Techniques
This style of bodywork is designed for hard working bodies that push limits, often used on clients who take their health and fitness seriously. Balancing work, life and sports can be challenging, often compromising on sleep and recovery which are essential to maintaining a healthy functioning body for optimal performance.
An active lifestyle can lead to soft tissue dysfunction caused by repetitive and strenuous activity, so we use a combination of sports techniques, including corrective exercises to ensure correct alignment, for clients who require recovery and maintenance work, or athletes preparing / recovering from a sporting event or training.
Using a variety of deep manipulative release techniques, including cold and heat therapy if required, that work into soft tissue to allow the body to heal, perform and function more efficiently.
Additional benefits...
- Increases flexibility and range of movement
- Breaks down scar tissue
- Promotes quicker healing of injuries
- Reduces pain
- Improves circulation and increases cellular exchange
- Regular sessions can reduce the risk of injury
- Aids recovery to enhance sports performance
neuromuscular release
I use this massage technique in most sessions to help relieve sore, tight muscles and imbalances. This specialist massage technique involves applying sustained pressure on tight muscle fibers, controlled with breathwork to relax and release soft tissue.
Benefits...
- Assists muscles to return to resting length
- Improves posture by helping to rectify muscular imbalances
- Restores flexibility and range of movement
- Relieves muscular tension and soreness
- Improves circulation
Fire Cupping Therapy
This form of bodywork works differently to others by decompressing soft tissues using vacuum suction. Cupping works to lift and separate tissues from the skeleton, creating space for the suction technique to pull toxin build-up from deeper tissues to the skin surface, moving stagnation out of the body to relieve pain from muscle tension. Fire cupping pulls and stretches the muscles, tendons and connective tissue and the warmth helps to lengthen them. This is a fantastic treatment for assisting healing and recovery. Fire cupping also works deep into the body through reverse massage, lifting and separating tissues through suction to relieve pain and speed up healing.
Benefits...
- Relieves muscular tension and soreness
- Increases linear length of muscles
- Can be used around new tears and injuries in the early stages of treatment when massage cannot be applied
- The reverse massage technique allows access to joint capsules and deep muscles groups
- Increases blood supply to the area to relax and repair muscles
pnf stretching
Proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation (PNF), is an assisted stretching technique that can help improve range of motion. It works by stretching the muscle, contracting it isometrically against resistance, and then stretching it again to increase range of motion. There are a few different PNF techinques I use, predominenetly at the end of a session while the body is warm, for reducing the risk of injury, rehabilitation, or to compliment manual work on focus areas.clients
Benefits...
- Increases range of motion (ROM)
- Boost muscle strength and power
- Increases muscle flexibility