medicine in order to increase the serotonin content in the brain. From research, it appears that vibration training also influences the neurotransmitters and the way in which they work. Vibration training increases the serotonin content in the brain, which could possibly explain why one feels so well after vibration training.

Blood Vessels

The effect of vibration training on the blood vessels is clear to see and to feel. After training, one often sees that the skin of the lower leg is colored pink. This is a sign that the blood vessels in that area are wide open. It also explains the feeling which many describe as coming home after a snowball fight with your bare hands, and then putting your hands in a bucket of warm water. A tingling feeling which indicates that your blood vessels are wide open. In Germany, the effect of vibration training is used as therapy for a disturbed peripheral circulation, particularly in the lower legs, such as in chronic venous insufficiency.

Nervous System

The effect on the muscles is reflexively activated via the nervous system. With vibration training, it seems as if pulsations awaken the nerve tract, which could explain the positive effects of vibration training in partial paralysis. In fact, good results have been reported in the experimental treatment of, for example, MS patients.

1st Treatment: 30 Min Infrared Sauna Session

Skin Regeneration: The far-infrared heat penetrates the deep layers of the skin thereby stimulating cell replacement and deep cleansing of impurities.

Opens Pores

Deep Cleansing of the Skin

Removes Deeply Imbedded Toxins

Firms & Improves Skin Tone & Elasticity

Helps to Reduce Wrinkles & makes Skin Look Radiant

2nd Treatment: Nu Skin Galvanic Spa system with Ageloc

Instant Face Lift

Wrinkle Reduction

Amazing Glowing Skin

Look Younger Immediately

Reduces Bags under the Eyes

3rd Treatment: Dpl (Deep Penetrating Light) with Advanced Peptide Serum

Improves Skin Tone

Reduces Fine Lines & Wrinkles

Reduces overall Redness & Flushing

Restore Skin's Natural Cellular Collagen Activity

Take Pleasure in Stretching

ENJOY the feeling of release that comes from lengthening and elongating your muscles.

Welcome to one of life's great pleasures. Stretching is for everyone, young and old, from all walks of life.

You do not have to be a contortionist, professional athlete, or even in good shape to experience its joys and benefits.

Stretching can help you to feel better and even to look better.

Stretching can enhance your day-to-day activities, whether by improving your performance at sports, or just by making reaching up to a that high shelf a little bit easier.

Defining Stretching

Stretching can truly transform your life.

It is a simple and instantly gratifying form of physical release that can energize you in the morning or relax you at night. Stretching is as crucial to the proper functioning of the body as oxygen. By making stretching an integral part of your lifestyle, you will reap its many benefits.

Maintain and improve your flexibility with regular stretching.

It will help to keep your muscles and joints mobile and prevent aches and pains as you get older.

Regular, controlled stretching improves mobility, corrects bad posture, reduces the risk of injury, relieves pain, and even counteracts the effects of aging.

Stretching relaxes the body; helps reduce stress levels, and con help to boost self-esteem.

Everyone, regardless of age or fitness level, can benefit from stretching.

Stretching - An Essential component of fitness

Along with cardiovascular exercise

Along with cardiovascular exercise (which raises your heart rate) and resistance training (lifting weights), stretching is an essential component of a complete fitness regime, yet it is often the most neglected.

People either perceive it as too easy and, as a result

People either perceive it as too easy and, as a result, unnecessary, or too difficult, believing that only the very flexible actually benefit from stretching.

Is It Like Yoga?

Many people think of yoga or Pilates when they think of stretching.

Yoga's original goal was to increase flexibility for the positions of meditation. Pilates is often called moving yoga, but the main goals are torso strength and control. Both yoga and Pilates follow a strict form and require expert instruction to avoid injury.

Stretching is different, in that it is simple.

It aims to align the body, improve posture, and encourage better mechanical movement of the joints, which reduces wear and tear on them. Put simply, stretching helps the body to work harmoniously. Stretching affects more than the 602 muscles of the body. When you stretch muscles, you also mobilize joints, elongate skin, and affect connective tissue, nerves, tendons, and sometimes ligaments.

Why We MUST Stretch

Stretching improves flexibility and energizes the body

Stretching improves flexibility and energizes the body, but it is also important for good posture over our lifetimes, the constant downward pull of gravity and the dehydrating effects of aging cause us gradually to hunch our shoulders and-more alarmingly- to shrink. Regular stretching can help you achieve an upright and energetic posture and a vital, healthy, and pain-free body.

As we grow older, our bodily tissues become leathery.

After years of being right-or left- handed and performing regular activities such as sitting and driving, we start to stiffen into the positions we have assumed through the years. The effect is to leave you sagging, hunched over, and too tired to carry on. However, you do not have to live with this result

You can counteract the effects of gravity and aging on the body and achieve your ideal posture with a stretching program that balances muscular irregularities.