Port’s Massage Therapy

09/04/2025

☀️☀️☀️Taking bookings from 16th April to 14th May. ☀️☀️☀️.

24/12/2024

🎄 Merry Xmas & A Happy New Year to all clients. Thank you for your kindness & support. 🎄

Appointments available until mid January.

10/10/2024

13/04/2024

Massage of any kind is so beneficial. 🙌

More consensual touch helps ease or buffer against mental and physical complaints, meta-analysis shows

23/12/2023

🤶 Have a lovely Xmas one and all and a peaceful New Year. 🤶

14/09/2023

Sometimes true! Massage can cause inflammation, especially if the therapist is very heavy-handed or the session has overworked the tissue.

I think of massage as a form of passive exercise for the muscles, it promotes local blood flow and can warm and soften the area, replacing adhesive qualities with more functional movement.

Inflammation is in fact the body's healing response, but it is only meant to be temporary.

A good rule of thumb when clients are considering if the massage = was successful there should be a sense of change, maybe more freedom of movement, or less discomfort, but there shouldn't be any bruising or pain. I frequently hear therapists tell me, "My client wants to feel pain otherwise they don't think it was deep enough, or good enough."

Pain is a teacher, one of its teaches us about danger, when we are in pain the body is telling it wants us to stop an action, so it is up to us to educate our clients about what good depth feels like, it can be deep, such that it meets the need and the client goes away happy, but we need to stop beating up the body, we need to work with it and be led by the response we 'feel'.

20/04/2023

Definitely worth a read folks. ❤️

You might be surprised to know that we are all walking around with cancer cells but under normal circumstances, our immune system is able to cope, recognise the problem and remove it.

When we receive a diagnosis of cancer it can be incredibly scary but no one is exempt from malformed cells such as cancer. Our immune system can cope with these guys in low numbers, but sometimes due to several reasons such as environmental or lifestyle conditions cancer cells are given the green light to proliferate.

There are some conditions that are not modifiable, in other words, things we cannot change like genetics but most reasons behind the occurrence can be modified. Prevention is definitely the way to go, we can all look at our lifestyle and probably make some changes that would benefit our health.

I consider regular massage a health benefit so I actually get regular monthly massages, I think we all need to practice what we preach.

My diet is another area I concentrate on, I am continually amazed by others' impressions of what that looks like. If it comes in a package, there are words listed in the ingredients I do not understand or it contains sugar it does not go into my shopping cart. Full stop!

Moderate exercise is exactly that, the best form of exercise does not require you to beat yourself up, choose things you enjoy, like walking, gardening, and swimming, these are all suitable forms of activity. I recommend if you take up an activity that you look forward to, you are more likely to stick to it.

These are but a few examples of how to improve your lifestyle that will benefit your health, a few others discussed in my oncology course are sleep, laughter, and emotional well-being. All of these examples are an important part of the homecare we can offer as part of our service.

Find out more about my Oncology Massage practical workshop: https://www.susanfindlay.co.uk/oncology/

24/01/2023

Folks I am unavailable until further notice, thank you for your custom & look after yourselves. See you soon, Paula ❤️

23/12/2022

A big Christmassy hug to all my wonderful clients. Have a relaxing & restorative Xmas and look after your health & well-being. Paula 🤗