Massage by Paula Barratt

29/01/2025

29/01/2025

19/12/2024

20/11/2024

Now also trained in MSTR McLoughlin Scar Tissue Release. A scar technique to help normalise scar tissue, helping blood and lymph flow, addressing numbness or hypersensitivity, discomfort and physical and emotional pain. Surgical scars, scars through trauma or injury, all can benefit and improve range of movement.

15/01/2023

Sciatica or Sciatic Nerve Pain ⚡️

The sciatic nerve travels from the lower back through the hips and buttocks and down each leg. Sciatica most often occurs when a herniated disk or an overgrowth of bone puts pressure on part of the nerve. This causes inflammation, pain and often some numbness in the affected leg.

20/07/2022

THE HUMAN NERVAL SYSTEM IS AMAZING ⚡️

Picture credit: KÖRPERWELTEN

26/05/2022

Amazing plastination of the lateral neck muscles and superficial cervical plexus ⚡️

Credit: KÖRPERWELTEN

08/04/2022

08/04/2022

Carpal tunnel syndrome occurs when scar tissue or micro-trauma cause a narrowing and constricting of the carpal tunnel. This passageway is formed from the retinaculum of the wrist and the carpal bones on the palmar side of the wrist, and it acts as a conduit for tendons that help attach to the forearm and help move the fingers, and the median nerve. The median nerve gives feeling to the thumb, index and middle fingers, and half of the ring finger. It also controls the movement of the small muscles at the base of the thumb. Take a look at the link to find out more https://buff.ly/3qrJc82

18/12/2021

Knee Valgus influence on foot, hip and pelvis

18/12/2021

WHY YOUR FOOT ARCHES ARE SO IMPORTANT

Proper arch mechanics allow for shock absorption when we walk. This requires the right amounts of both pronation and supination in the same step. We contact the ground in a supinated position and immediately pronate. This pronation increases the mobility of the foot to absorb the shock of your steps.

If you don't pronate, such as with a high arched foot you cannot dissipate the shock. That shock will have to be taken on somewhere else. Often it is at the inside of the heel where it contributes to plantar fasciitis. Other times it travels up into the lower leg and causes shin splints.

If you overpronate, you repeatedly overstretch ↔ the plantar fascia, which can lead to tissue overload and pain. That motion will travel up the kinetic chain, internally rotating the knee and hip. This stresses the medial knee ligaments and meniscus, which just so happen to be the most common area to see degeneration. I wonder why? Internal rotation at the hip will also shut down the hip abductors, which are dynamic stabilizers of the hip and pelvis. This can lead to pain in the hip, SI joint, and low back. Noticing a trend yet?

The feet are the foundation of your entire body. If their mechanics are off, everything could be as well.

18/12/2021