Why Schafer's Massage Therapy?
Robin Ann Schafer's Advanced Massage Therapy System is a research-based and outcome-based system. Schafer has spent over 23 years researching, teaching, and exploring the applications of massage therapy. The techniques and methods she uses are a combination of proven and cutting-edge approaches to treating pain, injury and other conditions with massage therapy. What began has a hobby in 1974 turned into her life's work. Schafer uses the term advanced neuromuscular orthopedic medical massage to refer to a locomotorized system philosophy. It is used in conservative medicine. An analogy can be made with the phrase 'orthopedic medicine', which describes a conceptual approach to medical massage therapy practice. In the same way the phrase orthopedic medical massage is a particular approach with a comprehensive system - rather than prescribed techniques or modalities. Massage therapy clients experience liberations and freedom of adhesions following treatment sessions. Each client's problem is unique. Being able to 'think outside the medical box', skillful analysis of the client's problems and following her intuition, along with her pottery and sculpture degree 'form follows function, and function follows structure' results in more successful therapy sessions and happier clients.

Primary Components of Schafer's Massage Therapy Sessions
Soft Tissue Assessment for Adhesions
Matching the Physiology of Injury with Physiological Effects of Treatment
Treatment Adaptability
Understanding the Rehabilitation Protocol

Medical massage therapy enables this practitioner to choose the most effective treatment for a client's particular pain or condition. This medical massage practitioner is knowledgeable and skilled in her understanding of pain and injury conditions and massage treatment techniques. She is a skillful critical thinker. This combination of practical expertise provides for the most effective treatment of soft tissue pain and injury conditions using a wide variety of specialized medical massage therapy techniques. Treatment includes the structures that are at greatest risk, trigger point formation in post-injury syndrome, post-surgery syndrome, post-scar tissue syndrome, amputees, burns, and fractures.

The office has developed a reputation for relieving pain when other methods of treatment have failed. Schafer utilizes methods developed by top practitioners nationally and internationally. Explore this site to find out why Advanced Neuromuscular Therapies, Inc. is different and what Schafer can do for your family, you or someone you love for a host of other chronic and acute pain symptoms. The office has successfully treated soft tissue manipulation and mobilization technique protocols for complex conditions that prevail such as:

Sciatica
Migraine Headaches
Low Back Pain
Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
Frozen Shoulder Syndrome
Posterior Cervical Region Pain
Posterior Thorax Back Pain
Acceleration-Deceleration Injuries, or 'Whiplash Syndrome'
Internal Thoracic Soft Tissue Damage
Shoulder Injuries
Seat Belt Injuries
TMJ Incidents
Torsion Patterns
Knee Injuries
Brain Tissue Insults
Hand
Ankle
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Fibromyalgia
Hip Pain
Neck Pain
TMJ dysfunction
Disc Herniations
Hand Injuries
Scapular Winging