RAPID is an active manual therapy technique that addresses tension, restrictions and reduced range of motion in the body. It can eliminate pain quickly and efficiently.

Acute / chronic conditions ​Back pain Bunions / arthritic joints Bursitis / Baker's cysts Carpal tunnel syndrome Frozen shoulder Headaches / migraines Hip issues Knee problems Neurological hypersensitivity Nerve pain Plantar fasciitis Scars Sciatica / piriformis syndrome Shin splints Shoulder pain Sprains Tennis/Golfers elbow TMJ disorder Whiplash

RAPID is a strong and deep touch. It is ALWAYS done with communication between Jackie and the client and always within the client's personal limits of tolerance. ​

Jackie uses a massage table for her sessions. The client remains clothed for the session and no oils or lotions are used. ​ The session is a combination of hands on touch and examination, often clients will be asked to perform movements that are painful or difficult for them to do so that Jackie can determine the best areas to work on. In the session clients will be asked to perform easy movements while the technique is being applied.

A biopsychosocial perspective is used to help the body's perception of threat and danger to be addressed. Once these perceptions shift, by bringing the brain back to a place of safety most painful conditions and range of motion issues disappear. ​ Through strong touch and movement, RAPID communicates with your nervous and connective tissue systems to create lasting pain relief for most people.

RAPID was named because it is a quick acting technique. Most sessions are thirty minutes in length and this usually allows us to address two or three issues. Shorter sessions are also better as they don't overwhelm your nervous system with too much information to process.

Typically weekly appointments work well for most people. RAPID can be done every two days (at most) so for some people two sessions a week are ideal because they are traveling, live farther away or are just really motivated to get their pain and ROM (range of motion) addressed quickly so they can get back to their everyday life. ​ The time in between sessions also gives your brain a chance to "catch up" from the work Jackie did with you and time to see the differences.

Here at Hudson Valley RAPID we are focused on getting you feeling and moving better, not on building advertising campaigns and discount programs. Most people only need a short series of RAPID sessions to be feeling good and getting back to regular life, it isn't like typical body work where you go weekly / monthly for the rest of your life. ​ We do however offer a 15% discount for referrals, when people book with us we ask how they found us, and if they put your name there, we will have a note in our system that you have a 15% discount waiting for you for the next time you need to see Jackie.

Well, the short answer is, Jackie is a recovering workaholic and has a bit of a bleeding heart, so this fee is put in place to make sure she doesn't work sixty plus hour work weeks, and has enough time for self care and living a fun life too.

Work life balance is something Jackie is REALLY trying to establish and keep in her life. Being open late one night a week allows people with their own tight schedules a bit more flexibility schedule wise. Hudson Valley RAPID is a one lady show, which means Jackie wears a lot of different hats, and her schedule allows her more time to keep up with all the demands behind the scenes that running a business entails, as well as making time for fun and all the regular adulting chores too. ​

One of the reasons RAPID works is it causes your body to release substance P. Substance P is a big contributor of healing within your body. A regular massage will flush out the substance P that was released by your body during the RAPID session and make the session much less beneficial. It is ideal to wait 24-48 hours after a RAPID session before having a regular massage.

If you are going for regular Massage Therapy and physical therapy and acupuncture and and and...you won't know what is and is not working well for you. It also gives your brain a lot of data inputs to organize and respond to. Many treatments (including RAPID) will continue to have healing benefits a day or two (and possibly longer) after your session. If you are having multiple sessions a week from multiple modalities it's much harder to tell what is helping (or helping the most). We suggest receiving 3 RAPID sessions (one or two per week) without another modality to see if RAPID is helping you more than other modalities you are going for, or want to try. This is ultimately for your benefit, to help you spend less time and money on multiple sessions and modalities and know what is helping you the greatest so you can get well and back to your life faster.

There is no rest in RAPID. After your session you should do a minimum of fifteen to thirty minutes of exercise / movement to help flush your body of waste products accumulated in the soft tissues and to integrate the session into your body. Please choose exercise and or movement you are accustomed to, and do it mindfully. This isn't the time to push for a new personal record, it is a time to listen to your body and help it integrate the RAPID session. If you leave your RAPID appointment and do not get the movement in, you will likely feel a lot worse the next day and possibly longer because all of the cellular waste products in your body that were released during the session are now stuck.

Drink plenty of water to help hydrate your cells and continue the flush out of waste products that the session releases from your soft tissues. Water is essential for most bodily functions, lubricates your connective tissues (fascia, joints, movements of muscles over each other inside your body, it can help with focus and mental clarity and keeps you from getting dehydrated.

You will likely be sore for one to five days after your session. The more movement you do, especially in the sore areas, and the more water you drink, the faster the soreness (called DOMS - Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness) will flush out of your body. DOMS occurs from the inflammatory response RAPID is creating in your body. The inflammatory response is your immune system coming in and flushing out accumulated cellular waste as well as bringing in nutrients and specialized cells to promote healing in your body.

Sometimes it gets worse before it gets better. The majority of people will feel much better after their session and experience a bit of DOMS. Occasionally people sometimes have a flare up of their symptoms, or experience different symptoms. As hard as it may be to believe, this is actually a good sign! It means that your brain is reconnecting with parts of your body that it may not focus on as much in your day to day life. It also means that you likely have more cellular waste products in your body and they are all trying to get out at the same time, drinking water and getting movement and exercise will be the best thing for you to do.​

This one is a bit long winded, but I'll do my best to keep it short and concise. RICE - Rest Ice Compression Elevation was the gold standard for a long time, but studies have shown Rest and Ice in particular can slow down your healing or even hinder it. MEAT - Movement Exercise Analgesia Treatment and METH Movement Elevation Traction and Heat have started to gain popularity in today's world. Ice when applied to an area interrupts your body's natural healing process, which creates cellular waste (known as artifact) and can cause problems now, or down the road for you. The application of ice also causes neutrophils which are among the first cells to arrive when an injury occurs to leave the area for up to 12 hours, this means crucial healing cells aren't doing their job and are drastically delayed in arrival to the area. In RAPID we avoid ice, if you'd like to apply heat or a topical analgesic like arnica, tiger balm, Japanese mint oil etc. that's fine, these things will not slow down your body's natural healing processes or interrupt them. Movement helps to prevent adhesions, which can form when there is a lack of exercise / movement. Think about when you make spaghetti noodles, if you don't stir the noodles enough they stick together and don't cook properly. Your muscles and tendons all glide together, or at the very least glide over one another, the less movement you do, the more they start to stick together (like the spaghetti noodles) and become dysfunctional and problematic. Your brain is also really wired to pay attention to your whole body, when an area is injured or becomes immobilized, your brain can forget about this area as a survival and efficiency tool. Keeping your body moving (even just gently) helps to keep all areas "on" in your brain so it continues to see this area and supply it with nutrients etc.

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