Balance Massage

21/07/2025

Beeswax food wraps production underway. Available to purchase at the clinic. Keeping life plastic free 🌿🐝

17/07/2025

I had a great tip from my hairdresser today for those that are struggling with winter.
When you get home from work or the end of your day, get a few candles out and enjoy the calming cosy vibes 🧡

18/06/2025

What is Lymphatic Drainage (Massage)?

Manual Lymphatic Drainage (MLD) is a gentle, non-invasive, manual technique that has a powerful effect on the body and body systems. Activating the lymphatic system’s cleansing process will indirectly affect organs such as the liver, kidneys and lungs, stimulating a detoxification process and boosting energy.
MLD is primarily used to promote the optimal functioning of the lymphatic vessels and to evacuate excess protein from around cells. It is an advanced therapy in which the practitioner uses a range of specialised and gentle rhythmic pumping techniques to move the skin in the direction of the lymph flow. The skin is stretched and torqued in a specific manner, based on scientific, physiological principles that have proven to encourage lymph flow. When performed correctly with the correct pressure, direction and speed, this can greatly enhance recovery and facilitate drainage.
Manual Lymphatic Drainage (MLD) helps by keeping the environments around the cells healthy and by stimulating the immune system function. Therefore, many conditions can be helped in some way by lymphatic treatment. It is primarily designed for treatment of Lymphoedema/Lypodema and other forms of fluid retention. Post-mastectomy/Post-hysterectomy, Sinusitis, Tinnitus, Tensions headaches, Migraines, Stress reduction, Chronic Pain, Sport recovery, Pregnancy relief, Strengthening of the immune system, Irritable bowel syndrome, Constipation, Fibromyalgia, Chronic fatigue.

The primary result from Manual Lymphatic Drainage is an increase of lymph flow, that speeds up the circulatory system. This technique will result in a reduction of oedema (swelling) or Lymphoedema. Depending on your condition, benefits generally include: Reduction of lymph oedema, Improved immune system health, Detoxification, Relaxation and energizing effects and Pain reduction (Chronic).

Book in with Shelley Bickerton

28/04/2025

It's a rare occasion when so many people cancel in one week for Lisa!
Take some time out for yourself and come in and enjoy some delicious aromas from the cute wee scented beeswax melts newly purchased 🍐🍉🍦💖

21/01/2025

20/05/2024

A weekend of Reiki training at The Sharda Centre, Tuakau.
I can now offer Reiki therapy if anyone is interested...watch this space! 🏵

13/03/2024

Special OFFER from Shelley for the weekends only up until the end of April....click and read for more info :-)

unusually quiet, which means for those of you who haven’t been able to find the right time to suit, now you have more options and don’t have to wait 4 weeks.

28/02/2024

We've had loads of cancellations today and tomorrow so if you feel like an end of week unwind and de-stress massage grab one now 🙏

13/02/2024

Maze is rocking the valentine's vibe today at the clinic, too darn cute! 🩷

09/02/2024

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WHY DO KNUCKLES CRACK... and is it Safe?

“What’s known with certainty is that the cracking happens when the space between joints is increased, by bending or pulling. This creates a pressure vacuum within the synovial fluid, as it’s called, and dissolved gases form an air bubble. What scientists don’t know is whether the sound is caused by the bubbles forming or collapsing.

Problem is, it’s hard to get inside a knuckle and watch what’s happening, but researchers did the best they could in a 2015 study, using an MRI machine. They concluded that the pop is made by air rushing into a cavity, forming a bubble.

Another group of scientists, using a mathematical model in 2017, argued that the collapse of a bubble would produce a sound consistent with what we actually hear.

Either way, the air bubbles help explain why most people can’t usually crack the same joint twice without a delay: The air must build back up (or dissolve back out, depending on which explanation is correct). There’s also room in all this for a partial crack, scientists say, which sometimes allows for a second cracking right away.

THE BRAIN SEEMS TO GET A KICK OUT OF IT

The force produced by these bubbles may activate sensory receptors in the joint, which some experts believe causes the satisfaction people derive from cracking their knuckles,” says Branden Daubel, physical therapist in UT Health Austin’s Musculoskeletal Institute. “These receptors send information about where your joint is in space to your brain, and your brain gives you a little hit of dopamine because it loves information.”

BUSTING THE ARTHRITIS MYTH

Importantly, and contrary to what Mom said, knuckle cracking does not seem to cause arthritis. A large study way back in 1975 found no greater risk for arthritis in older people who were lifelong, habitual knuckle-crackers. The finding was confirmed by a smaller 2011 study.

One study is hands-down the most interesting, however. Donald Unger, MD, conducted his own 50-year-long experiment. At least twice a day, he cracked the knuckles of his left hand only—more than 36,000 times in all, as described by Steve Mirsky in Scientific American. Then Unger published a study on the results in 1998, indicating that he’d suffered no arthritis, and there were no noticeable visible differences in his two hands.

As long as knuckle cracking doesn’t cause you pain, there's no reason to worry, says Alexander Soneru, MD, an orthopedic surgeon with Loyola Medicine.

“Parents frequently tell me that their child cracks their knuckles,” Soneru notes. “I tell them that they may not like the sound, but they shouldn’t worry about negative effects, such as arthritis, down the road.” Robert Britt

HOW DO YOU THINK THIS RESEARCH APPLIES TO OTHER SYNOVIAL JOINTS?

18/12/2023

Little treat for the team at work today shhhhh 🎄🤶