Izzy Greaves Sports Therapy

20/06/2025

🧊 ICE BATHS: Recovery Tool or Progress Killer? 🧊

Ice baths can speed up recovery, but timing is everything. 🕒

✅ Use them when:

You need to reduce soreness quickly between back-to-back games, competitions, or intense training sessions.
You’re in a high-volume training phase and recovery is prioritized over long-term gains. Or on days off.

⚠️ Avoid them right after:

Strength training or hypertrophy sessions where muscle adaptation is the goal.
Workouts focused on building endurance or power.

💡 Cold exposure can blunt inflammation, which sounds good, but inflammation is part of how your body adapts and grows stronger.

🧠 Train smart: Use ice baths strategically, not automatically.

19/05/2025

Tips for reducing injuries in Athletic Children

Monitoring height in athletic children is important because growth spurts, especially rapid ones, can increase the risk of injury. Here's how and why to monitor height and what to watch for:

12/05/2025

Preparing for your Sports Massage- how to get the most out of your appointment

Whether you're pushing through intense workouts or recovering from a big race, sports massage is an essential tool for any active person. Not only does it help reduce muscle tension, improve circulation, and speed up recovery, but it’s also a great way to unwind and take care of your body.

23/04/2025

Sore feet? 🦶

Many of us have lost our control and function of our feet for reasons such as years of wearing narrow shoes, shoes with really padded soles and reduced time standing.

You should be able to spread all of your toes apart on both feet (toe splay) Sounds easy right? Give it a go now, then comment and let me know how you got on 👀!!

Improving our foot function can also reduce common running injuries such as:

🐾 Plantar Fasciitis
👣 Shin Splints
🥾 Ankle Sprains.

Want to improve your foot function? Here are a few things to try 👇🏼
** generic exercises not based upon a specific assessment of your biomechanics **

👉🏼 Toe Splays- practice spreading apart your toes.
👉🏼 Piano Toes- Big toe pressed into the floor and lift toes, then switch. Increase the speed in which you can do this.
👉🏼 Midfoot Banded Side Step- a band around the middle of your feet, step one foot out to the side and bring back maintaining an arch in your standing foot and tension on the band.
🙌🏼 Manual Therapy such as massage and joint mobilisations can also really help to mobilise your feet and reduce tension to help complete exercises.

10/04/2025

Isn’t the news of Worcester Warriors returning so exciting!!? 💙💛⚔️

Working in professional sport taught me a lot, fast paced environments, top-level athletes, and pressure to get people back on the pitch or out to training quickly and safely.

But here’s the thing, those same skills are exactly what help me treat everyday people even better.

Whether you’re dealing with a gym issue, sitting at a desk too long, or just want to move better- I bring that same level of care, precision, and performance mindset to you.

You don’t have to be a pro to be treated like one.

06/02/2025

Preparing for a Sports Massage: A Fitness Enthusiast’s Guide.

07/01/2025

Tips if you're planning to start exercising in 2025

https://mailchi.mp/1704a25cfc33/wanting-a-fitter-and-healthier-2025

31/12/2024

That’s me done for 2024 ✅

Thank you to every person that has booked in this year, recommend to a friend, left a review, or liked a post.
It’s really meant a lot, especially as this is my first year going fully self employed!!

Wishing you all happy and healthy new years
Here’s to continuing to grow the business in 2025! 🍾

Appointments are up online for January and February.

13/12/2024

Day off and we’ve posted our letters to Father Christmas 🎅🏼.

A fully booked January clinic please big man! 🎁 🤣

20/10/2024

Here are a few different ways to improve your recovery following a longer run:

Sports Drink to replace electrolytes. 🧋
High carb meal to replenish glycogen stores.🌯
Stretching 🧘🏼‍♀️
Warm Epsom salt bath 🛁
or cold water submersion 🧊
Good night sleep. 😴

Any that you would add?