Synapse Health & Fitness

Massage Therapy

Massage therapy is a targeted approach to improving muscle health, flexibility, and recovery. At Synapse Health & Fitness, massage treatments are tailored to support your personal fitness and rehabilitation journey, offering a range of treatment lengths and styles. Whether you’re training to enhance athletic performance or recovering from an injury, our approach releases tension, reduces pain, ... Read More

Massage therapy is a targeted approach to improving muscle health, flexibility, and recovery. At Synapse Health & Fitness, massage treatments are tailored to support your personal fitness and rehabilitation journey, offering a range of treatment lengths and styles. Whether you’re training to enhance athletic performance or recovering from an injury, our approach releases tension, reduces pain, and restores balance—helping you move better and heal faster. With a focus on functional movement and collaboration with trainers, massage therapy plays a key role in building a resilient body, primed for both performance and recovery.

Sam’s passion for movement developed with her involvement in competitive athletics from a very young age. Through her own personal limitations with chronic knee pain and in continuing her education, Sam has been focusing on movement optimization through increasing mobility. She loves working with education on joint health and longevity, along with controlling ones body in a safe and painless manner are her primary goals for her clients.

Sam’s passion for movement developed with her involvement in competitive athletics from a very yo... Read More

Rachel is a graduate of the 2200hr Massage Therapy Program at Mount Royal University and a double certified yoga instructor with a passion for enhancing athletic performance, injury prevention and education. Since graduating, she has obtained certifications in Evidence Informed Clinical Cupping, FMT Advanced Kinesiology Taping, FMT Blades Advanced Instrument Assisted Soft Tissue Mobilization and Percussive Therapy.

As a young athlete she grew up riding horses and competing in 3-day eventing, dressage and show jumping all over Ontario and Alberta. Her 10+ year riding career has helped her specialize in working with equestrian athletes using her knowledge to translate issues in the saddle into solutions on and off the table.

To achieve a whole human and client focused approach by employing the biopsychosocial model, she strives to create a collaborative environment with athletes and clients to develop a therapeutic massage treatment plan to optimize performance, recovery, and injury prevention. She also specializes in working with clients who have Hypermobility Syndrome and Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome.

She has learned that helping her clients reach their goals is one of the most rewarding parts of the job. Both on and off the table, she believes in empowering clients through honest communication, education, and movement.

Outside of the treatment room she can be found going to the gym, hiking in the warmer months, visiting her senior horse, reading, cooking, continuing her passion for learning, following her latest hyperfixation and spending time with friends and family.

Rachel is a graduate of the 2200hr Massage Therapy Program at Mount Royal University and a double... Read More

Pursuing his passion, Danny has graduated as a massage therapist from Mount Royal University. He’s registered with the College of Massage Therapist Association of Alberta and his mission includes helping patients minimize pain to reach their goals and maintain their active lifestyle.

Danny has treated a range of ailments from sports-related injuries and postural imbalances to chronic conditions and specific injuries including sprains, strains, tendinitis, headaches, low back or neck spasms. He performs a wide variety of techniques and modalities depending upon the patient’s needs and diagnosis.

The massage therapy procedures offered by Danny include Myofascial release, neuromuscular activation techniques, Shockwave, bio-mechanics education, joint mobilization, trigger-point release, deep tissue, and fascial stretch therapy.

Danny has also competed in power-lifting competitions back in 2015 and has treated elite athletes who play a variety of professional sports such as bodybuilding, Olympic weightlifting as well as worked with professional athletes involved in UFC and the World Cup.

Areas of specialization include:

RAPID NFR (Specialist)

NKT (Lv1)

Shockwave BTL (Level 1 + 2)

Manual lymphatic drainage

Work, leisure and athletic injuries

Motor Vehicle Accidents

Stretch and ROM gains

Improving the contact and movement of bones at joints including managing osteoarthritis

Fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue

Fascial Stretch Therapy

Danny has worked with athletic professionals in:

UFC, Professional Fighter – Hakeem Dawodu

Football, Striker – Kevin Francis Stockport County

Olympian, Bodybuilder – Bhuwan Chauhan

Pursuing his passion, Danny has graduated as a massage therapist from Mount Royal University. He’... Read More

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Located at: 12445 Lake Fraser Dr SE, Calgary
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