Nov 9, 2025 | Back Massage, Injuries, Injury Prevention, Massage, Pain, Rehabilitation, Shoulder Massage, Sports Injurys, Sports Massage, Sports Therapy, Strength, Tension treatments
I am starting a series of blogs with some information as to how we can help people who undertake different activities. This month is a short article about cyclists, common injury problems and how we at Health and Harmony Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation can help you...
Sep 8, 2025 | Back Massage, Energy Flow, Healing Treatment, Health, Holistic, Massage, Pregnancy Health, Stress Treatments, Tension treatments, Wellbeing, Womens Health
Pregnancy massage has numerous benefits, the main benefit being instant relaxation for the mind, body and baby. However, the treatment is also known to: Reduce stress and anxiety which has a positive impact on reducing cortisol which is the stress hormone. Relieve...
Oct 22, 2024 | Headaches, Injury Prevention, Massage, Mental Health, Rehabilitation, Sports Massage, Sports Therapy, Stress Treatments, Wellbeing
Suffering from headaches can be quite common for a lot of people, and can be debilitating to your life. In this blog, we briefly talk about the causes of tension type headaches (TTH) and things to consider to help. Those who have a family history of headaches are at...
Sep 8, 2024 | Conditioning, Health, Injuries, Injury Prevention, Massage, Pain, Rehabilitation, Sports Injurys, Sports Massage, Sports Therapy, Strength
Muscle strength is so important to maintain stability of our joints during every day movements and sporting activity. It is even more important to consider as we age, particularly as we develop injuries and pain in our joints. Often, we stop exercising when we get...
Aug 18, 2024 | Back Massage, Health, Holistic, Injury Prevention, Massage, Rehabilitation, Sports Injurys, Sports Massage, Wellbeing
We often use muscle energy techniques (“MET”) in our clinic to help people who are in pain. What is MET and how can it help? An MET is a physical therapy technique we use to that to reduce pain in your muscles and increase your range of motion. It involves gentle...
Apr 14, 2024 | Back Massage, Healing Treatment, Health, Injury Prevention, Massage, Sports Injurys, Sports Massage, Tension treatments
A research paper in Science Translational Medicine[1] concluded that massage can help your muscles recover after physical exercise by reducing inflammation and promoting mitochondrial biogenesis, which increases our muscle glucose uptake. The study found that massage...
Jan 5, 2024 | Healing Treatment, Rehabilitation, Sports Injurys, Sports Massage
This article is about rehabilitation a muscle strain to the hamstring, although the principles could be applied to many other muscle injuries. An injury to the hamstring is now one of the most common injuries in sports, especially where acceleration and deceleration...
Jan 3, 2024 | Back Massage, Massage, Sports Injurys, Sports Massage, Stress Treatments, Tension treatments
A review of various studies[1] on the benefits of sports massage on performance and recovery found that it can improve flexibility and delayed onset muscle soreness (DOMS). This is beneficial to know for those that compete in any sporting activity or physical job,...
Apr 14, 2021 | Health, Massage, Sports Massage
Tennis elbow is a common term for any pain between the elbow and wrist. The muscles involved are the extensor carpi radialis brevis and/or extensor carpi radialis longus. These originate on the lateral epicondyle and supracondylar ridge of the humerus (outside of...
Dec 6, 2020 | Appointments, Back Massage, Massage, Sports Injurys, Sports Massage
Yes, believe it or not but a weak Gluteus maximus (Gmax) and Gluteus medius (Gmed) (the main muscles around your bum) could be a cause of lower back pain and/or knee pain. Why? Because when you are either walking or running both the Gmax and Gmed help to extend the...
