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When Chest Pain Is Not Due to Heart Problems

by Amanda Madeleine White As I clutched my chest, as the pain shot around my ribs and into my shoulder, I thought Oh God! I took myself to the emergency clinic, as every sensible person would. The Accident and Emergency department did a full heart screen on me and...

What’s this fascia?

by Julien Baker Fascial release, fascial stretching, fascia blasting, myofascial meridians. Everywhere you look over the last few years in the complementary health industry the word fascia keeps coming up. The claims surrounding fascia and the varying treatments and...

Scar Therapy: Bridging the gap in surgery and trauma recovery

by Emma Holly In both the public and private healthcare systems in the United Kingdom, aftercare advice for patients about their scars is limited. Most patients receive little or no advice on ongoing scar care. There is very limited signposting for the patient to...

Real-Life Movement

Does the anatomy you learned help you understand movement? For most of us, the answer is a clear ‘no’. Why is that? If we are trying to improve our client’s life, shouldn’t we understand how they move outside the clinic, getting on with life? This series aims to...

Myofascial Pain and Hormones

by Ruth Duncan Do women experience more pain than men? Does this suggest that female physiology is different, and if so, what factors influence the pain experience? In the UK in 2019, 50% more women lived with chronic low back pain than men (1). The NHS reports that...

Myofascia and Real-Life Movement (part 2)

by James Earls The first article in this series investigated the influence of movement through our whole body. By moving our arms in each of the three planes we found that the body reacts in quite predictable ways – movement in the sagittal plane causes the body to...

Is Your Treatment Table a Liability?

by Greg Coughlan Treatment table accidents have been on the rise in recent years, according to insurance companies. Thankfully, at Massage Warehouse, we haven’t had direct experience of claims, but after hearing about the problem, we wanted to help the industry...

Intervertebral Disc Decompression’ to cure her back pain

Eastern Massage Approaches

This month in Massage World’s CPD section, we will explore the exciting world of Eastern massage techniques with not one but 2 articles! Using principles of balancing energy through the meridians, Amma Fusion and Table Thai are 2 dynamic massage techniques that can be...

Chair Massage – Touchdown in Corporate Space

by Pauline Baxter Everyone has had the experience of things not going quite according to plan, the last year being a case in point. The devastating impact of Covid-19 has by far been the furthest-reaching disaster in so many different ways. From a business...