Elephant Garden Massage Therapy

09/01/2026

🧠🩺 What Makes Clinical Remedial Massage Different?

Massage can be relaxing — but when you’re dealing with pain, injury, or movement issues, relaxation alone often isn’t enough.

My work sits in the space between traditional massage and rehabilitation support, using a clinical, remedial approach tailored to how your body actually functions.

🔍 Each session may include:

• Movement-informed assessment
• Targeted therapeutic and sports massage
• Advanced clinical techniques (Jing Method)
• Dry needling & medical acupuncture (where appropriate)
• Muscle Energy Techniques and corrective strategies
• Kinesio taping for support between sessions
• Stretching, strengthening, and conditioning guidance

Rather than following a routine, sessions are problem-focused and goal-driven, designed to support recovery, improve function, and reduce the likelihood of recurring issues.

✨ Why this approach matters

• Pain and dysfunction often have multiple contributing factors
• Lasting change requires skilled assessment, not guesswork
• Clinical reasoning + hands-on treatment = better outcomes

This style of work is best suited to clients with injuries, persistent tension, or movement limitations who want a structured, rehabilitative approach — not just a one-off treatment.

📅 Get in touch to see if this approach is right for you.

08/01/2026

I am at The Maples for a wellbeing afternoon. Here I am giving hand and arm massage, Indian head massage and reflexology. A relaxing and calming afternoon planned for the residents 💆🏼‍♀️

07/01/2026

I have 2 model appointments on Saturday for acupuncture and cupping. This is at the discounted rate of £25. Drop me a message for more information or to book

07/01/2026

“I’m fine” is more than a phrase; it’s a mirror reflecting the way modern life teaches us to manage truth. It represents politeness, performance, perfectionism — the promise that if we appear unshaken, we will belong. But as we’ve explored, beneath those two small words sits an entire emotional economy: early conditioning, social expectation, psychological defence, even neurological adaptation. “I’m fine” is both symptom and strategy — a language of survival in a world that often rewards composure over candour.
Yet across cultures, professions, and relationships, we are beginning to sense the cost of that survival tactic. The insistence on fine-ness has created an epidemic of quiet suffering — people outwardly high-functioning but inwardly dysregulated, emotionally disconnected, and starved for honesty. We have mastered resilience as endurance, but forgotten resilience as repair.
What if thriving didn’t mean never breaking, but learning how to mend?
What if strength wasn’t stoicism, but sincerity?
When we stop saying “I’m fine” automatically, we begin to reopen the pathway between mind and body, thought and feeling, self and community. The shift might be subtle — a longer pause before answering, a clearer awareness of what’s real inside us — but each small act of honesty rebuilds trust within ourselves and between each other. This is the foundation of true wellbeing: not the eradication of struggle, but the restoration of connection.
Choosing honesty in place of “I’m fine” doesn’t make life easier, but it makes it fuller. It allows us to be met where we actually are — not where we pretend to be. It invites depth into our interactions, tenderness into leadership, and authenticity into care. It gives permission for nuance: for feeling both grateful and exhausted, strong and scared, hopeful and heavy — all at once. In that space, humanity returns.
So ask yourself: Where in your life have you been saying “I’m fine” when what you really meant was “I need space, support, or rest”?
And perhaps more importantly, when others tell you they’re fine, how can you listen for what lives beneath the word?
The greatest act of care we can practice — for ourselves and others — is to honour truth without judgment.
Because thriving doesn’t begin with perfection; it begins with presence.
It begins when we speak honestly, feel safely, connect deeply.
It begins when we stop saying “I’m fine,” and start saying, simply — I’m human.

07/01/2026

🖥️ Do you sit for long hours at work?

Prolonged sitting — especially with poor posture — puts continuous low-level stress on your neck, shoulders, and upper back.
Muscles like the upper trapezius and levator scapulae work overtime to hold your head up when your posture starts to drift forward.
Over time, this leads to:

Stiffness and pain between the shoulder blades

Tight neck muscles

Tension headaches

Reduced mobility

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🔬 Why it matters

Research shows that postural fatigue often starts before you feel pain.
Sitting in one position for more than 30 minutes reduces circulation and loads passive tissues like ligaments and discs.

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💡 What helps?

✔️ Break sitting up with regular movement – stand or stretch every 30–45 mins
✔️ Strengthen postural muscles — especially the deep neck flexors and mid-back
✔️ Massage and mobilisation reduce accumulated tension
✔️ Adjust your setup – screens at eye level, feet flat, shoulders relaxed

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💬 Do you work at a desk or from home?
Comment below or message me for 3 easy stretches you can do at your desk today.

06/01/2026

Did you know that for every one of you that rebooks, leaves me a good review , recommends me to others, sings my praises , brings me little presents , it makes me love my job more and more every week. 🫶🏻

I appreciate you more than you will ever know 💝

06/01/2026

👀 Injury management and rehabilitation — what does that actually mean?

🤕 If you’ve been told to “just rest”, “do your exercises”, or “give it time” and then left to get on with it — you’re not alone. Injuries are often vague, inconvenient, and rarely arrive with useful instructions.

👐 In my work, injury management and rehabilitation aren’t about pretending to be a physio. They’re about helping your body calm down, move a bit better, and tolerate everyday life again. That might involve advanced clinical massage to ease things along, muscle energy techniques to encourage better movement, or kinesio taping to offer a bit of support while you carry on.

🐘 Where appropriate, that can also include dry needling or medical acupuncture, alongside sensible stretching, strengthening, and conditioning. Nothing heroic. No “pushing through”. Just what’s actually helpful at the time.

🐘 Why does this matter? Because recovery shouldn’t feel like a long, confusing process where you’re constantly wondering if you’re making things worse. Fewer flare-ups, less overthinking, and more quiet confidence in your body.

🐘 If your body’s being mildly uncooperative and you’re not entirely sure what it needs, feel free to message me and we’ll talk it through.

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Sending best wishes

25/12/2025

Merry Christmas 🎄

23/12/2025

Thats me finished till Monday! I hope you all have a lovely Christmas with your loved ones. Remember if your backs aching from arching when wrapping presents, you've pulled a muscle playing twister or you feel bloated and need a stomach massage drop me a message.