Therapiesforyou

Where it all started

A fairly average sunny afternoon several years ago..... I slipped on some wet grass and landed on my side with arm pinned underneath me, to add to this the person I was with also slipped, but landed on top of me. When I finally got up I couldn’t move my wrist - a trip to A&E confirmed “nothing broken, just a soft tissue injury, you’ll be fine”. How wrong they were. Fast forward approx 3 years and I could barely move my wrist, arm, shoulder and neck. I bounced between my GP, NHS Physio, A&E and a Chiropractor until someone I worked with recommended a Sports Massage Therapist. After a few visits I felt much better but still not 100%.

After some soul searching, I took voluntary redundancy from my day job and decided to use the funds to retrain. Quite a leap from being an Exec PA for an Insurance Company but I decided I wanted to help people stuck in the same situation I’d been in (still in pain after conventional treatment ended) and believed I could make a difference.

I got my Holistic Massage ITEC qualification in 2009, Sports ITEC qualification in 2010, Reflexology ITEC in 2013, and haven’t looked back. Through researching the various problems that people presented with I came across Fascia (I bang on about it a lot - but that’s because it’s important!) and quickly realised this was the missing piece not only in my treatment but also in other people’s. I completed my treatment myself!

One thing I always believed, and still do, is that everyone is different so “one size will definitely not fit all”.

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