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From Jackie Hilton
For the sporty and not so sporty read on ....Sports people have gained greater awareness in recent years regarding preventative treatments rather than reactive treatments. Meaning that those who undertake serious sporting activity on a weekly basis or at a high level are now taking more control of their personal fitness and seeking sports massage to help improve performance and maintain a healthy muscle/nervous system relationship.
Sports massage is no longer just considered for our world athletes.
As well as offering sports massage, I am trained in a variety of therapies including Hot Stone Massage, Indian Head Massage and Reflexology. I use all of these in my treatments thus offering my clients the best service for their requirements.
Why choose to have a sports massage? Just like a finely tuned sports car your body needs to be running at its best to get the high performance you require. We lead such busy lives and are often trying to balance more than one thing at a time all adding to the stress of daily life. So to help with not only your daily life but also your sports life here are some of the benefits of receiving regular treatments.
· Encourages better circulation therefore more efficient delivery of nutrients and oxygen to cells and more efficient waste removal.
· Encourages deeper, more efficient and relaxed breathing.
· Help relieve muscle fatigue, soreness and stiffness.
· Helps relieve tired and stiff joints.
· Helps promote general relaxation.
· Helps improves circulation.
· Helps to boost immunity.
· Helps to improve muscle suppleness.
· Helps improve neural communication and relaxes the nervous system.
· Helps to balance the digestive system
· Encourages an increase in energy by invigorating all body systems and reducing fatigue.
· Encourages relaxation of the mind, thereby reducing anxiety and its effects.
If you are looking to improve “personal best” times and you are finding you cannot, or you are going home each week with the same injuries, then perhaps it is time you took matters into your own hands. We spend money on the best equipment but often neglect ourselves.
Sports massage is a deep tissue treatment and not all injuries are from sports. Increasing use of computers means that more and more people are getting “mouse shoulder”, and stress plays one of the biggest parts of employers being off work sick.
If I can be of further help or you wish to speak to me then please do not hesitate to contact me on 01963 350405 or 07891747239. Appointments are available some evenings and weekends as well as during a weekday.
From John Wilks
Posture and the Bowen TechniquePosture is a major influencing factor in the origin of our physical aches and pains. Our bodies are incredibly resilient at absorbing and dealing with the physical and emotional knocks that life throws at us. However, in order for us to function, we develop coping strategies and complex compensation patterns that enable us to maintain balance and order in our lives, both on a physical and psychological level. However, these compensation patterns can have a physical and frequently an emotional cost to us in the long run.
If someone has experienced a car accident that has involved a blow to their pelvis, it is likely that this will be reflected in every other part of their body, from the feet right up to the neck and shoulders. What is interesting to observe is how tight and weak areas of the body will compensate each other to allow us to maintain balance. These relationships often change dramatically after a Bowen session. By a series of very gentle moves over muscles, a Bowen treatment seems to allow these holding patterns to re-orient to a previously more healthy position.
The key to effective treatment is to find where the original organising factor in someone’s condition is located. For example, a knee injury might be occurring because that person has a weak toe joint or a pelvic imbalance, which is putting undue strain on the knee as they walk, or headaches might be occurring because of an old fall on the tailbone.
John Wilks, Bowen practitioner is available for appointments at the Pither’s Yard Clinic on Mondays.