Sports Massage at The Healthy Practice

23/03/2026

Tension headaches, feeling stressed 💆🏽
Help yourself, book a deep tissue treatment. Let’s ease the muscles causing your tension headaches

🌟 Tension Headaches – 5 Key Points

Trigger / Stressor – Emotional stress, poor posture, eye strain, fatigue, or neck tension can activate pain pathways.

Muscle Tightening – Muscles in the scalp, neck, and shoulders contract and become tense.

Nerve Activation – Prolonged muscle tension stimulates pain-sensitive nerves in the head and neck.

Pain Perception – Brain perceives dull, tight, or pressure-like pain, often described as a “band around the head”.

Symptom Relief – Relaxation, stretching, massage, hydration, posture correction, and over-the-counter pain medication can reduce muscle tension and ease pain.

💡 Tip: Tension headaches are usually gradual in onset and related to muscle stress, unlike migraines, which have more neurological triggers.

10/03/2026

Vouchers now available, get yours before it’s too late

25/02/2026

Reflexology is amazing! My clients love this treatment. It’s very calming after you’ve had a sports massage ✨ 🙌

Why Reflexologists Around the World See the Same Results

Across the world, reflexologists report similar outcomes:
🔆 calmer nervous systems
🔆 improved sleep
🔆 better digestion
🔆 less pain
🔆 greater emotional ease

This consistency matters.
It shows that reflexology is not coincidence, it is a reliable, body-based therapy that supports people at every stage of life.

11/02/2026

Gift Vouchers Available, Another couple of great treatments.

02/02/2026

A bit of patience is needed with frozen shoulder. Being consistent with your exercises will also help 🙌

26/01/2026

Helping you to help yourself 🙌

People look at me some sort of way when I say I get a massage at least once a month — so let’s clear something up.

Massage is healthcare. Period.

It regulates the nervous system.
It lowers stress hormones.
It improves circulation and lymphatic flow.
It reduces chronic tension before it becomes chronic pain.
It supports sleep, digestion, hormones, posture, and mental clarity.

Most of what we’re walking around calling “normal” — tight shoulders, jaw pain, headaches, poor sleep, burnout — is a body that hasn’t been given a chance to release.

Touch is a biological need, not a luxury.
Maintenance is smarter than crisis care.
Prevention is still healthcare.

I don’t wait until my body is screaming to listen.
I don’t believe care has to hurt to count.
And I refuse to treat regulation like an indulgence.

Luxury is excess.
Massage is maintenance.

Treat yourself like someone you love — because that is healthcare.

I do not pay for or carry health insurance the way most people do. Massage is my assurance that my body can heal itself if I take care of her.

Get ahold of your local massage therapist and get ahold of your selfcare.

Massage therapists also take note that what you use on our skin, can multiply the benefits! Especially products like Mystical Mindset Medicinals

21/01/2026

“More than a gift — an experience.”

21/01/2026

Would you like a sports massage treatment Friday 11am?

last space, message me 07838271934 to book asap

04/01/2026

01/01/2026

A long post, but if you love this sort of real info like me, you’ll find it interesting! It’s all about the nervous system ✨🙌👍✨🙌👍✨

🩸 It’s not just a bruise—it’s a biological switch.

We’ve all seen the purple circles.

From Olympic swimmers to your favorite CrossFit coach, cupping therapy has been trending for years.

Most people assume it’s just for deep tissue release or pain relief.

But a groundbreaking 2025 study just completely changed how we look at those marks.

Researchers published their findings in PLOS ONE, focusing specifically on university baseball players.

They wanted to see if cupping did more than just loosen tight shoulders.

They split the athletes into groups: one received real "dry cupping" suction (-400 mmHg), and the other got a "sham" version with barely any pressure.

They measured them for 8 weeks during intense preseason conditioning.

The results were wild.

The athletes who got the real cupping didn’t just feel better.

Their bodies physically recovered faster at a nervous system level.

The study found that cupping significantly improved the recovery of the Autonomic Nervous System (ANS).

Specifically, it helped the athletes switch out of "Sympathetic" mode.

That’s your body’s "fight or flight" stress response—the state that burns energy and halts recovery.

And it switched them into "Parasympathetic" mode.

That’s the "rest and digest" state where actual growth and repair happen.

In the high-stress world of athletics, the ability to flip that switch quickly is the difference between burnout and a breakthrough.

So the next time you see those purple circles, don't just think "pain relief."

Think of them as a remote control for your nervous system. 🧠

References: Chen, C. L., & Tang, J. S. (2025). Effects of dry cupping on exercise, autonomic activity and sleep in baseball players during preseason and in-season conditioning. PLOS ONE, 20(2), e0319479.

01/01/2026

Rest & recover with us this January. Nothing beats a wonderful treatment then a restful sleep💤 ✨🙌

22/12/2025

If you’re popping in to buy a Christmas voucher, we’re happy to help — just check ahead so you don’t miss us.

The reception door may be closed between clients. Please phone ahead to ensure we are at reception