For once we are early organising our holiday opening hours! Here are the closing times for both shops: We hope to see you all before the break, to get your pre-Christmas massage fix! 🙏
For once we are early organising our holiday opening hours! Here are the closing times for both shops: We hope to see you all before the break, to get your pre-Christmas massage fix! 🙏
We thought we would write a little about herbal compress massage. We have some decorative herbal compress wraps (ลูกประคบ สมุนไพร or “phrakob” in Thai) on display in our treatment rooms and so we sometimes get asked by customers if we apply them as part of our treatments. It’s not something we offer at the moment, […]
We have written a lot about the benefits of massage to aid recovery, both from injury and from intensive training. But there is another, often under-appreciated, benefit of regular massage namely its role in prevention of injury in the first place. The benefits of this approach are obvious of course: an injury prevented means no […]
Delayed onset muscle soreness (DOMS) is name given to the common muscle ache we feel a day or two after a particularly difficult or new workout. It is most common after attempting some new or unusual exercises that target muscle groups not worked frequently. It is nothing to worry about – indeed some people enjoy […]
Myofascial release therapy is a specialized massage technique that focuses on releasing tension and tightness in the myofascial tissues. That is a circular definition of course so to better understand it, let’s first examine what myofascial tissue is and its role. Myofascial tissue is the thin flexible connective tissue that encases and supports muscles, bones, […]