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Every session at Cassatone is tailored to your body and your goals. Explore the types of massage offered below to find the right fit for what you’re feeling.
Therapeutic & Medical Massage
Targeted therapeutic and medical massage designed to relieve pain, reduce muscle tension, and improve mobility. Each session focuses on specific problem areas using customized, results-driven techniques.
Work starts with a conversation about what hurts, how long it has been going on, and what makes it worse — then the session is planned around that, rather than following a fixed routine. Techniques include trigger point therapy for hyperirritable spots, myofascial release to free restricted tissue, and assisted stretching to restore range of motion. Pressure is matched to your tolerance and adjusted as the tissue responds.
This is the right starting point for chronic neck and shoulder pain, low back tightness, repetitive strain from desk work, and old injuries that never fully settled. It is also a good fit if you have been told to just stretch more and would rather have hands-on work that addresses the cause instead of the symptom.
Medical massage therapy in Piscataway, NJ — for people who want a measurable change in how their body feels and moves.
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Deep Tissue Massage
Deep tissue massage that focuses on relieving chronic muscle tension and tightness. Firm, focused pressure works into the deeper muscle layers to release knots and restore easier movement.
Deep tissue differs from a relaxation massage in intent. Instead of long gliding strokes across the whole body, the work concentrates on a few areas and stays there — slow, sustained pressure across the muscle fibers until the tissue releases. Common targets are the upper back and shoulders, the muscles around the shoulder blades, the hips, and the low back.
Deep does not mean painful. Effective pressure sits at the edge of comfortable, where you can still breathe normally. Frankie checks in as the work progresses and adjusts — more pressure is not automatically better, and tissue that is guarding will not release.
A strong option for long-term tension relief, desk-job stiffness, and recovery between training blocks. Deep tissue massage in Piscataway, NJ, for tension that has been building for months rather than days.
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Sports Massage
Sports massage focused on muscle recovery, injury prevention, and performance support. Targets overworked muscles and improves flexibility, mobility, and circulation.
The approach changes with your calendar. Before an event, the work is brisker and shorter — warming tissue and opening up range of motion without leaving you flat. After an event or a hard training block, it is slower and more restorative, working through the muscle groups that took the load. Between events is where the most useful work happens: addressing the tight spots and imbalances that turn into injuries when they are left alone.
Sessions commonly cover calves and hamstrings for runners, shoulders and lats for swimmers and lifters, hips and IT band for cyclists, and forearms for racquet sports. Assisted stretching is usually part of the work.
You do not need to compete to benefit. If you train regularly, lift, run, or play a weekend sport, sports massage in Piscataway, NJ, helps you recover faster and stay in the rotation.
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More Types of Massages
Swedish Massage
Relaxing Swedish massage designed to reduce stress and promote full-body relaxation. Gentle, flowing techniques help improve circulation and ease everyday muscle tension.
Swedish is the classic full-body massage — long gliding strokes, kneading, and a steady, unhurried rhythm that moves through the back, shoulders, arms, legs, and neck. Pressure stays light to moderate throughout. The goal is not to chase one problem area but to let the nervous system settle.
It is the right choice when you are not injured and not in pain, but you are wound tight: sleeping badly, carrying stress in your shoulders, or simply overdue for an hour where nothing is asked of you.
Swedish also works well as a first massage if you have never had one, and it pairs naturally with deeper work — deep tissue when something hurts, Swedish when it doesn’t.
Swedish massage in Piscataway, NJ — a straightforward reset for stress, sleep, and everyday tension.
Chair Massage
Convenient chair massage for quick relief from neck, shoulder, and back tension. Performed fully clothed, with no oil and no table.
You sit forward in a supportive massage chair with your face and chest cushioned, which opens up the upper back and lets the work reach the muscles along the spine, across the shoulders, and up into the neck — exactly where phone and keyboard tension collects. Sessions are short and focused on those areas rather than working the whole body.
Chair massage suits anyone who wants targeted relief without the time or the undressing of a full table session: a break in the middle of a workday, a stiff neck that has been building all week, or a first experience of massage for someone not yet comfortable on a table.
Chair massage in Piscataway, NJ — fast, focused, and easy to fit into a real schedule.
Shiatsu Massage
Shiatsu massage using focused finger and palm pressure along the body’s pressure points. Helps release tension, restore balance, and calm the nervous system.
Shiatsu comes from Japanese bodywork and works differently from Western massage. There is no oil and no gliding. Pressure is applied and held at specific points along the body, then released, moving through a deliberate sequence. You stay fully clothed, and the work includes gentle joint mobilization and stretching alongside the pressure.
Because the pace is slow and the pressure is static rather than sliding, many people find shiatsu calming in a way that a brisker massage is not. It is a good option for stress that shows up as stiffness — a clenched jaw, tight hips, shoulders that sit up near your ears.
Shiatsu is also worth trying if deep tissue has felt like too much, or if you would rather not undress for a session.
Shiatsu massage in Piscataway, NJ — a grounding, fully clothed alternative to table massage.