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Pain killer drugs are a quick fix to masking pain and discomfort, the drugs aim to block the pain messages to the brain. Most often your body is in pain for a reason, not just to get in the way of your daily tasks, but because its trying to tell you something, either “slow down” “somethings not working properly” “do things differently” or “STOP!!!”.

Your body can also be in some sort of trauma or has experienced trauma and all it can do is ache and try to let you know you need to get something fixed or at least looked at. Usually pain means there is something your doing with your body that your body doesn’t like, or you have an existing condition that exists just to make your life harder. Drugs are quick and easy, but they act like tucking your issues under the carpet or in the closet hoping that you, or anyone else will notice that theres still mess in the house, its just been moved.

The fact is is that if you keep sweeping things under the carpet or shoving them in the closet, eventually something will give, the carpet will become lumpy and unlivable or the doors will break on your cupboard creating more of a problem to fix then to begin with. In layman’s terms, its best to sort out and fix the underlying causes, and symptoms to help minimize and eliminate pain before it becomes chronic and life gets a lot harder. Massage is drug free and works on redesigning the way your muscles work. Its one of the best ways to keep muscles healthy for years to come.

Joshua Hardidge the Remedial Massage Therapist

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Dry Needling is a technique used by Myotherapists and other specialists to specifically target and needle trigger points. It acts to mechanically release the trigger points to provide relief to the area and muscle concerned.

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Cupping is an ancient form of treatment which uses cups to heat and suck blood and toxins to the surface, to be able to flush through and clease your body. there are different ways of cupping.

Glass cups are paced or moved over the surface of the skin while sustaining suction. Cupping is a relaxing technique used to release superficial adhesions between the skin and the muscles’ myofascia. It aims to flush toxins through the lymphatic system and improve blood circulation within the muscle. Static Cupping Techniques will bring toxins accumulated deep within the muscle to the surface so that they can drain.

History of cupping

Cupping had many names for reasons of the different methods of cupping.. other names for cupping therapy, include “horning”, “needlehorn”, “sucking method”, “fire - cupping”, “boiling bamboo cylinder”.
These signify the different methods used to get the same or similar results. Horning was a technique generally used by shepherds on their sheep, using a hollowed horn from a wild bore or horned animal. The tip of the horn was cut off so that the shepherd could suck through that end, creating suction. They were then placed on areas of the sheep that the sheep seemed irritated with, therefore sucking the toxins to the surface. Later they learned that they could use plug that they held in their mouths, sucked and then placed the plug in to the hole with their tongs, this allowed them to put on multiple horns and leave them for longer, which then became known as ‘needlehorn’, and the ’sucking method’.
Fire was introduced with use of wooden and bamboo cups, where the fire was quickly put inside the cut to suck the oxygen out then swiftly placed onto the area, creating the suction. with technological advancements glass cups were made using the same fire method. Now days you can get rubber plunger like suction cups, and a variety of plastic cups with pumps and valves, and a mixture of small plastic cups with magnetic prongs in the center. All these though, have the same purpose as that of ancient cupping methods.

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A Myotherapist can do everything that a remedial massage therapist can do. However, a Myotherapist has an extra year of study usually in advanced techniques and knowledge of human anatomy and pathology, we also have a deeper understanding of TriggerPoints (often referred to as Knots, or a nodule in a taught band of muscle fibres). These trigger points can be stimulated to relax and in turn release the hypertension in the entire muscle.

Myotherapists assess and physically treat myofascial pain, injury and dysfunction affecting movement and mobility. Myotherapy is applied in the preventative, corrective and rehabilitative phases of therapy to restore and maintain the normal integrity of the soft tissue structures (muscles, tendons, ligaments and fascia) of the human body through the use of massage, dry needling, cupping and advice on habitual behaviours.

Myofascial pain is often not specific and is sometimes described as a ‘deep ache’, ‘tightness’ or ‘tenderness’ in an area. It can vary in intensity and radiate or refer to other, uninvolved areas. Other symptoms can include decreased range of motion of muscles and joints, stiffness, fatigue, weakness, numbness or a tingling sensation. There are many other symptoms depending on the condition and sufferers can have more than one symptom.

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