Soft Tissue Therapy
Supporting you with persistent pain, injury and reduced mobility.
How can Soft Tissue Therapy help you?
As a soft tissue therapist, my role is to facilitate your recovery from minor soft tissue injury and work with you to help manage and reduce your chronic (persistent) pain.
There is no universal method that works for everybody with an injury or chronic pain. This is why I take an entirely person-centred approach, focused on finding what works for YOU, so that you can get back to doing what you love most.
Soft Tissue Therapy involves a variety of supportive interventions, which are explained in more detail below. It can be beneficial for many musculoskeletal conditions or pain experiences, including:
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Lower back pain
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Tension headaches
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Tennis elbow
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Achilles Tendinopathy
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Neck / Shoulder pain
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Osteoarthritis
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Temporomandibular jaw pain
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Fibromyalgia
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Muscle / tendon strains
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Ligament sprains
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Consultation & Assessment
Taking a person-centred approach means that the consultation is the most important part of the treatment. This is where we get to know each other, you can share your experience and I can find out more about how I can best support you through your recovery process.
I will also perform a physical assessment of your range of movement and pain presentation, with the intention of identifying areas which may be contributing to the problem.
From here we can work together to establish a plan based on your long-term goals, whether that's returning to work, getting back to sport, playing with the children, or tearing up the dance-floor!
Massage &
Manual Therapy
A combination of massage and manual therapy techniques are used to temporarily alleviate pain and tension, increase range of movement, improve muscle recovery and create a window of opportunity for you to go about some of your daily activities and movement requirements with reduced pain and improved mobility, or to simply get a better night of sleep.
Massage and manual therapy can have incredible short-term effects, while these techniques are not a 'fix' for your condition, they can certainly be beneficial as part of the wider treatment program that Soft Tissue Therapy provides.
Movement & Lifestyle
A large part of your recovery program will be focused on what you do in your daily life to support this process.
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There are many biological, psychological and sociological factors that can contribute to your chronic pain experience or create barriers to your rehabilitation from injury or surgery. I will work with you to identify these factors and support you in making adjustments that work for you.
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Movement is undoubtedly one of the most important components of rehabilitation and pain management.
But movement doesn't always have to mean gym sessions or boring rehab exercises, if this is not something that resonates with you.
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My aim is to guide you in finding ways to move that support your recovery and that you can easily fit in to your life. If you are an athlete, this may be centred around the sport that you love. If you are a busy working mum who barely has time for a cup of tea during the day, let alone an hours gym session, your movement may centre around play with the children or some relaxing yoga after they've gone to bed.
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All movement is good movement and ultimately the most important thing is that you enjoy it!
