Meet your Therapist

Karla Carroll

My name is Karla Carroll. I am the new massage therapist at Woodall’s Fitness Studio and I am very excited. After graduating high school, I went straight to Johnston Community College and applied for the Therapeutic Massage Program. I graduated last spring and I am licensed by the state of North Carolina.

Massage is a passion and I believe that it is the perfect career pathway for me. Massage helps me understand people and the obstacles they face daily. As a therapist, I take pride in knowing that I can help others through my hands.

My goal as your massage therapist is to relieve you of any problems you may be experiencing as well as educating you to be more in tune with your body. Massage is very beneficial for all aspects of daily living. So, schedule an appointment weekly or monthly and see how you can benefit from massage therapy.

I look forward to working with you here at Woodall’s Fitness Studio!!!

• Stress: Massage is one of the best known antidotes for stress. Reducing stress gives you more energy, improves your outlook on life and in the process, reduces your chances of injury and illness.
• Painful or Tight Muscles: Massage can relieve many types of muscle tightness, from a short-term muscle cramp to a habitually clenched jaw or tight shoulders. Some massage techniques release tension directly by stretching and kneading your muscles and their connective tissue coverings.
• Delayed muscle soreness: After vigorous exercise, buildup of waste products as well as micro-traumas in your muscles can leave you feeling tired and sore. Massage increases circulation, which removes waste products and brings in nutrients to speed healing of muscle tissue.
• Pain or tingling in your arms and legs: Muscles can become so cotnracted that they press on nerves to the arms, hands, and legs, causing pain or tingling. If this happens a massage to release muscle spasms in the choulder or hip can bring relief.
• Injuries: Massage can help heal injuries such as tendonitis that develop over time, as well as ligament sprains or muscle straines caused by an accident. Massage reduces inflammation by increasing circulation, which removes waste products and brings nutrition to injured cells.
• secondary pain: Massage can relieve secondary pain that outlasts its original cause. Some examples are headaches from eyestrain, low back ache during pregnancy or the protective tensing of healthy muscles around an injury.
• Prevention of new injuries: By relieving chronic tension, massage can help prevent injuries that might be casued by stressing unbalanced muscle groups, or by favoring or forcing a painful, restricted area.
• Pain or restriction in joints: Besides releasing tight muscles that restrict joint movement, massage works directly on your joints to improve circulation, stimulate production fo natural lubrication, and relieve pain from conditions such as osteoarthritis
• The effects of forced inactivity: There are many reasons you may be forced to limit physical activity including injury, surgery, apralysis or even normal againg. When this happens, massage can relieve your aches and pains and improve circulation to your skin and muscles. even when an immobilized area cannot be massaged directly, the relaxation and increased circulation from a general massage can give you relief.
• Fluid retention: Massage increases your circulation which in turn drains tissues of excess fluid caused by recent injury, surgery, or pregnancy.

 
Please contact WFT to see how Massage Therapy can benefit you!