Frequently Asked Questions
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Sessions are scheduled Monday- Friday. You can schedule online here.
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Owen: New clients: 90 minutes @ $199. Follow-up sessions, 75 minutes @ $185.
Emily: 75 mins @ $150.
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We are at a convenient Chapel Hill location in Southern Village. Please see our Contact page for more information.
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In short, it is often significantly more effective at making permanent changes. Read more about the difference here.
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We don’t bill insurance, but we can provide you with a receipt for self-filing if your insurance offers coverage for massage therapy. Most insurers do not offer this coverage. Please see our rates page for more information.
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We prefer to do a standing postural evaluation prior to working with you. The purpose for this is to get a sense of how gravity affects the vertical alignment of your structure and tone of your soft tissues. It is most helpful for this evaluation to be done with you dressed in your underwear. Loose fitting athletic shorts and a sports bra or a two piece bathing suit (as made appropriate by gender, obviously) are also OK. If imagining this makes you feel anxious, please know this feeling is more common than you might expect. We are very sensitive to body image issues most people have. Assessments are in no way used to judge or criticize. This evaluation gives an important layer of information, which helps tremendously to inform treatment strategies. If, however, being evaluated in this fashion is for any reason problematic for you, it is not obligatory.
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Misconceptions about what Myofascial Release have led to many believing it’s painful by definition. What comes up in a Google search of Myofascial Release perpetuates this myth. Myofascial Release as practiced at Triangle Body Therapy covers the whole spectrum of touch from direct and bone deep to extremely mild and subtle manipulation of your body’s energy systems. Most treatment is somewhere in between. It often feels like mild, passive stretching of your body’s known and unknown tight places, like you’re on a customized, therapeutic rack. At times this is mildly uncomfortable, but usually not much more than that. If treatment is painful, it’s most commonly of the “that hurts so good” variety you can tell you obviously need.
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Sometimes hands-on work will begin with you in a seated position. The majority of your session will be spent lying down on a comfortable treatment table in a quiet, clean, professional office environment.
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Results of treatment vary with each individual, but generally goals are reached with four to twelve weeks of treatment, ideally with one to two sessions each week. Chronic and more severe conditions will require greater frequency and increased length of treatment. While permanent changes do occur with each treatment, your fascial restrictions never completely release all at once. Resolving their influence is a cumulative process that happens over time.
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No, each session is unique and tailored to your particular needs.
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A lifetime of chronic issues can be avoided when addressed early on. Babies often come out of the womb with structural imbalances that correct very easily when treated early. Many think a few skilled sessions shortly after birth can help correct what otherwise develop into a lifetime of chronic issues. We have found over the years that most older children have a lot of myofascial imbalance from their rough and tumble lifestyles as well. So, yes, it’s ideal to have your children treated! While Owen stays focused on treating adults, Emily loves working with kids.
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Myofascial Release has been developed over the past several decades by world reknown physical therapist John Barnes. Owen and Emily have both trained directly with John and his staff at various locations across the US.