Sports and Remedial Massage
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Sports Massage is a targeted massage treatment, focusing on treating injuries, niggles or problem areas identified by the client. Sports massage involves firm soft tissue work such as trigger point release, but can also involve active and passive stretching techniques to achieve improvements in flexibility and muscle tightness. As your therapist will be working on an injury or perhaps something like posture, you may expect a brief assessment to enable the massage therapist to identify areas that require more attention.
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Sports and remedial massage is not just for those involved in fitness and sport! It can be enjoyed by anybody who is wanting to work on a particular issue. It is however beneficial in terms of injury prevention and pre and post event, to complement training, aid performance and recovery. Our patients love it for supporting them with events such as marathon training, or to support more intensive periods within a training cycle. Our team at Balanced Osteopathy are all involved with sport and fitness at varying levels and work with both amateur and professional athletes.
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Pregnancy Massage
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Our pregnancy massages are suitable from 12 weeks until full term - please do dontact us in advance if you have any health concerns during your pregnancy and you want to check that massage is still suitable for you. Your massage will be carried out by an Osteopath who is a highly qualified allied health practitioner. Pregnancy massages with our clinicians at Balanced Osteopathy can be adapted to target any particular pains or discomforts that you may be experiencing at the different stages of pregnancy - typically most musculoskeletal pains during pregnancy respond well to things like massage, osteopathy and exercise rehabilitation depending on the issue.
Massage during pregnancy can be relieving for issues such as increased tension through the upper back, shoulders and neck as the upper body undergoes postural changes such as rib expansion and elevation and a shift in the body's centre of gravitiy. Common complaints such as lower back pain or pelvic girdle pain as the lumbopelvis adapts whilst baby grows can be worked on in these massages, or if you just want something relaxing, we can do that too.
We provide thick supportive pregnancy cushions by BBhugme so that you can relax for your massage in a comfortable, pain free position and use neals yard remedy organic pregnancy products so that you know that the essential oils are safe for use during pregnancy.
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"Life saver! I am pregnant and Rebecca has worked a miracle on my lower back pain. I felt so safe with all her techniques, she is clearly extremely knowledgeable. I am able to walk and move in and out of sitting and go upstairs once again. Highly recommend!"