Krista Veryzer – RMT Getting Back To Her Roots

Jeff Green | Sep 11, 2024

Krista Veryzer spent 20 years running a wedding cake and cake business that she more or less fell into, as a member of the Card family, of Cards bakery, a Kingston institution.

Working in the cake business, and always being interested in athletics as well, she ended up needing treatments for neck and other parts of her body, and this sparked an interest in holistic health and human anatomy and physiology.

She was also finding that the stress of the wedding industry and its tendency to make her very busy on weekends, was making it more difficult to care for and spend quality time with her two daughters, Evelyn and Adalane, who were 3 and 6 at the time. So, in 2019, while living in Sydenham and raising her two daughters, she left the cake business behind and enrolled in Trillium College to study massage therapy. Her studies were slowed somewhat by COVID, but she graduated, with honours, in June of 2022, and has been focussed on developing an RMT (Registered Massage Therapist) practice in Kingston.

Until now, that is.

Starting this week, she has joined with the Sharbot Lake Chiropractic and Wellness Centre.

Her practice includes hot stone massage, deep tissue massage, and TMJ (Temporomandibular joint dysfunction treatment.

She describes hot stone massage as a “treatment using heated volcanic stones to massage muscle and connective tissue. The heat and firm pressure the stones provide are relaxing and are effective in treating trigger points and tension in the body.”

Her specific form of deep tissue massage treatment is designed to “de-stress tight muscles and trigger points and is used in combination with relaxing and soothing kneading and flushing of lymphatic drainage.”

One of her specialties is TMJ, which is particularly effective for clients suffering from chronic headache pain. TMJ focuses on the “muscles of mastication of the jaw joints and associated jaw and neck muscles. Treatment can be intraoral with the use of sterile gloves to aid the tension release of the internal muscles. External treatment of neck, head and shoulders are also provided to complement the overall treatment.

Krista has used TMJ treatments to help clients with chronic headache pain.

She also works on on lowering cortisol levels in her patients through her massage techniques, which is helpful for all, but particularly for post menopausal women.

“I am particularly happy to join the Sharbot Lake Wellness Centre team” she said, “because of the complimentary services that are offered here. We all have our specialties and can provide for many different health issues,” she said.

She is also excited about working in Sharbot Lake, and is hoping to move, in the not-too distant future. It is a homecoming of sorts for her, because of her family heritage is in Mississippi Station and Snow Road.

Her grandfather, Edgerton Card, decided to open a lumber mill on the Mississippi River near Snow Road after WW2. Her grandmother started baking and selling baked goods out of the family home. Kristas’s mother and all of her aunts went to Sharbot Lake High School in the 1960s. Eventually the mill burned down and the family moved to the edge of Kingston, where her grandfather built a duplex next to where Card’s Lumber still stands today, on Road 38, where she grew up. Card’s Bakery eventually moved to downtown Kingston, where it continues to thrive, as does the lumber mill.

Krista Veryzer started at the Sharbot Lake Chiropractic and Wellness Centre this week. For information about her, and the other practitioners at the centre, go to sharbotlakechiropractic.ca and to book appointments call 613-279-5555.