Willow Therapies
Sports and Massage Therapy
Michelle Eichhorn
My previous life was in Healthcare working for the NHS for 20 years as a staff Nurse. I have always focused on leading an active + Healthy lifestyle and wanted to incorporate my knowledge in nursing to help people in another way. I tried a taster day in sports massage and wanted to take it further. I started my journey with the Level 3 ITEC Sports Massage Therapy qualification and haven't looked back.
Why Massage ?
If you're stressed out and sore, moving poorly due to pain or even in pain due to poor mobility, you may think the only thing that helps is to take over the counter medication to get through the day. You don't have to suffer and bear it,
massage therapy can help. By using different pressures, movements and techniques to manipulate muscles and other tissues in the body, sports massage can be beneficial to most people, you don't have to do sports to benefit from massage therapy, anyone can benefit irrespective of age or level of fitness.
Massage slows down your nervous system, releases stress tension, provides relief from symptoms and supports your wellness
Sports Massage
+ Benefits
Massage Therapy has a long dated history spanning 5,000 years, dating back to the 3000BC in India as a sacred system of natural healing
Sports massage is proven to release and reduce tension in muscles, improve circulation and encourage the removal of waste products such as lactic acid during high intensity activity and can help to relax the body.
Sports Massage Info
Soft tissue dysfunction is the impairment or imbalances of the soft tissues.
Dysfunction is non-pathological, the tissue is not injured and there is no inflammation. Soft tissue which is placed under excessive stress, compensatory movements, posture + muscle imbalances occur, which in turn causes further
dysfunction within the tissues themselves. Dysfunction may either be the primary source of symptoms or secondary due to an altered structural and functional capacity.
Causes of Soft tissue Dysfunction
- Poor posture
- Congenital factors
- Overuse of soft tissue due to sport or over activity
- Inappropriate patterns of activity at home or work
- Altered movement patterns due to an injury
- Stress
- Depression
- Lifestyle
It is likely that all of us have or will have experienced this at some point in our lives.
What are the benefits ?
- Increased blood flow in the muscle
- Increased lymph flow and the removal of toxins in the muscle
- Breakdown of adhesions + scar tissue which builds up after time causing tension
- relieves muscular pain
- Physiological + psychological preparation for a race or event
- A positive sense of wellbeing, relaxation and lowered stress
- lowers blood pressure
- reduced pain
- increased mobility
Address
Salon Eighty Three
83 high-street, Gorleston,
NR31 6RQ
Phone
07824 441992