Podium Therapies

11/10/2025

It's Podium party quiz marking time!!!

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Stay tuned to see who's won!!!

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10/10/2025

👉 Therapeutic Massage vs Competition Massage: What are our definitions?

The General Council for Massage Therapies (GCMT) affirms its support for the diversity of massage applications within therapeutic interactions in complementary healthcare and promotes massage practice that is evidence-informed, collaborative, and client-focused.

Public competitions and showcase events however are typically structured as time sensitive exhibitions, often conducted in busy public venues and assessed primarily on practitioner performance and presentation.

While such events may provide a platform to demonstrate individual skills and techniques, they do not replicate the clinical conditions of therapeutic practice, where the client is the central focus.

Outdated, technique-driven and therapist-dominated approaches to treatment, undermine the modern scientific perspective which emphasises therapeutic alliance, contextual factors, and the client’s beliefs, values, and expectations.

The GCMT recognises that while participation in such events may provide opportunities for self-appraisal, feedback, or reflective learning, Continuous Professional Development (CPD) is most effective when it moves beyond a purely technique-focused approach.

The GCMT remains committed to ensuring that CPD is grounded in current evidence and underpinned by collaborative, client-centred principles. It does not endorse public massage competitions as a model of therapeutic practice or as a gateway to teaching CPD.

👉 Definitions from a GCMT perspective

➡️ Therapeutic massage: A professional healthcare service delivered in safe, confidential, and client-focused environments with care that is mutually agreed towards achieving meaningful therapeutic outcomes

➡️ Competition Massage: A performance-based demonstration typically conducted within trade or showcase events and centred on exhibition and judging criteria

10/10/2025

October and November dates for your diary! Special Saturday appointments available!

Please book direct with Sheree as these will not be available online...

07540864380 or sheree@podiumtherapies.co.uk

Book around October half term, and Christmas dates now! Get your treatment booked in!

09/10/2025

Important dates for your diary! - https://mailchi.mp/729b31ac05e0/important-dates-for-your-diary

08/10/2025

Wishing all the very best at the XXII ITF Tae Kwon-Do World Championships this week!

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Today Tom, who is captain of the 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Welsh team, starts in the team patterns event against Greece.

wishing you a fantastic competition, bring home the golds Tom & team Wales!!!

As part of the 10th anniversary Podium Therapies celebrations, Tom was awarded 'Top Athlete' for all his achievements, through injuries and training hard, Tom always comes out on top! Keep at it Tom!

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07/10/2025

Loving all my cards and flowers thank you!

07/10/2025

I'm sure this post will make me unpopular amongst some massage therapists, but 'Massage championships', It needs to stop!

Clients judge massage internally, so how can a judge, judge a massage externally. Just because it looks like a therapist can dance a tai chi dance around a bed or dance on top of someone as a spectacle!

I come from a highly competitive background and have competed for my country numerous times, trust me, I'm competitive but in the right circumstances!

Sugeons dont have competitions, they have research studies and are judged on that. Why should we be any different!

Be in our industry for the clients wellbeing & progress, not your competitive desparate nature of wanting to win something for the wrong reasons!

👉 Therapeutic Massage vs Competition Massage: What are our definitions?

The General Council for Massage Therapies (GCMT) affirms its support for the diversity of massage applications within therapeutic interactions in complementary healthcare and promotes massage practice that is evidence-informed, collaborative, and client-focused.

Public competitions and showcase events however are typically structured as time sensitive exhibitions, often conducted in busy public venues and assessed primarily on practitioner performance and presentation.

While such events may provide a platform to demonstrate individual skills and techniques, they do not replicate the clinical conditions of therapeutic practice, where the client is the central focus.

Outdated, technique-driven and therapist-dominated approaches to treatment, undermine the modern scientific perspective which emphasises therapeutic alliance, contextual factors, and the client’s beliefs, values, and expectations.

The GCMT recognises that while participation in such events may provide opportunities for self-appraisal, feedback, or reflective learning, Continuous Professional Development (CPD) is most effective when it moves beyond a purely technique-focused approach.

The GCMT remains committed to ensuring that CPD is grounded in current evidence and underpinned by collaborative, client-centred principles. It does not endorse public massage competitions as a model of therapeutic practice or as a gateway to teaching CPD.

👉 Definitions from a GCMT perspective

➡️ Therapeutic massage: A professional healthcare service delivered in safe, confidential, and client-focused environments with care that is mutually agreed towards achieving meaningful therapeutic outcomes

➡️ Competition Massage: A performance-based demonstration typically conducted within trade or showcase events and centred on exhibition and judging criteria

06/10/2025

Thank you for a fabulous weekend! - https://mailchi.mp/1250e0151cc8/thank-you-for-a-fabulous-weekend

05/10/2025

Big shout out and lovely to see two clients running today at the .medical.aesthetics and
After injuries and niggles you finished fabulously!

Well done guys!

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Rest those legs and see you back for a massage!

05/10/2025

Lovely to treat and tape up a niggly knee pre this morning! Running for two amazing charities and .charity

Well done Emily! Just keep running!!!

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05/10/2025

Today the celebrations continue but this time by giving back to charity...

Last time we almost raided £500 for massaging pre event and post event!

Based in the athletes event village on green for the

So far it's been none stop knee taping, shoulder taping and pre event leg flushes!
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05/10/2025

Cardiff half marathon today with pre and post event massage for amazing runners. Here supporting at
with their fabulous team! And the sunshine has returned!