I also specialise in clinical rehabilitation for people who are not necessarily sporty, but who still want to move better, feel stronger and understand what their body needs.
Together with the client's history and thoughts, I consider what their individual issues and needs may be from a holistic, integrated and functional perspective. This means looking at the whole person, not just a symptom or a group of symptoms.
Asking questions like:
- Why is this structure under pressure?
- What does their brain think is happening?
As a massage therapist, I help facilitate pain management and reduction, while encouraging further inquiry and understanding of how a client's body and brain sees and reacts to what is happening.
I do this through soft tissue massage, working on muscles, tendons and ligaments to encourage them to release, realign and stretch.
Maintaining Progress
Building changes that last
Being a JEMS Practitioner, I hope to encourage clients to become more self-supporting.
The aim is to help clients incorporate the principles of efficient movement and take useful exercise ideas into their everyday lives, so they can maintain the changes they make.
By reinforcing their choices and experiences, we can help keep them pain-free, encourage them to be more active, and support the quality of life they want.
How I Can Help
Support for everyday aches, pain and movement issues
Relief from chronic tension
Chronic tension can build through tearing, over-use or overloading of a muscle over many months, or even years, before pain is felt. Sports massage can help break down scar tissue or adhesions which may have reduced or limited contracting and stretching.
Relief from muscle imbalance
Muscle imbalance can result from over-use and repetitive muscle activity, including RSI. This may come from occupational, postural, emotional or sporting situations, and can be linked to bone structure, habitual movement patterns and dominance.
Relief from joint pain
Joint pain can occur when muscle imbalance continues over time. This imbalance may cause instability, and joints can become the place where weakness or strain begins to show its effects.
Client Experience
Helen has changed my life. For endless months I was struggling with back pain, due to the nature of my work (a gardener!). I had been to other professionals for help, nothing helped. When I met Helen, I felt seen and heard. She did not just 'do the massage and say bye', she explained why I was having the issues and how to overcome them. I have worked really hard on the plan Helen created for me, and I am much stronger physically and mentally, and most of all - pain free. I catch myself smiling a lot more, happier in my life everyday since I met Helen. I can't thank her enough.