Active Remedial and Sports Massage
Advanced deep massage techniques and stretches will identify and relieve muscle tightness; promote muscle health, flexibility and stamina. Active techniques will stimulate or relax pre and post event. Injury rehabilitation and stress relief.
Training to improve performance will increasingly put pressure on muscles, tendons and ligaments, making them more susceptible to injury, which may be sudden and acute, or develop gradually from chronic overuse. Muscles become less flexible and performance deteriorates despite increased training effort.
Regular massage will loosen and relieve tight, 'knotty' muscles and increase flexibility, helping to prevent injury, improve performance and recovery time, ease sore muscles and allow training between events to recommence more quickly. Recovery time following injury is reduced and development of excessive scar tissue prevented and established scar tissue, whch may be restricting performance or causing pain, can be broken down.
Julie also offers the following treatments:
Deep Tissue Massage
Therapeutic Massage
Rehabilitation exercise
Teaching and workshops
On-site promotional events
Advanced deep massage techniques and stretches will identify and relieve muscle tightness; promote muscle health, flexibility and stamina. Active techniques will stimulate or relax pre and post event. Injury rehabilitation and stress relief.
Training to improve performance will increasingly put pressure on muscles, tendons and ligaments, making them more susceptible to injury, which may be sudden and acute, or develop gradually from chronic overuse. Muscles become less flexible and performance deteriorates despite increased training effort.
Regular massage will loosen and relieve tight, 'knotty' muscles and increase flexibility, helping to prevent injury, improve performance and recovery time, ease sore muscles and allow training between events to recommence more quickly. Recovery time following injury is reduced and development of excessive scar tissue prevented and established scar tissue, whch may be restricting performance or causing pain, can be broken down.
Julie also offers the following treatments:
Deep Tissue Massage
Therapeutic Massage
Rehabilitation exercise
Teaching and workshops
On-site promotional events
I have evolved and grown as a massage practitioner, fitness and exercise
rehabilitation teacher and teacher of massage and complementary therapies over the last 20 years.
Through my own experience of pain and posture imbalances I have created and developed a unique approach to my practice.
Training in exercise and fitness in the 80’s/90’s I ran regular community “aerobics classes” which naturally progressed to my interest in sports and remedial massage and qualifying as a massage therapist.
My private clinical practice has been established since 1997 where I treat patients with a range of symptoms and needs. Working as part of a team of integrated practitioners and my continual interest and development as a practitioner has enabled me to develop more specialist skills working in rehabilitation exercise and remedial massage.
With my additional skills I developed my approach in teaching exercise with “awakening the senses” a community group exercise programme using sensory equipment enabling people affected by stroke to develop and regain movement and sense of touch. Bencare exercise programmes have also benefited people with disabilities, mobility problems and muscle and joint imbalances.
With my own interest and active involvement in yoga, fitness and more recently distance running my approach as a practitioner and teacher incorporates principles and techniques of all these disciplines. Mindfulness, physical awareness and breathing techniques enabling balance and re-alignment to be restored.
Bencare and Julie Benham work to a Code of Ethics is a member of the Complementary and Natural Health Council and registered with LCSP. Remedial Masseurs and Manipulative Therapists.
Training in exercise and fitness in the 80’s/90’s I ran regular community “aerobics classes” which naturally progressed to my interest in sports and remedial massage and qualifying as a massage therapist.
My private clinical practice has been established since 1997 where I treat patients with a range of symptoms and needs. Working as part of a team of integrated practitioners and my continual interest and development as a practitioner has enabled me to develop more specialist skills working in rehabilitation exercise and remedial massage.
With my additional skills I developed my approach in teaching exercise with “awakening the senses” a community group exercise programme using sensory equipment enabling people affected by stroke to develop and regain movement and sense of touch. Bencare exercise programmes have also benefited people with disabilities, mobility problems and muscle and joint imbalances.
With my own interest and active involvement in yoga, fitness and more recently distance running my approach as a practitioner and teacher incorporates principles and techniques of all these disciplines. Mindfulness, physical awareness and breathing techniques enabling balance and re-alignment to be restored.
Bencare and Julie Benham work to a Code of Ethics is a member of the Complementary and Natural Health Council and registered with LCSP. Remedial Masseurs and Manipulative Therapists.
ABOUT
JULIE BENHAM
Massage has been considered an essential part of the professional sportsperson's
routine for many years, and today, the performance standard of top amateur
sportspeople is higher than that of professionals just a few decades ago.
Massage can help to maintain and improve this standard, and can easily be built into a training routine.
Modern sedentary lifestyles place unnatural restrictions on bodies which have evolved for continual movement, and tissues become tight, shortened, inflexible and unbalanced. Sudden, unaccustomed or repetitive activity - gardening, decorating, starting at the gym, playing an instrument - may cause muscles to tighten further, leading to aches and pains, micro damage to muscle fibres or more significant injury.
The body's natural waste system becomes sluggish and congested, and immunity against disease diminishes.
Swollen ankles, repetitive strain injury, backache, lethargy and headaches have become typical features of modern working life.
Regular massage is of benefit to everyone whatever our level of activity or lifestyle. Sports and remedial massage, chair massage and MLD offer complementary ways to support the body's own systems, prevent injury and illness, aid recovery and performance, reduce stress and promote relaxation and wellbeing.
Massage can help to maintain and improve this standard, and can easily be built into a training routine.
Modern sedentary lifestyles place unnatural restrictions on bodies which have evolved for continual movement, and tissues become tight, shortened, inflexible and unbalanced. Sudden, unaccustomed or repetitive activity - gardening, decorating, starting at the gym, playing an instrument - may cause muscles to tighten further, leading to aches and pains, micro damage to muscle fibres or more significant injury.
The body's natural waste system becomes sluggish and congested, and immunity against disease diminishes.
Swollen ankles, repetitive strain injury, backache, lethargy and headaches have become typical features of modern working life.
Regular massage is of benefit to everyone whatever our level of activity or lifestyle. Sports and remedial massage, chair massage and MLD offer complementary ways to support the body's own systems, prevent injury and illness, aid recovery and performance, reduce stress and promote relaxation and wellbeing.
What will a massage involve?
A first massage will involve a consultation.
There are a few medical conditions for which massage and/or MLD are contraindicated, and some others that need to be taken into consideration during a treatment. So you will be asked for a relevant medical history and questions about your reason for seeking treatment, so that the therapist can identify the most appropriate way to proceed with treatment.
How long does a treatment take?
This varies depending on the type and stage of treatment, but is approximately one hour for a sports massage, one to one 1/2 hours for MLD and twenty minutes for a chair massage.
The charge is per treatment, not the time taken.
How often should I have massage?
This varies, depending on whether it is part of a training routine, treatment for injury, etc.
MLD works best when given intensively over an initial period, and can then be tapered off.
Do I have to play sports to receive massage?
Not at all, workers who sit at their desk or drive for a living may require massage just as much as sportspeople, not least to help prevent problems such as repetitive strain injuries (e.g. carpal tunnel syndrome) and headaches caused by poor posture.
Massage is also an excellent way to promote a sense of wellbeing.
A first massage will involve a consultation.
There are a few medical conditions for which massage and/or MLD are contraindicated, and some others that need to be taken into consideration during a treatment. So you will be asked for a relevant medical history and questions about your reason for seeking treatment, so that the therapist can identify the most appropriate way to proceed with treatment.
How long does a treatment take?
This varies depending on the type and stage of treatment, but is approximately one hour for a sports massage, one to one 1/2 hours for MLD and twenty minutes for a chair massage.
The charge is per treatment, not the time taken.
How often should I have massage?
This varies, depending on whether it is part of a training routine, treatment for injury, etc.
MLD works best when given intensively over an initial period, and can then be tapered off.
Do I have to play sports to receive massage?
Not at all, workers who sit at their desk or drive for a living may require massage just as much as sportspeople, not least to help prevent problems such as repetitive strain injuries (e.g. carpal tunnel syndrome) and headaches caused by poor posture.
Massage is also an excellent way to promote a sense of wellbeing.
Massage with Julie Benham
For all treatments
1 hour treatment: £40
Please note: there is a charge for cancellation without 24 hours notice.
For all treatments
1 hour treatment: £40
Please note: there is a charge for cancellation without 24 hours notice.
REMEDIAL
MASSAGE AT THE 'BACCENTRE'
WHAT
REMEDIAL MASSAGE CAN HELP WITH
FREQUENTLY
ASKED QUESTIONS
COSTS
USEFUL
LINKS
Bencare
www.bencare.co.uk
www.bencare.co.uk
London and Counties Society of Physiologists Register for Masseurs and Manipulative Therapists
www.lcsp.uk.com
Complementary and National Health Council Register for Complementary Therapists
www.CNHC.org.uk
The Register of Exercise Professionals
www.exerciseregister.org
Extend exercise and movement for older people and people with disabilities
www.extend.org.uk
Northern Institute of Massage
www.nim.co.uk
Purple Flame School of Aromatherapy
www.purpleflame.co.uk
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Julie Benham