Remedial Massage

We can all suffer from muscle pain, stiffness and dysfunction, whether its caused by an accident, injury or simply long term build up of tension from working at a desk or spending long periods in the car. Remedial massage can help to repair damaged muscle fibres, restore mobility and flexibility and ultimately decrease pain by working intensively with specific muscle groups on localised areas of your body. Muscles can become damaged or impaired in many ways and muscular imbalances to one area of the body can often create referred pain in different locations as other muscle groups compensate for the injury. Pulled muscles (strains) and pulled ligaments (sprains) can cause damage to surrounding tissue and deep tissue massage encourages repair and speeds the body’s own healing mechanisms.

Remedial massage is not carried out in a particular sequence, like a body massage. Each client is treated as a new and individual case, and the therapist will use their knowledge, skills and deep palpation to detect damage and excess tension in your muscles therefore treatment times and massage procedures will vary with each treatment.

Relieves pain
Shortens recovery time
Restores mobility
Increases muscle flexibility
Improves joint function
Prevents injuries
Improves sports performance
Invokes general feeling of well-being
Breaks down fatty tissue
Promotes relaxation

Therapists: Max Edwards, Amanda Lyons, Jo McManus, Hema O'Connor, Gisele Partridge,

Sports Therapy and Injury Rehabilitation

Great demands are made on our bodies, whether its sport related or physical activities in our daily lives. Which ever way we look at it, it involves the mechanics or our musculo-skeletal system (muscles, bones, cartilage and associated tissues). Physical injury / imbalance can be defined as any stress on the body that prevents normal function.

The aim of injury rehabilitation is to reduce overall muscle tension and increase the mobility of our joints and limbs. We then aim to improve and restore balance and function.

Techniques used include:

Postural and mechanical observations to address structural balance through to testing muscle strength, length and its integrity.
Manual tissue work is used to release tone, increase muscle fiber length, strength and to provide functional skills & exercise prescription to aid towards maintenance/recovery.

Benefits are