Applesea Therapies

Can you relate?

You’re feeling like you’re stuck wanting to do more but scared anything will flare you up
You’re afraid of movement and feel stiff and achy (perhaps despite being hypermobile)
You feel drained and like pain dictates your days or how much you can cope with
Sleep isn’t restful or restorative for you, you wake with brain fog and low energy
You’re wondering where you’ll find the energy to do another school run/bedtime/dinner-that-no-one-eats

I’ve been there too. And it can be super hard dragging yourself out of this space where life feels like work-chores-parenting-sleep-repeat.

Look, I can’t promise a magic quick fix – I wish I could but the reality is, with chronic pain and illness, things take time. You’ll have good days and bad days along the way, and sometimes it might feel like you’re making no progress. A lot of the time, with chronic illness, there is no “getting better” – this is our lives. 

What I can promise is dedication to helping you relieve any muscular and fascial tension, overcome fear of movement and support you to get to a point where you’ve got more energy and less pain. I do strongly believe that we can have more good days than bad, we can learn how to support ourselves so we can do the stuff we want without spending the next two days in bed and we can live happy, fulfilled lives. 

I’ve seen it happen with the people I treat.  

After 3 to 4 sessions people are feeling:

Lighter, with reduced pain levels and more fluid movement
Like movement isn’t scary, it’s achievable and beneficial
Like sleep actually restores them and they wake up feeling refreshed
And like they’ve got the energy to parent the way they want to around those tricky transition moments

I’m not just about a routine treatment and off you go. 

I’ll do an in-depth consultation with you so I can learn about what’s causing your pain. We’ll do some range of motion testing to check any theories I have about where the pain is coming from and I’ll share any insights I have about exercises, self care or rehab type work which can support you. We’ll also set some benchmarks to work towards, so we can check that I’m helping you make progress and real change – these could be as simple as “able to walk to the shops and back without pain”.

In the massage I’ll use the skills and tools which I think will best support your body in that moment:
If you’re in a flare we’ll pair everything right back, we’ll do light holds, traction and stillness to allow your nervous system to reset.
If you’re feeling good, we’ll work with the fascia, heat and trigger points to ease out any stuck areas and get your body moving more fluidly.

At the beginning, we’ll work together closely for 4-6 sessions, so we can get you to the point where you feel balanced, more energetic and your pain is decreasing. Then we can discuss whether keeping a regularly monthly or quarterly maintenance treatment feels right for you. 

If you have any questions, or you’re unsure – why not book an initial assessment via Zoom? Then we can see if we feel like the right fit.

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