ABOUT
Fascial Stretch Therapy is a science-based therapeutic modality to help you move better, feel better, and perform better.
C9S specializes in integrating customized Fascial Stretch Therapy programming into your current wellness routine.
PHILOSOPHY
When we return to our body's natural state of harmony, we are able to live, move, and flow freely - absent of pain, restrictions and compensations. Our therapists empower clients to find this balance and harmony within, and to experience individual wholeness - physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually.
It is only then that we may raise our collective frequency.
It’s more than just a stretch.
- Melanie Buelow, Founder
SERVICES
FASCIAL STRETCH THERAPY (FST)
FST is appropriate for all ages and levels of fitness. Each intake session begins with a consultation and assessment with your qualified therapist to best determine your specific programming needs. We offer the following:
ATHLETIC
For the individual who is vigorously engaged in activities and seeking to optimize performance and longevity through increased mobility and decreased recovery time.
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ATHLETIC BENEFITS:
• Improve mobility
• Improve flexibility
• Improve range of motion
• Improve neuromuscular function
• Increase speed
• Increase focus
• Optimize performance
• Improved recovery from activity
• Prepare for training or event
• Improve and help prevent injuries
caused by tight or unbalanced soft
tissue such as plantar fasciitis, shin
splints, tennis and golfer's elbow,
muscle sprains, etc.
RESTORATIVE
Ideal for the individual who is overwhelmed and seeking rejuvenation and tranquility through gentle movements, breath work, and a calming environment.
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RESTORATIVE BENEFITS:
• Increase tranquility
• Increase calm
• Decrease stress and anxiety
• Decrease tension and PTS
• Improve circulation
• Improve quality of sleep
• Relax into the parasympathetic nervous system
• A regenerative “working in” modality (vs.
catabolic working-out)
• Feel lighter, younger, & more energetic
• Improve breath and body awareness
• Improve relationship to self and others
CORRECTIVE
This program is for the individual with specific soft tissue imbalances or areas of pain that require targeted work.
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CORRECTIVE BENEFITS:
• Decrease pain
• Improve posture
• Recover from and help prevent injuries
• Recover from or prepare for surgery
• Decrease compression and pinching of
nerves and joints
• Improve neuromuscular function
• Balance length tension relationships
• Improve and help prevent
(re)occurance of injuries caused by
soft tissue imbalance such as frozen
shoulder, plantar fasciitis, thoracic
outlet syndrome and Osgood-Schlatter
disease
• Improve symptoms of Parkinson's, MS,
fibromyalgia, RA, and others
*PREMIUM ADD-ONS:
• Double it up with a second therapist for an unforgettable stretch and relaxation experience
• Share the stretch experience with a family member or friend with a tandem session
NEUROMUSCULAR
FUNCTION & FLOW (NMFF)
Our unique Function & Flow program is a specialized modality for assessing and correcting structural, neuromuscular, and energetic imbalances in the body. We use muscle response testing to find where the problem is and correct it to restore balance to the client, so they can function efficiently and without pain
Ideal for the individual looking to restore energetic balance and alignment of the mind, body, and soul.
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CHAKRA ALIGNMENT
CHAKRA ALIGNMENT
This program helps our clients restore their natural state of mind-body-soul harmony, so that they will live, move, and flow freely, absent of pain, restrictions, and compensation.
This approach involves identifying and shifting "stuck" movement patterns, thoughts, and emotions in the body, to improve the flow of frequencies through its energy centers. This locating and removing of resistance, and arrival at energetic flow, often results in the clients most balanced state of mind-body-soul being, moving, and becoming.
STRUCTURAL BALANCING
This program allows the body to restore its optimal neuromuscular function to improve movement patterns and postural alignment.
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STRUCTURAL BALANCING
Utilizing methods from the family of applied kinesiology, our unique structural balancing program is for clients all abilities to improve their neuromuscular function, movement patterns, range of motion, strength, power, and focus.
MASSAGE THERAPY
A manual therapy modality to detoxify the body, help recovery, optimize performance, and maximize health.
We offer the following types of massage:
DEEP TISSUE
Deep tissue massage focuses on adhesion breakup to increase range of motion and relieve pain due to knotted tissue.
SWEDISH
These sessions allow clients to relax into the parasympathetic nervous system, resulting in a calmer mind and reduced tension throughout the body.
SPORTS
Sessions maximize athletic performance by increasing elasticity, speeding up recovery, and restoring balance to soft tissue. Each session is followed by deep inner core stabilization.
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MASSAGE THERAPY BENEFITS
• Reduce pain
• Reduce stress
• Increase immunity by stimulating lymph flow
• Increase flexibility
• Alleviate symptoms of depression and anxiety
• Relieve migraine symptoms
• Relieve muscle tension
CORRECTIVE EXERCISE
A personalized program combining elements of time, focus, and discipline to improve core strength, functional movement, and postural alignment. Consultation and assessment mandatory.
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CORRECTIVE EXERCISE
C.H.E.K based training for improved core strength, functional movement, and postural alignment.
This program is ideal for clients who want to invoke change in their bodies and life, but need flexibility.
We will work in tandem with each client to design the guidelines needed to materialize desired goals.
Consultation and assessment are mandatory.
CUSTOMIZED PROGRAM
After a consultation and evaluation, our team will determine the most effective strategies to address your current challenges, and create a plan of action specific to your needs.
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CUSTOMIZED PROGRAM
Drawing from our collective expertise, we will design a program specific to your needs that may include:
C.H.E.K training for improved core strength, functional movement, and postural alignment, Neuromuscular Flow and Function for complete energetic and structural balancing, FST for increased relaxation, flexibility, and range of motion, and Massage Therapy to reduce trigger points and detoxify the body.
MEET THE TEAM
CERTIFICATIONS INCLUDE:
Certified Fascial Stretch Therapy, Level 2 & Level 3 Fitness (CFST L2 & CFSS L3), est. 2011
Licensed Massage Therapy (LMT), est. 2011
Healing Mastery Practitioner, Level 3
VOILA Method of Structural Joint Balancing, L2.5
C.H.E.K (Corrective Holistic Exercise Kinesiology) Exercise Coach
Holistic Lifestyle Coach, C.H.E.K
Youth Exercise Specialist, NASM
Laynee Restorative Breathing, Level 1
NSCA certification
NASM certification
Melanie Buelow
Founder, Co-Director
Jack DaSilva
Co-Director
Alan Kielian
Michael Kinon
OUR EXTENDED TEAM:
"For myself and my patients I find Fascial Stretch Therapy an invaluable modality for general health, rehabilitation and performance enhancement. Mel provides the highest level of this modality.”
— Gerard A. Malanga, MD,
Founder of New Jersey Regenerative Institute, Clinical Professor of PM&R, Rutgers School of Medicine
COMPLETE FORM FOR FREE
PHONE CONSULTATION
580 Main Street, Chatham, NJ 07928
mel@cloud9stretch.com \\ Tel: 856-938-6499