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at Forge taps into your body’s intrinsic healing flow, clearing blockages, restoring balance and nurturing lasting vitality.

TARGETED MASSAGE FOR REAL RECOVERY

Our Registered Massage Therapists in Burnaby combine expert touch with genuine care to melt away tension, boost your mood, and refill your energy reserves. Whether you’re easing chronic aches or recovering from an ICBC injury, each session is tailored precisely to your needs—so you step back into life feeling lighter, stronger, and more like yourself.

Ease into calm and rediscover your peace

Melt away the day’s tension under our nurturing hands as we guide you into a state of calm and renewal. In this serene space, you’re invited to release physical tightness, quiet your mind and rediscover a sense of balance, emerging lighter, clearer, and ready to meet whatever comes next.

Restorative RMT Care Following Surgery

From carefully melting scar tissue to guiding fluid flow with lymphatic drainage techniques, our post-surgical massage sessions are tailored around you. We ease swelling, restore mobility, and rebuild your trust in movement, whether you’re fresh out of the hospital or settling back into daily life.

Find the root. Rebuild with purpose.

Perfect for athletes and weekend warriors alike, our sports-focused RMT combines deep-tissue work, strategic stretching, and neuromuscular re-education. We speed healing from sprains and strains, shore up your resilience and fine-tune your body so you can perform and recover at your best.

Tender support for expectant and new moms

We provide gentle, nurturing care tailored to the needs of pregnancy and new motherhood. With supportive positioning and soothing techniques, we ease back and hip tension, reduce swelling and help balance mood and energy with the goal of guiding you comfortably in preparation for labour and postpartum recovery.

Headache, Stress & Hormone Balance

Calm your qi, ease your mind

We gently unblock stagnation along your head and hormonal meridians so tension headaches and stress simply melt away. With each precise needle insertion, your body’s natural rhythms are restored, leaving you feeling clear-headed, emotionally balanced, and ready to face the day with calm confidence.

Injury Recovery & Pain Relief

Unblock meridians for swift healing

Our acupuncturists combine deep TCM knowledge with compassionate care to clear energy obstructions and reduce inflammation. By targeting points along injured channels, we activate your body’s own regenerative qi, relieving pain and helping you reclaim movement and strength more quickly.

Digestive & Organ Support

Nourish your inner balance

Using centuries-old meridian mapping, we stimulate the points linked to your digestive, liver, and immune systems—encouraging smooth qi flow and improved vitality. At Forge, you’ll feel your body settle into a harmonious state as digestion, detoxification, and overall resilience are gently but powerfully enhanced.

Sports Performance Massage

Optimize energy for peak form

Sports acupuncture blends targeted needling with TCM movement principles to accelerate muscle repair, release lingering tension, and sharpen your stamina. Whether you’re recovering from a recent game or gearing up for your next personal best, our treatments help you move with greater agility and enduring energy.

Preventative & Wellness Care

Sustain yin-yang harmony

Regular sessions at Forge keep your qi finely tuned—preventing small imbalances from becoming symptoms and fortifying your body against stress and illness. Drawing on the Taoist wisdom of balance, we support your long-term vitality so you can live fully, with energy and grace.

Each Touch

Has Purpose

EACH
TOUCH HAS PURPOSE

Our Registered Massage Therapists bring precision, presence, and proven techniques to every session, bringing you closer to relief, resilience, and renewed comfort.

swedish massage

Gentle, flowing strokes warm and relax surface muscles, boost circulation, ease stress, and prime deeper tissues for more focused work.

deep tissue massage

Slow, firm pressure and targeted strokes break up chronic tension in deeper muscles and fascia—perfect for stubborn knots, scar tissue, and limited mobility.

trigger point release

Direct pressure on tight “knots” deactivates painful trigger points, easing referred pain and restoring smoother muscle coordination.

myofascial release

Sustained, gentle stretching of fascia unwinds adhesions, restoring flexibility, reducing pain and improving tissue glide.

lymphatic drainage massage

Light, rhythmic movements stimulate lymph flow—reducing post-surgical swelling, aiding detoxification, and supporting immune and circulatory health.

instrument-assisted soft-tissue mobilization

Stainless-steel tools glide over the skin to break up adhesions and scar tissue, boost circulation, and restore smoother movement.

WE START WITH reliEF

mapping your personal tension points and goals, then guiding each massage session towards equilibrium and comfort.

Initial Assessment
Listening to your needs and concerns
We start by hearing your story, reviewing your health history and doing a brief hands-on evaluation to assess tension patterns, scar tissue, swelling, and areas of restricted movement. This ensures every massage session is focused on what matters most.
Initial Assessment
Personalized Treatment Plan
Crafted around your goals
After our first session, we create a personalized plan, mixing gentle strokes, deep‐tissue release, tool‐assisted mobilization, and lymphatic support—tailored to your pain, goals and lifestyle.
Personalized Treatment Plan
Treatment Sessions
Expert care, gentle hands.
Once your plan is in place, our sessions bring it to life, combining gentle warm-up strokes, focused muscle releases, and supportive modalities to ease discomfort, boost circulation and restore mobility so you leave each visit feeling more at ease in your body.
Treatment Sessions
Progress Monitoring
Adjusting as you improve.
Throughout your program we check in, tracking your comfort, range of motion, and feedback and fine-tune pressure levels, techniques, and session frequency. This responsive approach keeps you steadily moving toward your recovery goals.
Progress Monitoring
Self-Care & Support
Tools for lasting comfort
We equip you with simple at-home tools such as stretch cues, self-massage tips and posture guidance while always being here for you for tune-ups or to adapt your plan as your needs evolve.
Self-Care & Support

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ICBC Rehabilitation

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Worksafe BC Rehabilitation

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TMJ & Jaw Physiotherapy

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Sports Physiotherapy

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