Massage Therapy in Coral Springs, FL

Why Coral Springs patients choose us for massage therapy

The Spine and Wellness Center has cared for Coral Springs families since 2005. Here is why they keep choosing us for massage therapy in Coral Springs rather than a clinic down the street.

• Close enough to be routine. The clinic is about 5 to 10 minutes from Coral Springs via University Drive, Wiles Road or Coral Ridge Drive. Free parking is at the door, and we schedule follow-ups around your commute so the drive stays a non-issue.
• Hours built for working people. Open until 7:00 pm three evenings a week (Monday, Tuesday, Thursday), plus Wednesday afternoons and Friday mornings.
• Care that fits Coral Springs life. We regularly treat Coral Springs families, youth athletes from the Sportsplex and Mullins Park, golfers from Eagle Trace and Heron Bay, and commuters who use the Sawgrass every day. That experience shapes everything from the exam to the home-care plan.

Clinical massage versus a spa massage: what Coral Springs patients should expect

Massage therapy in Coral Springs comes in two flavors, and only one of them belongs in a treatment plan. Relaxation massage aims at an hour of comfort. Clinical massage aims at a measurable change in a specific muscle — less guarding beside a locked facet joint, a released trigger point that was referring pain into the shoulder blade, hip flexors that finally let the pelvis level out.

• Prescribed, not booked on a whim. The regions treated come from your exam and surface EMG scan, the same data Dr. Jared Cohen, DC uses to plan your adjustments.
• Focused, not full-body. Thirty or sixty minutes on the lumbar paraspinals, the upper traps and suboccipitals, or the glutes and piriformis — whatever is driving the problem.
• Judged by tomorrow. The success measure is how your spine moves the next day and how long the adjustment holds, not just how the table felt.

The Spine and Wellness Center has served Coral Springs since 2005, and clinical massage has been part of the plan the whole time because muscles and joints are one system. Our massage therapy page explains the techniques in depth; here is the Coral Springs-specific version.

How does massage release guarding, trigger points and fascia?

A muscle in spasm is doing a job: splinting a joint or a disc it thinks is in danger. The trouble is that it keeps doing the job long after the danger has passed. Clinical massage is how we talk it out of that, and the technique depends on what the tissue is doing.

Guarding and spasm

Slow, sustained pressure along the lumbar or cervical paraspinals drops their resting tone. This is the most common prescription for Coral Springs patients in acute pain — the back so tight they cannot stand straight after youth sports at the Sportsplex and Mullins Park.

Trigger points and referral

A trigger point is a taut band that sends pain elsewhere: upper traps into the temple, suboccipitals behind the eye, piriformis down the leg like sciatica. Held pressure on the band itself, not the place it hurts, is what releases it.

Fascia, and when hands are not enough

Myofascial release stretches thickened connective tissue slowly and at low load. Cupping lifts tissue by suction where compression has stopped working. For the fibrotic adhesions around an old injury we hand off to Graston Technique, whose instruments reach what fingers cannot.

NCCIH reports that massage may help short-term with low back and neck pain and is generally safe from a trained professional (NCCIH, Massage Therapy: What You Need To Know) — which is precisely the window we use it in.

Why pair massage therapy in Coral Springs with adjustments and decompression?

Think of a locked joint and the muscles around it as a door and the hand holding it shut. The adjustment opens the door; if the hand is still gripping, it closes again by the time you reach Heron Bay. Massage first loosens the grip. That is the sequence we use for almost every Coral Springs patient in the Repair phase.

In practice: a 30-minute targeted session on the guarded region, straight into a specific chiropractic adjustment in the next room, then cold laser or PEMF for inflammation. For disc patients the order matters even more, because non-surgical spinal decompression on the Triton DTS table only works when the lumbar paraspinals are relaxed enough to let the vertebrae separate.

Where tissue has gone fibrotic, massage prepares the region and Graston Technique does the detailed work. Where the problem is a forward head and a stiff upper back from years of the daily commute down the Sawgrass Expressway, massage on the upper traps and suboccipitals before a cervical adjustment is the combination that neck pain patients notice first.

Where does massage fit in the 4R Method?

Every plan at The Spine and Wellness Center follows the 4R Method — Repair, Rebuild, Regenerate, Refine — and massage therapy in Coral Springs shows up in more than one phase, with a different job in each.

Repair — support (3–5 visits a week, 4–8 weeks)

In Repair, massage is a support tool. Its job is to release guarding so adjustments and decompression can do their work, and so you sleep — many Coral Springs patients in acute pain have not slept through the night in weeks. Sessions are shorter and highly targeted.

Rebuild and Regenerate — as needed

Once the pain has settled and rehab takes over (2–3 visits a week for 8–16 weeks, then about twice a week in Regenerate), massage drops to as-needed: a session when physical therapy loading leaves the hips or mid-back tight, or when the surface EMG re-scan shows a region guarding again.

Refine — recovery (monthly)

In Refine, massage becomes recovery. A monthly 60-minute session alongside your structural tune-up keeps tissue supple, catches new trigger points early, and — for the golfers, pickleball players and desk workers of Coral Springs — is often the difference between a tight week and a flare-up.

What is a session like, who benefits most, and what happens at your first two visits?

Sessions are 30 or 60 minutes depending on the plan, in a private room, and focused on the regions your findings call for. A typical session for a Coral Springs patient runs like this:

1. Check-in. The therapist reviews your current symptoms and the latest scan findings and asks about pressure tolerance.
2. Targeted work. Guarding release and trigger point therapy on the regions driving your pain — commonly the lumbar paraspinals and glutes, or the upper traps and suboccipitals.
3. Pressure you control. Clinical does not mean painful. Deep work should feel like a ‘good hurt’ you can breathe through; say the word and it eases.
4. Hand-off. Massage is usually scheduled right before your adjustment, so you walk from the massage room to the treatment room.

Afterward, drink water, move gently and expect mild soreness for up to a day in areas that were very tight. Tell us about skin conditions, blood thinners, recent surgery or pregnancy before your session so the approach can be adapted. Massage changes the trajectory most for acute low back pain with heavy guarding, tension headaches from desk posture, hip and SI pain with tight flexors, athletes between training sessions, and stress-driven shoulder tension.

Like everything here, massage is prescribed after your first two visits. Visit one is a measurement visit: a conversation, a hands-on structural exam, surface EMG and thermal scanning, and digital X-rays when indicated. Visit two is your report of findings with Dr. Jared Cohen, DC, and Most patients have already begun care on visit one; this is where the full plan takes over. Take the 60-second spine assessment before you leave Coral Springs for a head start. If you have loss of bladder or bowel control, rapidly worsening weakness, or back pain with fever, please see a doctor or urgent care today.

Getting to our Coral Springs clinic from Coral Springs

From Coral Square Mall at University Drive and Atlantic Boulevard, head north on University Drive to Wiles Road, turn west to Coral Ridge Drive, then north; the clinic is on Coral Ridge Drive just south of the Sawgrass Expressway.

There is free parking at the door and no building to navigate — you walk straight into reception. For a same-day appointment, call (954) 341-2256 before you leave Coral Springs, or book online.

Clinic hours

Monday	9:00 am – 7:00 pm
Tuesday	9:00 am – 7:00 pm
Wednesday	3:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Thursday	9:00 am – 7:00 pm
Friday	9:00 am – 12:00 pm
Saturday – Sunday	Closed

The Spine and Wellness Center
5675 Coral Ridge Drive, Coral Springs, FL 33076
Phone: (954) 341-2256
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What patients say

A Google review from a patient who, like you, comes to us from Coral Springs:

“I was dealing with ongoing elbow and shoulder pain affecting my daily routine and workouts. The treatment plan felt personalized — over the months I’ve noticed steady progress: less pain, better mobility, feeling stronger.”

Related care for Coral Springs residents

Start with the full guide to massage therapy, then explore the other care we provide for Coral Springs patients.

Serving massage therapy patients from Coral Springs across North Broward

Our clinic at 5675 Coral Ridge Drive, Coral Springs, FL 33076 serves Coral Springs, Parkland, Coconut Creek, Margate, Boca Raton, Tamarac, Pompano Beach and Deerfield Beach. Same-day appointments are usually available — call (954) 341-2256 or book online. Most patients from Parkland and Coral Springs are here in under 15 minutes.

Medically reviewed by Dr. Jared Cohen, DC — Co-Founder & Clinical Director, The Spine and Wellness Center. Last reviewed October 2026.

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