Breast Recesses: Take your clients and your table beyond the ordinary!

An extraordinary advancement in positioning women comfortably, our exclusive Breast Recesses option does much more than relieve pressure on a client's breasts. With this option, the torso is positioned neutrally, the scapula are closer together and the muscles are shortened for easier access with less resistance. Profoundly increases comfort and treatment effectiveness. You'll find people coming back to you for this table experience!

 Ideal for clients with implants or broad shoulders, our Breast Recesses will greatly increase comfort during massage for both men and women of ALL shapes and sizes.

 Once therapists begin working with the plugs out, we find that they are rarely put back in. When you do choose put them in, they fit snugly and securely into your table. 

We offer the popular recesses as an option on most of our tables, both portable and stationary.

 Therapy-enhancing Positioning

 Breast Recesses (alias: Pectoral Recess/Scapular Access) will help:

 Increase client comfort:

 The Breast Recesses (BRs) were developed as part of a prenatal table because pregnant clients’ breast tissue was too sensitive. We discovered it wasn’t just expectant moms who needed accommodation, but that most every female client will appreciate this compression-free positioning. In addition to the relief for the breast tissue, BRs reduce the lordotic curve in the lumbar spine, thereby relieving pressure on the low back.

 Facilitate the relaxation response:

 When therapists are working the muscles of the upper back (with client in a prone position), breast tissue is compressed. This often leads to “guarding” or “holding” on the part of the client. Healing is facilitated when the client can “let go” and move from the sympathetic state to the parasympathetic, engaging the “relaxation response.”

 Shorten musculature for deeper access:

 When lying in the prone position on a flat table, clients’ breasts and pecs elevate the torso, the shoulders rotate anteriorally and the scapulae move laterally. This causes the rhomboid and trapezius muscles to be pulled more taut. In contrast, the BRs allow clients to “sink” into the table, inviting the shoulders to come back and the muscles of the upper back to shorten. These shortened muscles are more pliable and deeper layers are more accessible.

 Reduce therapist fatigue:

 Working on shortened muscles requires less expenditure of energy and allows the muscles to respond more readily. Likewise, clients who can “let go” more and who sense the release of the low back, are more receptive to a treatment. Any residual tension in the clients become part of the therapist’s experience, and so releasing the clients’ tension also serves the therapist. As the therapist finds the work easier, clients also benefit from the reduction of strain.

 Enhance assessment:

 The BRs allow the vertebral spine to remain neutral while the client is lying on the table. This gives the therapist an outstanding technical advantage as this positioning helps reveal the body's inherent rhythms as well as its stress patterns. Because the rib cage is not constricted (and the scapulae “freed” in the supine position,) the chest is able to open, the muscles are more relaxed and it becomes easier to discern local areas of inhibition within the larger structural pattern.

 Increase scapular, occipital and neck access in supine position:

 The breast/pec recess in the prone position becomes a scapular recess in the supine position. The scapulae “float” rather that being compressed up into the upper torso. The pecs open up. Shoulder mobilization is uninhibited. The rhomboids/subscapularis can be worked without the client’s weight compressing therapist’s fingertips. The neck/occipitals are readily accessible and easily worked without the therapist bending the wrist.