LM Sports Massage

26/11/2025

L M Sports Massage & Soft Tissue Therapy

What happens in one, is happening in the other two.
The connection between the Jaw, Pelvis and Feet is undeniable, so common habits that you might be adopting in one area, will have a knock on effect.
Eg, chewing on one side of your mouth, leaning on one leg when standing, locking out your knees and standing on your heels.

All of us, if the truth be told do all of these things at one point or another, and once in a while, no harm done. However when any or all of these postural habits become the norm, this sets up the foundation of dysfunction and eventually weakness and pain.

Without trying to make life a misery of checklists and "am I doing this or aren't I?" which is guaranteed to take the fun out of anything, just try to we aware of how your body feels.
When possible, breathe out, drop your shoulders, turn your head, relax your jaw, rotate your body from side to side, wiggle your hips, unlock your knees, stand on both feet evenly and try to engage the three points of your feet. You don't have to do all of them, even just doing one, will go a long way to establishing a more harmonious living posture.

Struggling? Give us a shout and let us give you a hand.

23/11/2025

L M Sports Massage & Soft Tissue Therapy

"Use it, or lose it, it's that simple."

Have you ever started singing a song and then can't remember how it finishes? Spent years at school learning French or Latin and 30 years later, be surprised that you can't string together the most simple of sentences?

So why be surprised when you realise that you can't do a movement that you haven't done for 30 years, the principal is the same. Regular gentle movements will keep you able to move well, this is what we call quality of life and independence.

Soft tissue therapy is a fantastic way of helping you to regain range of movement and a happier you.

22/11/2025

19/11/2025

L M Sports Massage & Soft Tissue Therapy

**** NEWS FLASH ****
It's a bit parky at the moment.

Rather than letting your shoulders move up into your coat collar and scarf, move them, do some shoulder shrugs and circle your arms, twist your body from side to side. Jump from foot to foot.

Breathe out.
Relax your jaw.
Unclench your fists.

If you are heading to the gym, take some time to warm your body up, take all of your joints through a range of movement, eg - do some deep squats with no weights, do some high knees, do jumping jacks or if bouncing around isn't your thing, get on the tread mill or exercise bike, the rower - whatever works for you and gets everything moving.

Don't forget, drink some water, or hot tea, little and often. Just because it's cold, it doesn't mean that you can't get dehydrated. Remember when you can see your breath, that is all water and if it is in the air, it is not in you.

13/11/2025

L M Sports Massage and Soft Tissue Therapy

Shallow breathing significantly impacts both physical and mental health, resulting in issues such as increased stress, anxiety, muscle fatigue and reduced oxygen intake.

Physical Effects:
Muscle Tension & Inefficiency: Shallow breathing often leads to tightness in the neck and upper chest muscles, which can result in discomfort and reduced range of motion over time. More often than not, we start to see a developing head forward posture and rounding of the upper back.

Impaired Immune Function: the lymphatic system becomes sluggish, which weakens the immune system.

Increased Heart Rate: This type of breathing can trigger the body’s stress response, leading to an elevated heart rate and potentially contributing to cardiovascular issues over time.

Reduced Oxygenation: This limits the oxygen intake and leads to symptoms like dizziness, fatigue, and cognitive difficulties due to inadequate oxygen supply to the brain.

Sleep Disruptions: sleep patterns become broken, which can lead to chronic fatigue.

Mental Effects:
Increased Anxiety and Stress: this is linked to anxiety, increasing feelings of panic and distress which in turn lead to shallow breathing exacerbating anxiety.

Cognitive Impairment: The lack of sufficient oxygen can affect cognitive functions, leading to difficulties in concentration and memory.

Mood Disturbances: Chronic shallow breathing can contribute to mood swings and emotional instability, as the body remains in a heightened state of stress.

Long-term Consequences include chronic stress, cardiovascular problems, and respiratory conditions. Practicing deep breathing techniques can help mitigate these effects, promoting relaxation and better oxygenation throughout the body.

In our treatments we are able to ease the physical manifestations and help draw your attention to how this is affecting your overall health and well-being and give simple exercises for you to follow.

13/11/2025

L M Sports Massage and Soft Tissue Therapy

Shallow breathing significantly impacts both physical and mental health, resulting in issues such as increased stress, anxiety, muscle fatigue and reduced oxygen intake.

Physical Effects:
Muscle Tension & Inefficiency: Shallow breathing often leads to tightness in the neck and upper chest muscles, which can result in discomfort and reduced range of motion over time. More often than not, we start to see a developing head forward posture and rounding of the upper back.

Impaired Immune Function: the lymphatic system becomes sluggish, which weakens the immune system.

Increased Heart Rate: This type of breathing can trigger the body's stress response, leading to an elevated heart rate and potentially contributing to cardiovascular issues over time.

Reduced Oxygenation: This limits the oxygen intake and leads to symptoms like dizziness, fatigue, and cognitive difficulties due to inadequate oxygen supply to the brain.

Sleep Disruptions: sleep patterns become broken, which can lead to chronic fatigue.

Mental Effects:
Increased Anxiety and Stress: this is linked to anxiety, increasing feelings of panic and distress which in turn lead to shallow breathing exacerbating anxiety.

Cognitive Impairment: The lack of sufficient oxygen can affect cognitive functions, leading to difficulties in concentration and memory.

Mood Disturbances: Chronic shallow breathing can contribute to mood swings and emotional instability, as the body remains in a heightened state of stress.

Long-term Consequences include chronic stress, cardiovascular problems, and respiratory conditions. Practicing deep breathing techniques can help mitigate these effects, promoting relaxation and better oxygenation throughout the body.

In our treatments we are able to ease the physical manifestations and help draw your attention to how this is affecting your overall health and well-being and give simple exercises for you to follow.

11/11/2025

L M Sports Massage and Soft Tissue Therapy

WHAT IF.....

You prioritised quality food, quality movement and quality sleep.

We can't help you with the first one but we can help with the other two.

Massage and soft tissue therapy are exceptionally effective ways of improving and sustaining fluid movement and achieving a healthy range of movement.

The effects of a massage have a deeply profound effect on improving quality of sleep.

Two Out of Three Ain't Bad.

07/11/2025

L M Sports Massage and Soft Tissue Therapy

By implementing tried and tested basic principals into your fitness regime, you will find that you achieve your goals with a stronger, healthier body. However even the best of us, struggle with aches and pains and on occasion injuries.

To try to mitigate against these, ensure that you warm up, mobilize and cool down, eat, hydrate and sleep well - in conjunction with these, book yourself in for a monthly massage and stop the niggles before they start.

https://www.lmsportsmassage.co.uk

05/11/2025

L M Sports Massage and Soft Tissue Therapy

Massage and Soft Tissue Therapy are highly effective ways of improving the quality and range of movement as well as decreasing any associated pain or discomfort.

If you find yourself avoiding a movement or action or are aware of that you struggle with a movement, get in touch and let us see if we can help.

02/11/2025

L M Sports Massage and Soft Tissue Therapy

The weekend is for most of us, a chance to sit down and have a rest after a busy week, and now that we are well and truly into autumn, we are probably spending more time inside and reaching for our phones for a relaxing hour of scrolling. Indeed you may well be doing this now - but think for a moment and look at the diagram which shows the force in weight on your spine as your head drops forward. This is the fastest way to headaches, back and neck pain, anxiety, jaw tension and believe it or not, hip pain - this is just to mention just a few.

Listen we are not trying to say, don't scroll on your phone - we all do it, but try to limit the time into small chunks and make a point of getting up and moving every few minutes, even if it is to just breathe out, drop your shoulders and move your head and neck.

Boring tip - the more upright and "uncomfortable" the chair - i.e. not the sofa, the better your posture will be and the more inclined you will be to put your phone down after a few minutes and move around. 🙂

If you do have a lapse and after several hours on your phone your back and neck are hurting, have a hot bath and try to gently move everything - failing that we are on hand to help - get booked in and we won't judge.

29/10/2025

L M Sports Massage and Soft Tissue Therapy

Who we are:

Lara & Martin are both Soft Tissue Therapists and Sports Therapists with many years experience and we have both worked with a multitude of different disciplines around the world. Both of us approach our work from the point of view of looking at the whole picture, considering the body in its entirety. We both understand how debilitating pain can be and are sensitive to the effects that this can have.

We are both fully committed to helping in any way we can and believe that helping you to help yourself is paramount to a successful and sustainable outcome. We would like to consider ourselves as bringing a balanced and pragmatic approach to our work, with a touch of humour and strong ethical values.

We offer appointments from Monday through to Saturday and have both early morning appointments and late evening appointments: https://lmsportsmassage.clinicsense.com/

We have packs of massage as well as one off appointments:
https://www.lmsportsmassage.co.uk/prices

You can find us at The Kingley Centre, between Chichester Shutters and The Vale Café and Wellness Studio.

23/10/2025

L M Sports Massage and Soft Tissue Therapy

Soft Tissue Therapy is a very practical application in the ongoing journey towards good physical and mental health. This week we have been posting stories regarding keeping your feet fit and healthy and how your feet influence your body posture. You might not take much time to consider your feet and because you run, cycle, lift weights and generally move around without incident, believe that there is nothing to be bothered with.
Frequently in our treatment sessions, we are able to highlight potential issues and help you to prevent future problems.
Take time to exercise and stretch out your feet, there is a lot of absolutely amazing engineering within the foot and frankly you would be lost without them.