For the person doing the lifting, in Citrus County
If you're looking after somebody, you already know what it has done to your back. You have probably also worked out that you can't get away for two hours to do anything about it.
Never had a massage? Read this first.
You don't have to leave for long
Once you are an established client I can come to your house, and caregivers are the people that suits best, because you stay where you are needed. If you have to get up in the middle of the hour, you get up, and we carry on when you're back. An hour at the Inverness studio is $79 and ninety minutes is $109. At your house it is $125 and $149.
What looking after someone does to a back
Low backs and shoulders and necks and forearms, mostly. It comes from transfers, from leaning over a bed that sits at the wrong height, from carrying, and from never quite putting anything down. It's a particular pattern and I see it often enough to find it quickly.
If I'm already coming to the house
Say so when you call. If I am already there for the person you look after, we can work out whether the timing suits you too, and I will tell you what it comes to before anything is booked.
How it goes, for this
Before
You don't have to arrange cover
Once we have met, I come to the house and you stay in it. If you need to stop and go to them, we stop.
The hour
Backs, shoulders, forearms
The transfer pattern. I see it often enough to find it quickly, so less of your hour goes on looking for it.
After
You are already at home
On the kind of week you're having, that is most of the point.
Can't get onto a massage table? Pick what you have, and I'll tell you how it works.
I can get on a massage table
Then that's what we'll use. At the studio it is set up and ready before you walk in. At home, for my regulars, it goes up and comes down again inside the hour, and there's nothing for you to arrange.
Only my own bed
That's fine, and it's common. I work alongside the bed and set the positioning to suit you, with pillows under the knees or side-lying if lying flat is not comfortable. A hospital bed makes my job easier.
My recliner
Good. Neck, shoulders, arms, hands, feet and lower legs all work well in a recliner, and for a lot of people that's where the pain is.
I use a wheelchair
We can work in the chair, or move to a bed or table if you transfer easily and want to. Tell me which on the phone and I'll bring what suits.
A kitchen chair is all I have
That is all I need. I bring a seated setup, you stay fully clothed, and it's the same work through your neck, your shoulders, your back.
I am asking on behalf of someone else
Call me and skip the booking page, because I'll want to know what they can and can't do, whether there is a hospital bed, and who will be there. If they have a guardian, a healthcare surrogate or a power of attorney, tell me who holds it. You're welcome to stay in the room the whole time.
If you're still not sure, call me and describe the room. It takes two minutes and costs nothing.
Questions
I can't be away from them for an hour.
You do not have to be. Once we have met, I come to the house and you stay in it. If you need to stop and go to them, we stop, and we pick it up again when you sit back down.
Can you see both of us on the same visit?
Call me and we'll work out whether the timing suits and what it comes to. In-home visits are $125 for an hour and $149 for ninety minutes, and I will give you the figure for two of you on the phone so you are not guessing.
I have never had a massage before.
Then tell me that at the start. You keep on whatever clothing you want to keep on, you can stop at any point without giving me a reason, and nothing happens that we have not talked about first.