Orchard Sports Massage & Remedial Therapy

In recent years, upper back pain has become a familiar complaint from people who work at computers most of the day. Most types of ankle sprains happen when you make a rapid shifting movement with your foot planted, such as when you get tackled in football, slip on wet grass or loose you ballance on high heels.

Extremely beneficial to athletes, gym goers or even those that are desk bound, a sports massage experience will vary from person to person depending on what their injuries or aggravations are. Sports massage is designed to to provide a deep and rehabilitating process that manipulates soft tissue to prevent injuries and get your body ready for whatever you want to put it through.

Myofascial release (MFR) therapy focuses on treating muscle immobility and pain by relaxing contracted muscles, improving blood, oxygen, and lymphatic circulation, and stimulating the stretch reflex in muscles. There are a number of conditions and symptoms that myofascial release therapy addresses e.g.

As well as changing your life, pregnancy changes your body to accommodate and protect the new life growing inside you. As a result you will experience postural changes, an influx of hormones, weight gain, increased plasma and blood volume and the shifting of organs.

Prenatal massage shares many of the goals of regular massage - to relax tense muscles, ease sore spots, improve circulation/mobility and make you feel good, but it's also tailored specifically to the needs of pregnant woman and her changing body.Assists in maintaining good posture and adjusting to a changing alignment caused by the baby's increasing weight.

ScarWork is a specialised gentle manual treatment, similar to scar massage, to help patients with scar tissue, fibrosis, adhesions and change in tissue health following surgery and radiotherapy. Sharon Wheeler, an American therapist, developed these techniques over the last 40 years and now teaches around the world.