Precise Touch

Precise touch is a focused, calculated, and systematic hands-on approach used to provide targeted pain relief. It requires a working knowledge of anatomy and physiology, an in-depth understanding of the elements and principles of massage, and the ability to adapt to your needs.

Attention to Detail

Precise touch is the application of focused, calculated, and purposeful soft tissue manipulation. It interconnects palception, tactile dialogue, and the elements of touch to help redraw your somatosensory map, improve your mind-body awareness, and develop your somatic vocabulary.

It requires exceptional attention to detail, the ability to exist in the moment, and to derive joy from another person’s peace.

As a detail-focused application of touch, it combines clinical precision with pampering to promote comfort, evoke pleasurable sensations, and establish patterns of safety.

Precise Touch

Precise touch uses techniques that feel good and help the brain anticipate safety by applying them in a patterned way. This is accomplished through micro-formulas and seamless transitions.

The approach accounts for the brain’s love-hate relationship with repetition by using the rule of three and variety, in conjunction with a working understanding of the PAP Threshold.

Skin Hydration

Precise Touch uses a cornucopia of oils, creams, lotions, and butters to moisturize and foster a robust tactile sensory experience during your massage.

Precise touch also accounts for skin hydration level. Adequate skin hydration increases tactile sensitivity and mechanical friction, which affect how mechanoreceptors detect texture, vibration, and pressure.

Too little or too much moisture influences how touch feels during a massage. When skin is dry, stiff, and dehydrated, it sends less afferent information to the spinal cord, potentially resulting in numbness in that area. Extreme dryness may increase nociceptive sensitivity, which, when combined with other factors, may elevate central sensitization or lead to allodynia.

However, excessive moisture causes skin maceration, where your fingers start to look like the surface of a prune. Maceration can also reduce sensitivity, as excess hydration degrades skin cells.