MMM started life as lone practitioner Nicki Mansfield - a Remedial Soft Tissue Therapist who graduated from the London School of Sports Massage in 2011. For the first few years Nicki worked hard to build a loyal client base out of her treatment room in St Ives, Cambridgeshire, and a chiropractic office in Ware, Hertfordshire. In 2016 the business expanded to a third location at a fantastic, lively gym in Dry Drayton, Cambridgeshire, and the practice was christened Field Massage and Movement.
The following year saw Nicki wave a fond farewell to the Hertfordshire arm of the practice so that she could focus her efforts on serving the people of Cambridgeshire. This dedication to her local area enabled Nicki to recruit some excellent team members so that, as of 2018, Nicki is a lone therapist no more!
Along the way, Nicki has continually supplemented her basic training with courses across the UK in specialised treatment techniques, biomechanical assessment and in-depth joint-specific studies.
A business name change in 2019 and two team therapists later, Mansfield Massage and Movement is now very proud to be restoring functional movement to the athletes, office workers, retirees, parents and school children of St Ives, Dry Drayton and everywhere in between!
Between us we are proud members of a number of professional institutions, including the Institute for Soft Tissue Therapists (ISRM), the Sports Therapy Organisation (STO) and the British Association of Sports Rehabilitators and Trainers (BASRaT), which monitor their members’ Continuing Professional Development (CPD) and the currency of their First Aid qualifications, so that you are guaranteed a safe, high quality service.
We are a team of manual therapists committed to helping you to achieve your goals. We are passionate about movement and really rather geeky when it comes to restoring function where it has been lost, be that through injury or through long-term postural deficiency. We look for dysfunction, use assessments and tests to investigate what is causing it and then put our wide skillset of joint and soft tissue release techniques to work to make specific changes to your musculoskeletal system in order to restore the function that has been lost. Once function is restored, movement is freer, easier and lighter. Your energy will return, your pain will dissipate and your strength will increase.
Put more simply (told you we’re a bit geeky!), we help you to move better so that you feel better and can do more!
Whether ‘more’ for you is to walk the kids to school and back without feeling stiff and achey, return to sports after an injury or surgery, achieve a new personal best at the gym or even go to a gym for the first time ever, we can help you to achieve it.
We all have bodies that we regularly put through the mill, regardless of how we use them on a daily basis, and most of us accept the aches and pains we feel without realising how, in the right hands, they can be simply and effectively addressed. And they really can.
By drawing on the wide range of advanced manual therapy techniques in which we each excel - by releasing, relaxing and reorganising the joint and soft tissue restrictions that we find - we can help you to overcome the physical obstacles that are blocking your way to succeeding in your chosen pursuit. The role that you play in your own improvement is as important as ours, of course, and so you can expect us to recommend exercises, stretches and postural changes for you to incorporate into your daily life, to strengthen and re-educate those areas of your body that need it.
Of course, you may not even realise that your body is under-performing. You may simply be experiencing pain. You may have had massages in the past and can recognise the feeling that it’s long overdue time you had another. Or you may have appealed to your GP about your ongoing back/neck/joint pain and have withstood as much ‘anti-inflammatories and rest’ as you are willing to put up with!
Whether you suffer from back ache, desk slump, stiff neck, tight shoulders or joint pain, or you feel that your body is holding you back from reaching the goals you want to reach, we can help you.
Most of us do not realise how good our body is supposed to feel because most of us stopped moving the way that we are designed to move long ago.
Move better. Feel better. Do more.
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