Complementary Therapy

Sports massage isn’t just for athletes — it’s ideal for anyone dealing with muscle fatigue, tension, or restricted mobility. Using deeper pressure and a range of targeted techniques, sports massage realigns soft tissue, supports recovery from injury, and improves posture. Whether you’re recovering from an intense training session or spend long hours at a desk, this treatment helps you move better and feel revitalised.

From time to time we all feel sore and tender. This is a result of toxins building up in the body. This soreness prevents us from operating at our optimum. Sports Massage can help reduce tenderness and enable us to carry out our normal tasks with the minimum of fuss.

Benefits of Sports Massage

• Speeds up recovery from training or injury
• Reduces muscular tension and increases flexibility 
• Corrects postural issues and muscle imbalances
• Minimises scar tissue and swelling
• Prepares the body for physical activity and assists in post event recovery

Techniques used

• Soft Tissue Release (STR): Targets muscle fibres and scar tissue
• Muscle Energy Technique (MET): Enhance flexibility through active stretching
• Neuromuscular Technique (NMT): Encourages muscle relaxation and improved movement range

If you’re in Hornchurch or the surrounding areas and need relief from muscle strain or want to enhance your performance, this massage is for you.

Deep tissue massage is ideal for persistent muscular discomfort, postural strain, and deeply held tension. This technique focuses on the deeper layers of muscle and connective tissue, using slow, deliberate pressure to release tight areas, reduce inflammation, and restore movement.

Best for:

• Ongoing neck, shoulder, and back discomfort
• Recovery from repetitive strain or injuries
• Enhancing mobility and posture
• Breaking down muscular knots and adhesions

Techniques include:

• Deep Effleurage – Improves circulation and lymph flow
• Neuromuscular Therapy – Clears waste buildup in targeted muscle points
• Acupressure – Relieves tension via trigger points
• Active stretching – Supports muscle release and flexibility

Serving Hornchurch and nearby areas, this treatment is perfect for those seeking long-lasting relief from muscular discomfort in a mobile, at-home setting.

The term holistic comes from the Greek word ‘holos’ meaning whole. The holistic approach aims to restore balance within the body, taking into account the person’s whole being not just their physical symptoms or ailments.

Massage therapy is an ancient form of healing, used for thousands of years. Holistic massage combines a therapeutic and nurturing process of touch and response with each treatment adapted to the client’s unique needs, physical characteristics and personality.

The strokes used are:-

Effleurage: A series of massage strokes used to warm up the muscle.  This is a soothing, stroking movement and is used as a linking move between the different strokes and movements.

Petrissage: massage movements with applied pressure, which are deep and work on the underlying muscles.  Kneading, wringing, pick up and squeeze are all petrissage movements.

Tapotement: This is a specific stroke and movement technique used.  It is a rhythmic percussion most frequently administered by the palm of the hands or tips of the fingers.  It is used to stimulate the muscle and encourage blood into the area.

Vibration:  This is when you use the tips of your fingers of side of hand to loosed tight muscle.  It is done quite vigorously, and is used to stimulate the muscle and encourage blood into the area.  Also to loosen fascia.  

Friction: This is the most penetrating of the strokes, and consists of deep circular or transverse movements made with the thumb pads or fingertips. The therapist applies deep, circular movement near joints and other bony areas (such as the sides of the spine). Friction breaks down adhesions, which are knots that result when muscle fibers bind together during the healing process, thus contributing to more flexible muscles and joints.

Manual Lymphatic Drainage is a very light touch massage that improves the efficiency of the lymphatic system. Gentle pulsing movements work to remove waste products, toxins and excess fluid back into the lymphatic system which will then be excreted. It can also reduce fluid retention and can also lead to the reduction in the appearance of cellulite.

Manual lymphatic drainage is an excellent way to detoxify the body and speed up the metabolism. After treatments clients feel more energised and less sluggish. MLD is also used to help clients recover from cosmetic surgery by helping to reduce the swelling and promote recovery.

Cupping is an ancient method of releasing congestion within the body. The cups help to create a partial vacuum using either suction or heat. When used the cups are left on the body for a few minutes they allow an increase in blood flow to the area. Cupping helps to lift the skin and soft tissues away from the bones. This in turn is beneficial as it can help relieve joint pain and improve the range of movement around a joint. Additionally, cupping helps with the release of toxins as well as helping to activate the Lymphatic system and improve blood flow in the veins, arteries and capillaries. This treatment helps the therapist deliver a deep tissue massage as it softens the tissues without the need for lots of effleurage and petrissage.

Theragun treatment is a deep muscle treatment. It works by using rapid percussive strokes to repeatedly stimulate a muscle or group of muscles. It can help with pain relief, improved range of movement and enable the performer to recover quicker from activities. The theragun is excellent at treating conditions such as DOMS (delayed onset of muscle soreness) and is also beneficial in assisting with the breaking down of scar tissue and myofascial release. The increase in blood flow allows more oxygen to the area, which in turn speeds up the removal of waste products. The theragun is excellent at treating injuries and soreness when combined with massage.

I am fully mobile and available to visit clients in the comfort of their own home. Please note that travelling to you may incur an additional fee.

For your massage treatment I will bring with me, a table, towels, oil and music. I am currently visiting the following areas, Hornchurch, South Hornchurch, Emerson Park, Upminster, Romford, Collier Row, Gidea Park, Cranham, Harold Wood, Harold Hill, Harold Park, Dagenham, Rainham, Elm Park, Brentwood, Epping, Theydon Bois, Stapleford Abbotts, Loughton, Chigwell, Buckhurst Hill, Woodford Green and South Woodford.

Additionally, I can also visit the following postcodes, RM15, RM16, RM19, RM20, CM4, CM5, CM11 and CM12.