Sally Diamond - Sports Massage & Holistic Therapist

30/08/2025

Hi everyone
Please note that I am on holiday from 1st September to 15th September.

Please feel free to message me and I will reply on my return.

I have several things in the pipeline which hopefully will be available by the end of the year and I will be posting about these when I come back from my holiday.

In the meantime I hope the weather is kind to you all whilst I am away basking in 33* in Rhodes!

Sally x

Hi everyone Please note that I am on holiday from 1st September to 15th September. Please feel free to message me and I will reply on my return. I have several things in the pipeline which hopefully will be available by the end of the year and I will be posting about these when I […]

17/03/2025

I would very much like to thank everyone for your continued support and patronage which is always very much appreciated. You have all helped my business grow and enabled me to continue to do the job that I love with a passion.

Sadly though, due to the current economic climate, I am finding it very hard to keep my prices at the rate they have been for the last two years.

Similar to many other businesses, I am experiencing continuous rising overheads and product price increases and, although it pains me greatly, I am having to implement a 10% price increase across the board for all treatments effective from April 1st 2025.

I am so sorry about this and ask for your understanding and truly hope that I can continue to see you at the salon.

Fondest wishes,

Sally

I would very much like to thank everyone for your continued support and patronage which is always very much appreciated. You have all helped my business grow and enabled me to continue to do the job that I love with a passion. Sadly though, due to the current economic climate, I am finding it very [...

17/03/2025

PRICE INCREASE FROM 1ST APRIL 2025

I would like to thank my clients for your continued support. It is very much appreciated. You have helped my business to grow and given me the confidence to succeed but also to do a job that I love.

Due to the economic climate I am finding it increasingly hard to keep my prices at the current level.

I have tried not to raise them and for the last two years have succeeded. However, due to rising overheads and product prices I am now having to increase them.

The new prices will start at from 1st April 2025 and will be a generic 10% across the board.

I thank you for your understanding and continued support and I look forward to seeing you in the future.

Sally

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10/09/2024

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14/04/2024

When your client buys you a book that strangely has your name as the title! ❤️ ❤️

01/02/2024

I like so many people absolutely love the sun. I find it healing, I love to have a bit of colour because it makes me feel better and of course we all need a certain amount of vitamin D. I am also the typical pale skin, freckly girl with blue eyes whose skin doesn’t tan easily.

My earlier years of a mis-spent youth on Camber Sands beach along with other holidays saw me go from white to pink to occasionally bright red to beige – desperate to get a tan. Not thinking about the consequences because at that age its a long way away!

Now in my later years I do actually get a pretty decent tan with skin that has weathered many years of abuse. Including the use of sunbeds – convincing myself that I only use them before I go abroad to get a base tan.

I always use sunscreen abroad, perhaps I haven’t always been as good as putting it on over here if I just pop out, but I always thought that as I had got older my skin protection was pretty good.

However – and this is what I want to get across to you – in the space of a year I have found by chance two completely innocuous patches on both shoulders and one on my left arm.

The first one in May 2023 looked just like a spot but not. It seemed to appear from nowhere and within weeks of me seeking it it turned into a dry sore patch – no bigger than the size of my little fingernail. BUT something in the back of my mind knew it wasn’t quite right. I got a friend to take a picture of it and when I enlarged it I knew straightaway that this was not a normal dry patch.

I nervously went straight to my GP who agreed with me and I was put on a two week pathway for suspected melanoma. Within a week I had seen my GP, then a dermatologist and then referred to another dermatologist to have it removed urgently.

The actual removal was fine. Local anaesthetic and within 20 minutes it was cut out leaving a decent size scar to encompass the “margins” that they have to take to make sure they get everything. I then had a 2 week wait to find out if was the melanoma they thought it could be. That was worse than the procedure. All the horror stories that you hear and of course google led to a few sleepless nights.

After 2 weeks the results arrived and what a relief – it was a Basal Cell Carcinoma. Completely benign. They don’t spread and all the margins were clear including my lymph cells.

I felt like I had been given a second chance. I knew that sunbeds were a massive no no and I also knew that Factor 50 would be my ‘norm’ for sunscreen. I knew that I would need to be careful of the times I was actually out in the sun and make sure I sat in the shade at its highest point. Of course I also thought that this would mean I would be pale for the rest of my life so fake tan was becoming a fabulous option.

I went abroad a couple of times last year and I was a reformed character!! I had the best tan I had ever had. It has lasted for a while too. All using Factor 50 relentlessly. Sitting in the shade for a lot of the time.

Although I have since found two more of these patches, again purely by luck – they have just been removed. Skin cancer is in my family so I know I will now have to be religious at checking anything I think is unusual.

My message to everyone is please, please, please think about your use if any of sunbeds, your time in the sun and the cream you are using. Especially if your skin type is like mine. I caught all of mine early and purely by chance. If you have anything that you are slightly concerned about the doctors are only too happy to check them for you. I was lucky because they were Basal Cell and also caught early. I dont know how I would have been if they had been Melanomas.

I have uploaded the pictures I took so you can see just how small and innocent they looked and also how they looked when enlarged – all taken on my phone.

Please rest assured that if you come to see myself for treatments I am always on the lookout for lumps and bumps and am now getting enrolled onto a course so that I can recognise more easily anything out of the ordinary but you can also do this for each other. Just every now and again, check each other’s backs, legs etc that you can’t do for yourself.

You never know – it could just save your life!!

01/02/2024

Yes, its that time again! Traditional red roses, wining and dining..... or would you like something slightly different?

Why not treat your loved one to a gorgeous facial, a relaxing massage or for the sporty ones an hours sports massage!

Gift vouchers can be purchased from myself for various amounts for that special person in your life. If you are purchasing for a facial then why not add an extra gift of some of the products that I use during the facial treatment. They are amazing!

The lucky recipients of a valentine gift will receive a mini bottle of Prosecco and mini box of chocolates to enjoy at their leisure.

04/09/2023

Hello my lovely clients and friends. This is to let you know that as of today I'm now on holiday until 17 September.. back at work on the 18th. Please feel free to message me if need be although I might not be able to answer until I get back.

Enjoy the heatwave.. stay safe ... use sunscreen ... see you all soon.

Sally xx

01/08/2023

Thankyou so much to all of your comments and likes regarding my move to a new work home. I'm very nervous but excited .. so thankyou for your messages etc with your support. X

01/08/2023

After 10 fabulous years working alongside the wonderful people at the Kent Sports Injury & Physiotherapy Clinic, the time has come for me to spread my wings and venture out on my own.

This has been a very hard decision for me to make mostly down to the Clinic’s formidable owner, Kyle Blackburn. Kyle has been an amazing teacher and mentor over the years and it has been a privilege and honour to work alongside him, learning from him each day, and for that I will always be truly grateful. Thank you Kyle. KSIP will continue to be my first-choice referral clinic for all clients requiring further advanced physiotherapy treatment.

I’m pleased to report I’m not going too far away as my lovely new self-contained studio is only a few miles down the road on the Haven Farm complex on North Street in Sutton Valence, just along from the Post Office. (Full location details on my contact page on my website.) I have a waiting area with free WiFi, a beautiful new therapy room with en-suite facilities and of course the all-important free car parking.

I hope you will love my new space as much as I do, and I really look forward to inviting you to share in this new venture with me and for you to continue to enjoy the treatments and benefits I so enjoy bringing to you.

See you very soon….

Sally