Treatments
Different types of massage are vital for promoting healthy living and supporting physical, emotional, and mental well-being. Consistent treatments can significantly impact your ability manage a stressful lifestyle by alleviating stress. Massage techniques involve the manual manipulation of muscles, fascia, and strains, breaking down scar tissue and employing both active and passive stretching to lower muscle tension.
Sports Massage
Sports massage is a set of specialised techniques for the treatment of muscle, tendon & ligament problems. Anyone, not just athletes can benefit from sports massage, if they have aches & pains caused by either over use or incorrect use of muscles.
Helps to improve range of motion to joints & blood circulation.
Remedial Massage
Remedial massage aims to treat muscles that are damaged, knotted, tense or immobile. It is useful for a number of problems that affect the muscles & tendons. It can stimulate the blood supply & make joints more mobile & help the damaged tissues repair. It improves blood circulation & lymphatic drainage.
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Deep Tissue Massage
Deep tissue massage therapy isn't just a Swedish massage with deeper strokes or harder pressure. Deep tissue massages use firm pressure & slow strokes to massage deep layers of muscle & fascia, which is the connective tissue that surrounds your muscles.
It helps to improve blood circulation, lymphatic drainage & helps to reduce emotional & physical stress to the body.
Swedish Massage
Swedish massage can be known as the classic massage. It is a therapeutic massage that works the soft tissues & muscles, which helps to restore health by creating calm & balance effect on the nervous system. Techniques often used used are gliding, stroking & kneading. It is good for soothing tight muscles & boosting well being, it also so improves blood circulation & reduces emotional & physical stress.
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Myofascial Dry Cupping
Myofascial dry cupping is an alternative therapy that uses suction cups to stimulate your skin & muscles. It promotes blood circulation, which relieves tension, promotes cell repair & aids regeneration. It is a painless technique. It allows the tissues to stretch which increases mobility at the joint and reduces swelling after an injury.
Infra-red light
Infra-red light helps to treat pain & inflammation. It enhances cell regeneration. Infra-red light is delivered to the site of injury or inflammation, at certain wave lengths. It promotes cell repair. The light penetrates deep into the layers of skin, providing better pain relief.
Dry needling
Dry needling releases tight muscles that are associated with trigger points or hard knots that cause pain over a large area. Dry needling involves acupuncture needles being interred into muscles, ligaments, tendons, subcutaneous fascia or scar tissue. It focuses on stimulating a trigger point that is leading to pain and disability. The needles are inserted and gentle manipulated and removed after a short time.
Kinesiology Taping
Kinesiology taping helps to stabilise the muscle during movement. The tape lifts the connective tissue which allows blood to flow while also giving support.
Trigger Point
Trigger point helps to improve circulation, reduce tension & stress. It helps to improve mobility & flexibility. It can help to relieve headaches.
It involves manual techniques using pressure & stretching muscles.
Soft Tissue Release
Soft tissue release is a technique used to restore normal flexibility to a muscle. It is particularly useful when a muscle becomes very tense & shortened.