Now that the busy time of year is over and we are heading into the cooler months it is important to continue making time for the outdoors. So often, we get caught up with our work routine and life routine that we forgot to make time for stillness and silence.   Being in nature helps to reduce anger, fear, and stress and increases pleasant feelings. Exposure to nature not only makes you feel better emotionally, it contributes to your physical wellbeing, reducing blood pressure, heart rate, muscle tension, and the production of stress hormones.   Back in 2015/2016 I ..read more

Massage is an important recovery tool for anyone who is getting serious about a particular sport. Today I will explain why massage is important for runners to perform optimally and specific areas they can request their massage therapist to loosen and those areas that may need some added strengthening. it important for anyone competing or simply just doing a large amount of running to know the basic information about the muscles being worked during the running motion, so we know what muscles may be weaker (Inhibited) or tight (Hypertonic). The main muscle groups that we used during the running ..read more

Have you ever wondered anything in particular about massage therapy or had any unanswered questions?  Well today is your lucky day I’m on a mission to answer all those questions that you haven’t had the chance to ask. I’m here to help explain the ins and outs of a massage and post massage treatment. here are some questions I have received in clinic recently…  How Much Clothing Should I Wear During A Massage?  During a massage consultation its helpful if the therapist can see as much of your posture or fascia as possible. This helps them determine areas that may require more trea ..read more

During treatment sessions there is a lot of time to get to know the clients i am treating and the client to get to know me. I love this part about work where on any given day i can meet 5 new people and engage in a conversation one on one. During these sessions I get a lot of questions about myself, as well as a lot of general massage questions (in which I will cover in my next blog). So, I thought for those who may not know me I would give you an insight into my career before you pop in for a treatment.  My pathway to becoming a physical therapist began in Darwin in 2010, whilst I w ..read more

Many of us spend our early mornings or later afternoons slogging it out at the gym trying to improve our physical fitness levels. But are you skipping the most important part of your training session?  We are all very time poor, so most of us get to the gym and skip straight to lifting weights or running on the treadmill with little to no warm-up. We then work our way through a gruelling session and finish up with no more than a little quadricep and lat stretch if that. We also wake up the next day feeling as though we have run a marathon in our sleep. I'm here to let you in on a lit ..read more