Our bodywork can help promote:

Relaxation & Stress Reduction
Improved Mobility & Pain Relief
Physical Healing
Increased Energy
Improved Circulation
​Rebalancing of Mind, Body and Spirit

Preventative & Lifestyle Massage

Lifestyle massage can be wonderfully revitalizing and healing. The intention of a wellness massage is to care for you regularly as a preventative treatment, maintenance therapy or to improve how you feel in your body. Any of the ailments that are treated as medical massage can and are treated during a scheduled wellness or lifestyle massage with the exception to billing medical insurance. General aches, pains, and chronic conditions are addressed with wellness massage. 
Medical insurance does not cover wellness or lifestyle massage therapy (ie Maintenance/chronic symptoms).

60m   $135
90m   $185

Medical Massage - What is it?

I am not a network provider for medical insurances. 
Medical massage is intended for treatment to an area(s) of the body which is causing functional limitations and discomfort that prevents you from performing typical tasks or activities in your personal life (i.e. washing, dressing, sitting, working, driving, sleeping etc). Often, when seeking medical massage care a client may request that our office bill their heath insurance to utilize their massage benefits. When billing medical insurance, certain criteria must be met in order for the medical claim to be considered "medically necessary" by your health insurance company. You must have a prescription from either a Primary Care Physician, Chiropractor or Naturopath with a valid diagnostic code, recommendation of treatment frequency and duration (ex: 1x/wk for 6 weeks), with an expiration date.

What does "Medically Necessary" Mean? 
The term "Medically Necessary" is an evasive and subjective concept. What might be considered of medical concern to an individual may not necessarily align with the definition of most major health insurance companies. While we at Talking Tree recognize the following definition may not resonate with your personal understanding of health and body, and is does not fully reflect the human experience, when billing for reimbursement purposes, the following definition is how  billing options are determined:

"Massage therapy is a covered benefit only when it is diagnosed and prescribed by a physician or referring provider (such as a Chiropractor) to treat a covered medical condition."
                                                                                               
​ -Premera Blue Cross Blue Shield Association


​Insurance companies DO NOT cover maintenance or chronic conditions.

What Does "Maintenance" or "Chronic" Mean?
Maintenance massage may be considered appropriate in the absence of acute symptoms of pain or discomfort, injury or treatable heath concern. If you do not feel it is necessary to receive massage treatment on a weekly or bi-weekly basis, it may be more appropriate to request a Lifestyle Massage.
Most people receive maintenance or lifestyle massage once every 3-4 weeks or with less frequency. (If you are unsure whether this definition resonates most with your health goals, email us with questions!)

​Chronic conditions are often lifestyle related in nature and by definition are non acute, ongoing symptoms of discomfort, pain or postural deviation. For example, neck pain associated with work related activities, a sedentary lifestyle or generalized discomfort are considered to be chronic conditions that are non-curative according to heath insurance companies, and therefore are not billable through insurances (regardless of whether your doctor has prescribed massage). 
​You can still benefit from receiving massage for these conditions, we just cannot bill  insurance