RJM Therapy

Scar Therapy

£55 - 60 minutes

RESTORE Scar therapy treatment can help care for your scar and the underlying tissue. We can focus on issues related to a surgery or trauma injury such as a Knee Replacement or C-Section scar.

How Can Scar Massage Help Me?

• Release Tightness and Improve Mobility

Scar therapy can help to loosen tight scar tissue and adhesions around the scar to reduce discomfort and can be beneficial on old and new scars. In turn this may help with improved movement

• Reduce Sensitivity and Pain

Trapped nerves and irritated scar tissue can have an effect of prolonged discomfort, the therapy may help to reduce pain and normalise sensitivity

• Stimulate and Boost Healing

Scar massage is often recommended by surgeons to help optimise scar healing after surgery and may reduce long term complications

• Internal Scar Tissue

Scar massage is not just about the visible scarring of the skin but also the deeper underlying scar tissue and fibrosis

• Support Emotional Wellbeing

Scar massage can be a way of aiding the emotional recovery and to be able to accept the changes after a surgery or trauma

Your appointment will include a special scar massage-at the right pace and pressure to suit you-plus useful advice for caring for your scar at home, and treatment to support your general wellbeing with my existing physical therapy skills. A RESTORE scar therapy appointment in the first 6 months after a scar is created is helpful (even if you are not experiencing any unwanted complications) but it is never too late to benefit from scar treatment. Contact me and book an appointment today!

Oncology Massage

The main reason people with cancer use massage is because it helps them feel good. It is a way they feel they can help themselves. Get in touch to explain your journey and to see how I can help you.

Massage therapy can help lift your mood, improve your sleep and enhance your wellbeing. There is some evidence to help support these benefits.

Massage for people with cancer might help you relax and cope with:

• Stress
• Anxiety
• Headaches
• Pain

Massage techniques can range from being soft, gentle, and slow to vigorous and brisk. They may sometimes even be a bit uncomfortable. Your whole body may be treated or just a specific area such as hands, head neck shoulders or feet to make you feel relaxed. This is all dependant on your oncology treatment.

Lymphatic Drainage

From £30 - Session

The lymphatic system is an extensive network of vessels, nodes, and ducts that pass through almost all bodily tissues. It allows the circulation of a fluid called lymph through the body in a comparable way to blood.

The lymphatic system is essential for fluid balance, absorption of fatty acids in the stomach, and immune system regulation.

As blood circulates around the body, the blood vessel walls can allow for substances such as oxygen, plasma, nutrients, protein, and hormones which make up the blood to pass through to where they are needed. Ninety percent of the fluid is then transported via the veins in the cardiovascular system but the other 10% is left in the surrounding space called the interstitial space.

This fluid is all mixed up with waste products, plasma, bacteria, and other pathogens, is usually collected by the primary collectors of the lymphatic system and is now called lymph fluid. This now gets processed by the lymph system and lymphocytes.

A failure or overload of the lymphatic system can result in localised swelling known as lymphoedema, this is usually in the arms and the legs but can occur anywhere on the body where the lymphatic system is compromised.

Lymphoedema is a chronic condition with no cure, but it can be managed with compression bandages and Manual Lymphatic Drainage (MLD). Using these together can reduce the swelling.

MLD massage helps the lymph fluid move in the lymphatic vessels to reduce the swelling. Making the limbs feel lighter which they are due to the decrease of fluid retention an example of swollen ankles, just something to help you feel more mobile.

Qualification

Lymphoedema Management for Manual Therapists (LTA Global)

Dry Needling / Medical Acupuncture

£30 - 30 minutes

£45 - 60 minutes

Dry needling is a form of therapy which involves inserting an acupuncture needle into a muscular trigger point to help to reset the muscle fibres in the trigger point.

A trigger point is an area in the muscle fibres that have become contracted when the muscle is relaxed, they can cause a referred pain map that may send pain to another area of the body. These referred pain maps are reproducible so helps the therapist to locate the cause of pain. These may cause headaches, knee pain, toothache and shortening of muscles reducing range of motion to name a few.

Medical acupuncture is different, that is that by inserting needles in very specific acupuncture points around the body, this then affects the body’s energy (Qi pronounced “Chi” believed to be our lifeforce) along certain meridian which there are 14 including Heart, Lung and Bladder to name a few. By inserting the needles connects the meridians and restores the flow of energy reducing symptoms that the patient was complaining of.