Kooiker to speak at LWM meeting in Frazee - Frazee-Vergas Forum

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Chelsey Kooiker has transferred her massage therapy business from the Fargo-Moorhead metro to her hometown of Vergas. Her business Restorative Massage is located in Lori Tjaden’s Cutting Edge Salon on Elm Street.

By Robert Williams

Editor

Licensed Massage Therapist Chelsey Kooiker will be the keynote speaker at this month’s Lutheran Woman in Mission meeting at Bethlehem Lutheran Church on Thursday, April 24, at 1:30 p.m.

Kooiker is a Vergas native who moved her massage business from Fargo-Moorhead to the village in late 2023, setting up shop at Cutting Edge Salon.

Kooiker began her restorative therapy in a nursing home setting for five years utilizing exercise routines and range of motion designated by a physical therapist. Her initial plans were to go into a medical field, before changing to massage.

Kooiker used her pre-med background to find her specialty.

“I want to let people know that I’m here because massage is really important in people’s lives,” she told the Forum in a November 2023 feature interview. “I specialize in deep tissue specific work for the neck, shoulders and low back. Ever since I started in massage, everyone presents with that and I’ve been able to specialize in it. It kind of came to me that’s what I’m really good at—the deep tissue. We’ve got trigger-point, range of motion and I use cups a lot.”

Massage therapy and the services provided are also contingent on communication between therapist and the client.
Kooiker provides a wide variety of different treatments.

Kooiker will introduce herself and discuss her treatment at the LWM meeting.

“I have experience working with a wide range of ailments,” she said. “We don’t say that we fix people because your body fixes itself, but I’m an instigator trying to correct the muscles.”

More information

Restorative Massage by Chelsey Kooiker

Bethlehem Lutheran Church, Frazee

Thursday, April 24, 1:30 p.m.