Luke Sparrow Massage and Coaching

23/03/2025

What is strength training really?
It’s not just lifting weights—it’s a neurological stimulus that helps your brain reconnect with your body. Unlike cardio or endurance, it’s not about fatigue—it’s about control and precision.

Why it matters:
Chronic pain often comes from losing the brain-body connection. Strength training helps reactivate muscles your brain has “lost” (like weak glutes), so your body moves better and hurts less.

Why me?
You need someone to help you find what you can’t feel. That’s where I come in.

Here’s what Cath said:
“Luke is an amazing therapist. I’ve spent years trying to get help with complex musculoskeletal issues. Luke immediately identified the underlying problem so many had missed. Highly recommend.”

Tired of pain? Let’s fix it for good.

05/03/2025

I will be closed for business Thursday and Friday. But I will be open all weekend for rescheduling and bookings.

16/08/2024

01/06/2024

For alot of chronic pain sufferers the mind plays a big role. A conflicting perception between a fear to move and a need to move, creates a sense of hopelessness, especially when traditional physical therapy doesn't help. Now, VR tech is helping to address the psychological side of pain by improving the confidence in movement and convincing the brain that movement is not as threatening as it once perceived. So cool!
I treat this kind of psychosomatic pain also through vagus nerve stimulation, which talks to that threat processing part of the brain, which also helps my clients return to a pain free movement. Glad to see more emphasis is being put on this important part of chronic pain.
https://youtu.be/cJh_yO-p5f0?si=hlwOzPl-wxMnRMVV

26/04/2024

You don't need less stress, you need more.
Let me explain.

I promise, this is not another ice bath bro post, but there is something that cold immersion and other practices like saunas and hard workouts have in common, that I feel is at the heart of a lot of the pain and dysfunction I see on a day to day basis in my clinic room.

Firstly though some basic neurology (bare with me). It is said that your health is basically a reflection how much stress your system can take before it disrupts your daily living. If you feel "stressed out" this is you reaching your limit. It is this 'limit' that we want to talk about here. The basic function of your nervous system is this...

INPUTS
This is all the sensory information coming at you from both your external and internal environment. This is the hot day, the food you just ate and the sense of where your body is in space.

PROCESSING
After sensory information enters the system it is processed. This is mostly done by the brain and is essentially your body and mind figuring out, what does this mean and what should be done about it.

OUTPUT
Once the mind produces a response, some kind of output is generated. This could be a sensation like really needing to p*e or feeling very hungry. A lot of the time however it is a myriad activity that YOU are never aware of.

It is this 'YOU' the experiencer of feelings and sensations that gets 'stressed out' and it is all because various INPUTS have been PROCESSED as too stressful and the OUTPUT is you feel stressed.

Whilst there are many ways to approach this there is one avenue that is entirely within your power to control and change. Improving your processing of stressful inputs can completely change the way you experience your life. I believe it is the sheer lack of these short term high stress experiences (and this is key) in a controlled environment followed by safety and calm, that leaves most far too sensitive to the world.

Activities that expose you to short term high stress followed by safety, moves the needle on whether an input becomes an output of "this is too much". The essence here is more bouts of controlled stress equals less chronic stress.

13/02/2024

What is the difference between Remedial Massage and regular massage?

What a lot of people don't know is that a professional remedial massage therapist is trained to do a lot of what a physiotherapist does. We both assess whatever issues you are currently dealing with and come up with a plan to treat it. However, a remedial therapist will do a lot more hands-on tissue work, using various techniques like deep tissue work, needling and cupping to restore proper function of muscles, joints and nerves. Some physios will do this too but tend to focus more on exercises that will help resolve the issue. Both are important and remedial therapists will offer exercises if necessary.

A regular massage, one that you might find in a shopping centre or local Thai massage place, tends to be more general. Unless otherwise requested this usually looks like some sort of full body treatment using long sweeping strokes to move blood and lymphatic fluids around the body. This is why you may feel quite relaxed and groggy after.

Both are excellent options, it just depends on what you're trying to achieve. The benefit of seeing a professional remedial therapist (like me) is that they can likely do both anyway and you can consult with them as to what you want or need.

13/02/2024

Got a chance to get away and visit this cutie. Bust uncle ever 😁

29/01/2024