Armstrong Athletic Bodywork

11/09/2025

11/07/2025

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11/06/2025

📍 Located in the heart of Lee, MA - right on Main Street for convenient access to recovery, resilience, and results.

🗓️ Treatments are scheduled by appointment to ensure focused, personalized care aligned with your athletic and recovery targets.

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11/06/2025

REST IS PRODUCTIVE.
Building rest and recovery into your routine is one of the most effective ways to show up stronger and stay consistent. 💪

Constantly pushing without proper recovery can lead to burnout, a drop in confidence, and frustrating setbacks. Prioritizing recovery keeps you energized, focused, and steadily making progress.

At Armstrong Athletic Bodywork, I’m here to support your recovery so you can feel and perform at your best - not just once or twice, but over the long term.

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11/05/2025

🏈🍁 Fall athletics are in full swing as the crisp air sweeps through The Berkshires! 🍂 While you've probably put plenty of thought into your sport or fitness routine… have you given much thought to your athletic recovery?

If you're building strength, struggling with an injury, experiencing pain, or pushing for peak performance, recovery is an essential part of every athlete's success. Yet it’s often overlooked, or never fully taught in the first place!

That’s where athletic bodywork comes in! From routine maintenance to focused relief from pain and injury, specialized bodywork helps you:
✅ Recover faster
✅ Improve flexibility, mobility, and agility
✅ Reduce pain
✅ Build confidence and resilience
✅ Bolster mental clarity
✅ Improve sleep and overall wellness
✅ Enhance performance

Do you see yourself as a committed teammate, a weekend warrior, a gym regular, or a growing student athlete? Are you just frustrated with nagging pain? Armstrong Athletic Bodywork offers customized treatments tailored to your unique targets.

🗓️ So are you ready to start feeling and performing your best? Book your restorative session today!
🎓Remember to take advantage of the Student Athlete Special and other ways to save on your bodywork treatments!

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11/04/2025

𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗱𝗼 𝗜 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗶𝗳 𝗶𝘁'𝘀 𝗳𝗮𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗮 𝗽𝗮𝗶𝗻?
Determining whether your pain is due to muscles, joints or fascia can be difficult. In general, muscle injuries and joint problems feel worse the more you move. Fascia adhesions tend to feel better with movement and also respond well to heat therapy, which helps bring back the tissue’s elasticity.

For some people, adhesions can worsen over time, causing the fascia to compress and contort the muscles it surrounds. This can result in hard, tender knots in the muscles, called trigger points. Myofascial pain syndrome is a condition in which those trigger points cause pain to occur:
* During movement
* When pressure is applied
* In seemingly unrelated parts of the body (referred pain)

𝗦𝗼, 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗳𝗮𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗮?
Fascia is the thin casing of connective tissue that surrounds and holds every organ, blood vessel, bone, nerve fiber and muscle in place. The tissue does more than provide internal structure; fascia has nerves that make it almost as sensitive as skin. When stressed, it tightens up.

Although fascia looks like one sheet of tissue, it’s actually made up of multiple layers with liquid in between called hyaluronan. It’s designed to stretch as you move. But there are certain things that cause fascia to thicken and become sticky. When it dries up and tightens around muscles, it can limit mobility and cause painful knots to develop.

Treatment focuses on relieving pain and getting tight fascia and muscle fibers to relax. Keeping your fascia healthy has many benefits, including ease of movement, better range of motion, and experiencing less pain.
In additional to athletic bodywork, you can help yourself by focusing on posture, movement, and regular stretching.

𝗔𝗿𝗺𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗴𝗠𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗮𝗴𝗲.𝗠𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗧𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗽𝘆.𝗰𝗼𝗺
Source: hopkinsmedicine.org, edited.

11/03/2025

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11/02/2025

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