Headaches – Massage or Medication?
Luke Norland writes on how massage can benefit headache sufferers: Your body can produce its own biochemical prescriptions to alleviate the pain and...
Is sitting at a desk killing you? Part 2
We have touched on this before. Sitting at a desk is doing you no good. This all seems so obvious to us but it is now, pleasingly, real science. A...
Trigger points – what are they, and why do they matter to us at C1?
Luke Norland, one of our excellent sports massage therapists writes: The dictionary definition of a trigger point is: A sensitive area of the body...
Sciatic pain can be a trigger point in your Piriformis
What is piriformis syndrome? Wikipedia's definition is: Piriformis syndrome is a neuromuscular disorder that occurs when the sciatic nerve is compre...
Anterior head carriage, Crossed syndrome or Student’s neck – and what can you do about it?
Welcome to our most visited, and arguably, most important page on our blog. It looks at Anterior Head Carriage (AHC), also called Forward Head Syndro...
Massage for Musicians by the great Luke Norland
Good musicians nearly always carry injuries. Luke, one of our sports injury therapists, knows as he plays the french horn at a pretty high level. He...
Katie answers the question: What does massage do?
I am often asked by patients: ‘What does massage do?’ Well, I like the analogy of a traffic jam to illustrate the point that, if the fibres of t...