NMT is a highly specialized form of medical massage therapy that uses treatment protocols to identify and release trigger points in muscle and tendon that cause pain and dysfunction in the body. Neuromuscular Therapy is a very effective and efficient pain management approach that relies on treatment precision. While we utilize hard pressure to release the trigger points in the majority of sessions, we always make sure we’re working within your pain tolerance — on the notorious “1 out of 10 pain scale,” we ask that if you experience anything higher than a 7, you let us know and we’ll reduce our pressure. Your tissue will tense up in response to the pain if it hits the 8,9, or 10 mark, which is counterintuitive to the treatment. Because we are directly treating these places for the first time, the initial session will always be the most severe; however, acute pain during your session is not our purpose! We respectfully request that you speak up rather than grit your teeth and suffer it – We don’t believe in “no pain, no gain”!