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North West Pilates & Yoga Centre offers both Remedial/Sports Therapy Massage and Physiotherapy throughout the North West.

Whilst the Sports Therapy Massage is provided at our Centre in St Helens Physiotherapy is provided in Wigan, Manchester and Preston by top sporting physiotherapists from the world of rugby and football.

Remedial/Sports Therapy Massage

The purpose of sports massage is to restore the full potential of your muscular system, to relieve problems and prevent injury. It covers the manipulation, management and rehabilitation of the soft tissues of the body’s muscles, ligaments and tendons. Sports massage can be an important addition to your workout and training, helping achieve your performance goals with minimum injury and pain.

A massage after training can help you recover two or three times faster, flushing out the lactic acid and build up of toxins in the muscles. The purpose of sports massage is to restore the full potential of your muscular system, to relieve problems and prevent injury. It covers the manipulation, management and rehabilitation of the soft tissues of the body’s muscles, ligaments and tendons.

Christine Moorcroft
Sports Massage Therapist

Ideally, getting a massage once a week is optimal, supporting your fitness or sports programme, improving flexibility and range of motion, relieving tired and sore muscles, speeding up recovery from strenuous physical exertion.

Sports massage is a benefit to anybody, not just sports people. It helps to treat muscle problems of all kinds, not just those of sports professionals.

Sports massage has many potential benefits. Its primary aim is to restore full function to muscles and other soft tissues. This can simply mean easing the tension build up in your shoulders due to long hours in the office or restoring maximum performance to an over trained muscle group of an athlete.

Sports Massage Testimonials

Ever since the service has been introduced at the Northwest Pilates Centre, I have been enjoying one hour (and half hour) sports massages. Initially I used the sessions for relaxation and to provide relief from the back pain I experience.  However as I have recently started training for a triathlon, I'm now also noticing a difference in my recovery time and am suffering from fewer minor strains. Robin Ellis, Chartered Surveyor

 

Three years ago I broke my back and I now have a steel rod and bolts support in my spine, I've been in constant pain. My weekly sports massage with Christine has kept my back supple and I can now manage the pain. I've been so impressed by her professional manner and would recommend her services to anyone. Suzanne Getty

 

Sports massage has been a life changing experience for me. Before I had trapped nerves in my neck and constant back pain, thanks to my weekly sports massage I'm now pain free, my back is supple and I have my life back. Christine has proved to be my saviour, her cheerful and friendly manner has cheered my spirits and her expert hands have worked wonders. Lynn Bold

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Physiotherapists help and treat people of all ages with physical problems caused by illness, accident or ageing. They also work with people who have mental health problems, stroke patients and children. An important part of a physiotherapist’s role understands the cultural, psychological and social factors that affect their patients.

Physiotherapy helps people to improve their range of movement in order to promote health and well-being. This can help people to live more independently.

Physiotherapists concentrate particularly on problems that affect muscles, bones, the heart, circulation and lungs. Physiotherapy involves a range of treatments, including manipulation, massage, exercise, electrotherapy and hydrotherapy.

Physiotherapy techniques can improve your ability to use parts of the body that are affected by disease or injury. For example, arthritis is a long-term condition that causes painful and stiff joints. Physiotherapy can help to keep the joints mobile (able to move) and strengthen the surrounding muscles.

The aim of physiotherapy is to help the body to work better and heal itself, rather than stopping a particular disease or symptom. In this way, it is similar to some complementary therapies, and is often used alongside acupuncture or Pilates, for example.
 

Physiotherapy is a manual that teaches you how to improve strength and mobility by using your body more effectively. Physiotherapists use a range of techniques, but the most common and traditional practices are:-

Massage and Manipulation
Massage is suitable for most people receiving physiotherapy treatment. It is the manipulation of the soft tissues of the body. Different types of massage are used for different conditions, for example: to improve circulation (the flow of blood around the body); to help fluid to drain from parts of the body more efficiently; to make it easier to move parts of the body; or to relieve pain and help relaxation. Conditions that may be treated with massage include neck problems, headaches and stress.

Exercise and Movement
Physiotherapy often includes lots of different types of exercises to help with particular problems. This may include general, gentle exercise such as walking or swimming, or specific exercises to target certain areas of the body. Exercises are designed to strengthen the body and improve your range of movement they normally need to be repeated daily for a number of weeks. Your physiotherapist will advise you about which exercises to do for your condition and show you how to do them safely.

Electrotherapy
Electrotherapy uses electrical impulses (tiny electrical shocks) to stimulate the nervous system. This cause certain muscles to contract (squeeze together) and overrides pain messages to the brain.

There are two types of electrotherapy - transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) and neuromuscular electrical stimulation (NMES). Both reduce pain and help the muscles to repair themselves. Electrotherapy doesn’t hurt it causes a tingling feeling just under the surface of the skin that helps to mask pain.
 

Hydrotherapy
Hydrotherapy is a form of physiotherapy carried out in water, usually in a warm, shallow swimming pool, or special hydrotherapy bath. The resistance (weight) of the water pushes against your body as you do special exercises while you’re floating. This improves circulation (the flow of blood around your body), relieves pain, and relaxes tension in the muscles.

Alternating hot and cold showers, jet sprays, whirlpool baths and jet massage may also be used. They help to stimulate the nerves and stop pain messages travelling to the brain, as well as making the muscles work more effectively.

North West Pilates Centre works alongside Physiotherapists throughout the UK.