Fabiola Velasquez, Massage Therapist & Sports Massage Practitioner.

· Stretching Techniques

· Deep Tissue Techniques

· Neuromuscular Techniques

· Acupressure Techniques.

Background.

Since childhood, I have had the privilege of being in contact with people who practise traditional Massage Therapies and Alternative Medicine. My mother and grandmothers transmitted to me this ancestral knowledge that is a heritage of the Mapuche indigenous people of Southern Chile.

All the Alternative Medicine practices that I learned from my mother and grandmothers have enriched my understanding of health and my training as an adult. I have trained in the UK as a Sports Massage Therapy – which requires the study of Anatomy, Physiology, and complex applications of Western medicine. I believe that the combination of my ancestral knowledge with my modern scientific education has given me many tools that I can use for the benefit of the health and well–being of others.

Professional experience.

I have worked in the field of Massage Therapy for over 8 years. I have had the opportunity to work in South America (Chile, Argentina), England and Greece.

Working in different countries has given me a diversity of experience which has helped me develop the techniques and skills necessary to work with different types of people.

In England, I worked for 2 years in my private practice and also as a Sports Massage Therapist for the organisation Hands On "physical therapies and wellbeing". I treated people who practise sports regularly, such as climbing, tennis, swimming, running, cycling, football and rugby.

For a period of a year, I was the Sports Massage Therapist of a well- known fitness instructor Pilo Selguera Peso, also Director of PILOEXERCISE Ltda.in Bristol, UK.

In the Greek island of Lesvos, I worked for 3 years, offering massage treatment to tourists and locals. This period was of great professional enrichment because I had the opportunity to treat the injuries, and muscular dysfunctions of local people labouring hard on the fields and olive groves.

Treatment cases included:

1) Calcific tendonitis in the shoulder (rotator cuff calcific tendonitis),

2)Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy, which is a condition that causes pain, "burning" skin sensation, discoloration, tenderness, swelling, and vasomotor dysfunction of an extremity and is often the result of trauma or a surgery.