Cornwall Clinical Massage

23/03/2025

‼️Is your body struggling to recover from intense training?

‼️Have you got a stubborn ni**le threatening to disrupt your training goals?

‼️Have you recently sustained a soft tissue injury such as a strain, sprain or tendinopathy?

‼️Is a pain preventing you from doing what you love?

Soft Therapy can help you with recovery without having to stop you doing what you love.
This includes advice on movement and exercises- and where appropriate a rehabilitation plan with easy strengthening activities.

Benefits:

• Pain relief
• Identification of contributing factors
• Movement confidence
• Recovery optimisation
• Safe return to activity
• Prevention of re-occurrence

Want to find out more?
Book in for your treatment:

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14/02/2025

Made me chuckle….

20/11/2024

Evidence supporting why I go on and on and on about breath work to reduce tension 🙃

Breath and Emotion Connected by Newly Identified Brain Circuit

Researchers have discovered a brain circuit connecting the anterior cingulate cortex, pons, and medulla that links voluntary breathing control to emotional states.

This circuit slows breathing during calm moments and accelerates it under anxiety, offering a neurological basis for practices like yoga and mindfulness.

Experiments in mice revealed that activating this circuit reduced anxiety and slowed breathing, while deactivating it increased stress and breathing rates.

23/09/2024

Some « light reading » prior to a training course I’ve been keen to attend for ages!
And it’s coming to Cornwall very soon🙌
If you’ve had treatment with me you’ll know I already very much work along those lines to reduce my clients’ discomfort and tension. This is the next step in understanding more about how the cutaneous nerves can be manipulated to provide lasting pain relief to particular structures.

DNM is a structured and interactive approach to Manual Therapy considering the nervous system of the patient and interacting with the nerves found in the skin to provide lasting pain

My fibromyalgia and chronic back /neck pain clients will particularly benefit from this integrated approach.

26/07/2024

Every 4 years, I am reminded of what this formidable woman that was my grandmother, achieved for women competing in international gymnastics.
She revolutionised International Female Gymnastics at Olympic level.
Born and growing up in a very deprived environment, she lost her husband and one of her three boys at a young age.
She fought in in the French Resistance during WW2 and later dedicated her life to women in gymnastics.
This led her to be honoured with the highest French presidential honour and posthumously in the .
This did not happen without sacrificing family life and friendships. She was not perfect, but she fought for what she believed in.

https://www.gymnastics-history.com/2021/10/1968-villanchers-commentary-on-the-womens-code-of-points/ -966

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13/06/2024

A rare run( in the pouring rain !) with the 🧡of my life.
After finally getting in top of her lameness thanks to the amazing care received at we are now having to deal with cognitive dysfunction which is affecting her sight and behaviour.
She still looks beautiful but her mind is going which is heartbreaking.
On a positive note, she still loves her walks, swims, cuddles and peanut butter covered licky mats 🙃
As with humans, exercise, mental stimulation, nutrition and stress management, all contribute to aging as well as possible and living an active and happy life for longer.

11/06/2024

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I usually leave people to see my reviews on Google rather than posting them on here. However I wanted to share this as this lady drove over an hour to see me yesterday as she could not find anyone near her.
After treatment and conscious that sitting in the car for hours isn’t that great when you’re in pain, I recommended a colleague closer to her, and emailed her with the details this morning.

Wanting to genuinely help people even if that means you may miss out on a few bookings is 100% the right ethos. In my view anyway.
Obviously I am delighted she wants to carry on with me, but she’s been given a choice and made her decision based on what she feels works for her rather than be told she needs to come back to me to get better.
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25/05/2024

Supporting Love my office today 😍
First finishers expected shortly so looks like a new course record 💪

21/05/2024

‼️Soft Tissue Therapy for persistant pain‼️

⭐️Have you been in pain for over 3 months ?
⭐️Have you seen several health practitioners and been on different kinds of pain relief?
⭐️Have you not been able to make sense of why you are in such discomfort?
⭐️Is your discomfort preventing you from doing what you love?
⭐️ Has this affected your mood and/or sleep?

Soft Tissue Therapy can help make sense of the causes contributing to your persistant pain and provide the much needed relief and reassurance both you and your body need.

Please get in touch if you’d like to find out more about this.

15/04/2024

⭐️BACK PAIN⭐️

I have a number of clients who have come in with recurrent or persistant back pain, having struggled on and off for years.
More often than not 1 or 2 Soft Tissue Therapy Sessions have been enough to get them moving more comfortably and feeling more confident in their bodies’ resilience, without having to come back for regular treatment.

My approach to care :
Thorough subjective & objective consultation, medical history and client expectation.

🚫No talk about posture
🚫No talk about wonky pelvises
🚫No talk about disc bulges
🚫No talk about leg length

Because it is mostly irrelevant in long term or chronic pain.
Negative perception of a “weak” or “ damaged” body is proven to feed pain signals.

Instead

✅ Helping them see how strong their body actually is
✅ Explaining why pain signals do not necessarily reflect tissue damage
✅ Why persistent back pain is usually due to a combination of factors which we can make sense of together
✅ REASSURANCE

What we do:

⭐️Relax the Nervous System
⭐️Relax the Tissues which are causing discomfort
⭐️Improve your Range of Motion
⭐️Support you in moving better
⭐️Reduce your Discomfort
⭐️Work as a Team - Therapeutic Alliance
⭐️Ensure your lifestyle choices support your recovery

Empathy, support, advanced manual therapy skills and evidence based narratives are key factors in my approach to care.

If you have been struggling with long term back pain, please get in touch. I’d love to help.

25/03/2024

Lovely case study, where I was asked to look at a young athlete who was experiencing knee pain.

I do not specialise in kids and only deal in Minor Soft Tissue Injuries, so followed a rigorousl process which would help me determine whether I could help or whether I should refer her to a qualified physiotherapist.

⭐️ Check for Red Flags which would indicate something more serious
⭐️ Have a chat about the behaviour of her pain, and how it affects her
⭐️Assess her pain free active and passive range of movement in hip, knee and ankle.
⭐️Establish her training volume and progression over the last 12 week prior to symptoms

I concluded it was a case of “ Too Much Too Soon after Not Doing Enough for Too Long”

We looked at how we could keep her running without aggravating her ni**les, and how to help her strengthen the tissues around her knee joint so she could deal with the increase in running load.

Add, determination, positivity, and a bit of funky tape and we’re onto a winner 🙌

She’s had a fantastic season so far and understands how to listen to her body and adapt accordingly. More importantly she can carry on doing what she loves ❤️

14/03/2024

‼️Pregnancy massage‼️
Is a safe and natural way of easing your aches and pains. It is a little time for you to relax and unwind and let someone look after your body.
Endorphins and happy hormones will benefit your baby as much as you.

Our pregnancy pillow enables you to safely lie on your front & relax ❤️

‼️BENEFITS‼️
❤️Relaxation and Pain relief
❤️Improved sleep and digestion
❤️Tension release in shoulders, neck and back
❤️Beneficial for baby too
❤️Improved mood and energy