Kings Heath Sports Therapy

13/05/2023

24/02/2023

"This is not a badge of honour, not required or needed to make people feel better, so why do it?

This isn't Massage Therapy...

This is closer to "GBH" than to any kind of helpful or effective form of manual therapy.

I show these images to my students as an example of what not to do!

There is no plausible reason or consensus in the evidence to support marking and bruising people like this with scraping (IASTM / Gua Sha) or cupping techniques traditionally used for thousands of years in most massage therapies eastern or western. That is not a good enough reason to carry on doing this in the 21st Century. We move on with our understanding and so what we do needs to move on too.

Suffice to say we never teach our students to ever harm people like this.

We teach them to work with the clients body to help them with their issues, via techniques and therapies that actually do work for the reasons we think they do, making them a step ahead of the other therapists already in circulation, doing these types of treatments."

Daniel Williams
Musculoskeletal Therapist
DNM UK, MTE & SME Tutorwilliams.mvmnt

07/09/2022

🛑 Did you know that poor posture doesn't always correlate with pain?⁠
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🤔 In fact, people in pain don't have different postures to those who don't have pain⁠
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🙌🏻 Here's a great blog by that looks at the evidence behind posture and pain and what it means for your clinical practice.⁠
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🔗 Read it now: https://www.physio-network.com/blog/using-science-to-understand-more-about-why-posture-pain-do-not-simply-relate/

28/07/2022

Who are the toughest, endurance or strength athletes?

06/07/2022

“TRUE treatment of chronic pain requires targeting the whole person….”

Dr. Rachel Zoffness

02/07/2022

If you prefer a gentle approach to manual therapy, DNM is perfect for you. It treats the cutaneous nerves (below the skin) to help reduce pain.

Get in touch if you would like to see how this technique could help you.

12/06/2022

This 👇

06/06/2022

01/06/2022

Lovely session with Trish and the Blazepods today.. Who says exercise isn’t fun?!!

26/05/2022

Did you know you can help turn your own pain volume down?

29/04/2022

Exercise is good for joints with wear and tear arthritis.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-61255733?fbclid=IwAR2DK0B0iyrMHJayzQ879QQTYDE7oxgTnTOgTP4eofYWplVx1H8jIgCAOXk

It may hurt, but exercise is beneficial for joints, experts say in guidance for doctors and patients.

03/04/2022

I want to quash the rumour that sports massage is brutal.

For example, DNM (Dermoneuromodulation) is a very gentle hands on treatment that works on the cutaneous nerves just below the skin to reduce pain. It can be used as a stand alone treatment or in conjunction with other techniques or movement to maximise results. This and other superficial techniques can help to relax the muscles by calming the nervous system.

True, there are some techniques that can be more uncomfortable but when applied within a client’s comfort level, even these are tolerable.

Muscles do not need to be pummelled within an inch of their lives for the massage to be effective and over the years I’ve seen the slower and more gradual approach gives better results.

So, if the thought of a Sports Massage fills you with dread, fear not, let me show you I’m nothing like the rumour.

03/04/2022

At a time when there are price hikes everywhere, I would like to announce prices for Sports Massage, PT and Injury Rehab will remain the same. 🎉🎉

The price freeze also applies to the Short & Sweat classes (see link in comments).

16/03/2022

What does self-care mean to you?

15/03/2022

Good news for runners 👍🏻

Some good (and counter-intuitive) news about intervertebral discs. It’s like spinal Christmas! Running may be good for your intervertebral discs, rather than being too hard on them. It makes them…

14/03/2022

Excited to start offering Dermoneuromodulation from next week.

"DermoNeuroModulating, or -tion, is a structured, interactive approach to manual therapy that considers the nervous system of the patient from skin cell to sense of self. Techniques are slow, light, kind, intelligent, responsive and effective. Positioning of limbs and trunk affects deeper nerve trunks (by shortening and widening their container), and is combined with skin stretch directed toward cutaneous fields of nerves that branch outward into skin (which may draw neural structure further through its container).
It is prudent to remember that manual handling of a patient's physicality is only a small part of developing a complete therapeutic context for change - while optional, it can also be optimal." - Diane Jacobs