The Benefits of Heat and Cold Therapy
If you’ve ever been in a hot bath or Jacuzzi after a hard workout, you know that the water immediately soothes and relaxes sore muscles. And for burns and painful bumps, we’ve all been
Kinesiology Taping for Shoulder Pain
Your shoulder is a relatively unstable and complex joint involving many muscle groups that sees extensive, repeated use and abuse. Good shoulder function is a necessity for almost all sports and when there’s an
Tipping your Healthcare Professional – Is it Appropriate?
Everyone’s been there at one point or another – wondering whether or not you should tip for a service you received and if so, how much? The fact is that rocket science may be
Stretching and Rolling Benefits
Ask anyone who has had a massage what it felt like and they’ll likely sigh in memory; we all know how wonderful it can be, but the fact is, massage is more than just
What is Sport Taping
Like kettlebells, jump ropes and the stair-master, sport tape is nothing more than a means to an end; a tool to be harnessed in the pursuit of an objective. As athletes, that objective is
Benefits Of Using Sports Taping
It's becoming more and more common to see people either in the gym or out running on the street with colourful tape affixed to their bodies. No, they aren't part of some new secret
Benefits of Kinesiology Taping
Kinesiology tape is a revolutionary new product on the sports health market, and from its looks, you could cast it aside as a sham, but that’d be a mistake. In use in Japan since
Benefits of Deep Tissue Massage
Deep Tissue Massage (DTM) is the elixir of athletes across the globe, a therapy that has been used to fight the pain of muscle injury and wear for more than three thousand years. Indeed,
Epsom Salt after a Deep Massage
Almost five hundred years ago, near a small town called Epsom in southern England, some people bathing in a natural spring noticed a salt-like substance in the water that seemed to leave their skin
Myofascial Fire Cupping
If you watched the last Olympic Games in Rio, you may have seen strange, circular spots on several of the athletes’ bodies. They’re evidence of the latest health trend to hit the sports industry;