25/03/19- Sports Massage Clinic

25/03/19 Sports Massage Clinic 1 Hour What happened during the session: During today’s session, I performed a client consultation form, stretching and massage techniques on a client who struggles with tight hamstrings as a result of a recurring injury. How it all started: Around 3 years ago, this client did damage to their MCL (medial […]

25/03/19- Open Clinic- Second session

25/03/19 Open Clinic- Second Session 1 hour What happened during the session: During this session, I massaged a client who was suffering from doms after playing football over the weekend. This client did not perform the proper warm up or cool down that the coaches had set out for them and therefore was experiencing more […]

25/03/19- Open Clinic- First session

25/03/19 Open Clinic- First session 1 Hour What happened during the session: During this session, I massaged a client who was suffering from lower back pain. This pain started 6 days ago and is a constant aching pain throughout the day, after observing the client I noticed that they had increased lordosis of the lumbar […]

24/03/19- Tamar 10k

24/03/19-Tamar 10k Kings Tamerton Community Centre  4 hours What happened during the session: Today, I massaged at the Tamar 10k for 4 hours, providing pre-event and post-event massage free for anyone who wanted the treatment. We promoted the massage clinic and the services they provide as well as taping runner’s that needed the support before […]

21/03/19- Open Clinic

21/03/19 Open Clinic 1 hour What happened during the session: During this session, I massaged a client who was suffering from DOMS after training legs in the gym the previous day. I massaged the client’s hamstrings as they were causing them pain however, working mostly on the adductors as they were causing the majority of […]

11/03/19- Open Clinic- Second session

11/03/19 Open Clinic- Second session 1 Hour What happened during the session: During today’s session, I worked with a client who was a second-year sports therapy student. They had come to the open clinic after they started experiencing DOMS 3 days ago as a result of training legs 5 days ago. The muscles were extremely […]

11/03/19- Open clinic

11/03/19 Open Clinic- First session 1 hour What happened during the session: During this session, I massaged this client for the third time trying to get to the bottom of her lower back pain. In the last 2 sessions, I massaged her lower back to try and relieve the pain and tension of the tight […]

04/03/19- Open Clinic- Second session

04/03/19 Open clinic-Session 2 1 Hour What happened during the session: During this session, I was paired with another massage therapist due to the low number of clients turning up to the open clinic. We focused on the hamstrings of the client due to them having tightness in this area as a result of DOMS. […]

04/03/19- Open Clinic

04/03/19 Open Clinic  1 Hour What happened during the session: During this session, I massaged a client that I have massaged once before, as they were suffering from lower back pain. After researching hip mobility and tight hamstrings in relation to lower back pain, I decided to perform the musculoskeletal tests for the hip even though […]

25/02/19- Open clinic- Second Session

25/02/19 Open clinic- second session 1 hour What happened during the session: Due to the low numbers of clients in the clinic today we as therapists paired up combining our knowledge and working on a client between the two of us. This allowed us to discuss what we were doing and what was best for […]