SAS Sport and Remedial Massage

15/06/2025

15/06/2025

More pictures - Hampshire Hoppit

15/06/2025

Helping the lovely Vicki and her crew out today - Massaging at Hampshire Hoppit - Trail Run.

17/05/2025

Good advice 😃

16/03/2025

Come join us at Fleet Half Marathon for post event massage. 🎽🏃🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️👟💨

27/01/2025

Fabulous Talk and Evidence to show why and how effective Pilates can be as part of your running programme.

09/01/2025

Positive Information supporting Sports Massage

We're excited to share insights from a recent study that compared classical and sports massage using shear-wave elastography.

Both styles were found to reduce muscle stiffness in the erector spinae and upper trapezius muscles. However, sports massage, which employs deeper pressure, showed a more significant effect.

For therapists, this research highlights the importance of choosing the right massage technique based on client needs. Deeper pressure might be better for those with severe muscle tension, while classical massage can still offer great relief for milder issues.

✨ Full study available to SMA members in the latest Research Review.

05/01/2025

Good and positive results showing massage can help

Short-Term Massage: Boosting Muscle Recovery

A recent study looked into how different massage techniques impact the contractile properties of the re**us femoris muscle after it's been fatigued.

✨ Both manual and vibro-mechanical massages showed impressive results, helping muscles recover and bringing contractile properties back to normal levels.

❌ On the other hand, percussive tools and passive rest didn’t provide much benefit.

For therapists, this emphasises the importance of hands-on techniques and vibro-mechanical methods for aiding recovery, especially for clients engaged in high-intensity activities.

The full study is available to SMA members in the latest Research Review

22/12/2024

Merry Christmas 🎁⛄🎄🦌 to all my wonderful past, present and to future clients. Thank you for supporting my small business. More slots will be available in 2025 as I branch out completely on my own. 🦌🎄⛄🎁🍾🥂🎁⛄

11/12/2024

Eek 2 weeks until Christmas 🎁🎄🎁🎄🎁🎄🎁🎄🎁 Gift 🧧 Vouchers available for your friends and family if wanted. initial Consultation, 90, 60 or 45 Minutes.
More availability come January 2025 with me too ☺️ Merry Christmas 🎄🎁🦌⛄

10/12/2024

Through being lucky enough to work with numerous Physios over the past two years this is certainly something I have learnt from them. In particular Jo Clyne.

Each month I see “new” patients that really aren’t new.

They’ve been struggling with a tendon issue, usually Achilles or Patella, for a considerable time.

They can recall multiple treatments that they’ve received, all helped a bit, But nothing has really changed the playing field and got them back in the game so to speak.

Most of the time the real issue is a lack of progressive loading to the tendon which is a necessity for tendon rehab.

They may have been the right things at a certain point, particularly at the start, bodyweight only or isometric holds for example, but they’ve simply not been progressed enough to make that real change, or not been performed for long enough consistently (tendons need at last 12 weeks loaded rehab).

So the take homes are:

1. Many treatments can calm the symptoms of tendon pain down, but most wont help build the tendon back up.

2. Tendons need to be loaded, progressively, consistently for a long period.

3. The main error in most “failed” tendon rehab is a failure to do this and/or a return to normal activity simply because the symptoms have been eased.