Andrew Embleton is a massage therapist with a vast amount of experience and expertise. Andrew graduated in 1986 from Ryerson Polytechnical Institute in Toronto with a Bachelor of Applied Arts. After working for a few years, Andrew decided to make a career change and graduated from the Canadian College of Massage and Hydrotherapy in 1993.
Immediately upon graduating, Andrew set up his own massage clinic in Hamilton, and worked in this clinic part time until 1999. Andrew joined the Momentum Healing Arts Centre in 1994 and has been an integral part of our health care team since that time. As the Outreach co-ordinator for the Massage Therapy schools in Hamilton, Andrew has brought lots of practical experience to the Clinic with treatment of sports injuries.
Besides putting in almost a full time week at the Momentum Healing Arts Centre, Andrew is a director and principal instructor in anatomy and massage technique at the Everest College in the Hamilton area. Andrew has lectured on pregnancy and infant massage, and presently teaches treatments in advanced and general massage techniques at the College.
With so many years of clinical massage therapy experience, Andrew uses the following massage techniques:
- Swedish Massage
- Hydrotherapy applications
- Trigger Point Therapy
- Joint Play mobilization
- Fascial and Myofascial release techniques
- Muscle Approximation
- Sports Massage Techniques
- Pregnancy and Infant Massage
- Geriatric Massage