Kate Green Soft Tissue Therapist

19/03/2025

Kate Green and Mark Marshall are fundraising to support the Chilterns Neuro Centre. We are participating in the Leptos Cyprus International 4-Day Challenge from 27 to 30 November 2025.

An adventurous and challenging running event with four different races taking place over 4 days.

The event combines a 6k time trial, an 11k mountain trail run, a multi-terrain half marathon distance and a 10k City Run over the four days.

We are both looking forward to raising money to support the Chilterns Neuro Centre, where Kate's brother has been undergoing comprehensive rehabilitation since his stroke in June 2023.

If you would like to support us, please donate as much or as little as you can spare. Thank you.

Help Kate Green raise money to support Chilterns Neuro Centre

12/09/2024

One of my clients made these penguins like my logo. How cool is that!!!

12/02/2024

At the end of this month I will be producing material about injury prevention for runners for my running club. Watch this space as I am going to share it here. Keep on running!!!

12/02/2024

Most of you will know that I'm running a little challenging race in Antarctica next month. Last appointment will be on 1st March with the clinic reopening on Monday 25th. Please let me know if you need a slot before I go. I'd love to see you

19/12/2023

Have I seen you this year?

The clinic will have been up and running now for a year. Over this year I have met many wonderful people. Thank you to all clients who have put your trust in me. May I wish you all a wonderful Christmas and a very happy and healthy 2024.

30/10/2023

Kinesiophobia?

This is where you can have a disproportionate irrational and incapacitating fear of movement or physical activity. It means that you can experience a sense of susceptibility to injury in response to movement. In turn this can progress pain from acute to persistent and chronic pain, as a result of decreased use of the painful area.

Two reasons that someone may develop kinesiophobia are:

1. Previous experience of pain or trauma, usually following pain caused during a specific activity

2. Social learning and observation can lead to the development of thinking a movement is related to pain when observing others having a painful experience

Why am I telling you this?

Because I can help.

If you would like to restore your movement but fear that movement will only make your pain worse, then we can usually resolve this. New to the clinic I have introduced VR Healing. Using this approach, I accurately measure your movement patterns. You can see these measurements for yourself on the screen. Having taken the measurements and assessed your individual circumstances, I utilise the VR software to rebuild your confidence to move, pain-free. This method re-educates your 'pain signals' and enables you to begin your journey to restored mobility. Contact me and I can tell you if this revolutionary system is suitable for your recovery. www.kategreen.xyz

14/09/2023

I always advocate exercise and activity to help keep nice and mobile and also pain free. So here I go: trying to raise some funds for a worthy cause, sadly close to too many hearts. Your support is welcomed but not expected. It would be great if anyone I have fixed could have a go at the challenge too. Please don't if you are in rehab (me being serious!)

Everyone... I'm skipping to help raise money for Cander Research UK. Literally 100 per day for the whole of October!!! Hope you can support this. Or join in the fun and do it as well?

01/09/2023

If you would like to treat someone you know to a treatment why not consider a Gift Voucher?

01/09/2023

The winner for the Review Draw for the month of August is Kate Good. Well done Kate - you have won a treatment for yourself or someone you know.
If you are yet to submit a review and would like to be in with a chance next month, you can submit yours here: https://g.page/r/CcerNEuAqKXeEBM/review
Anyone that puts a review on Facebook is also put into the draw too!!

09/08/2023

When should you become active again after injury?

Starting active movements very importantly helps someone with an acute injury return to daily activities, aiding the body's processes to regain full muscle function and neuromuscular control.

Activity promotes and stimulates the repair and remodelling of injured tissue. After a brief rest period following an injury to allow the scar tissue to stabilise, the benefits of starting active movements include faster and more complete regeneration and the minimising of atrophy of surrounding tissue.

Activity naturally increases the fluid flow, blood and lymph supply and nerve signals from a region which work together to start the healing process more quickly and with better long-term results than with a period of inactivity. Getting back to activity prevents fibrous adhesions from having the opportunity to develop.

One week of immobilisation causes a 3-4% decrease in muscle strength every day. Starting rehabilitation 48 hours after injury reduces the interval from injury to pain-free recovery without increasing the risk of re-injury.

Although exercise induces hypoalgesia, deceasing sensitivity to painful stimuli, any pain, especially sharp pain will lead to the retearing of the damaged fibres and retriggers the neuromusclular response leading to more tension, which is why it is crucial to stay with the pain threshold, while keeping any movement as normal as possible.

During an injury phase, the body adapts to function as well as it can. Prolonged inactivity will make the central nervous system forget the normal movement prior to the injury and so it is important that it is reminded as soon as possible. Moving the affected area as much as possible and as soon as possible within the pain free range to start with, through the normal range of movement, for example bending and straightening the arm for a biceps injury will make sure the regeneration process is not delayed.

Delays caused by resting for too long rapidly reduces the strength in the tissues, making rehabilitation more difficult. Lack of use quickly loses neuromuscular function and this needs to be reactivated as quickly as possible to prevent delays in recovery. Neuromuscular mechanisms need to be kept active so they don’t ‘forget’ what they are doing. Lack of movement compromises the quality and control of movement.

Mobilisation as soon as possible after the injury should be gradual and progressive.

The stimulation of movement, especially in the early stages of healing, is a crucial part of recovery from injury.