Remedial Therapy
Denise is an experienced remedial massage therapist offering professional clinical remedial massage therapy to help improve overall physical health, mobility, and wellbeing. Her treatments support recovery from injury or surgery and can also help manage pain caused by conditions such as sciatica, arthritis, or muscular tension. Clients include sportsmen and women from a wide range of disciplines — from recreational to professional level — as well as individuals simply seeking a therapeutic massage to ease tight or overworked muscles.
In addition to rehabilitation therapy for injury recovery, Denise provides regular remedial and maintenance therapy sessions designed to promote physical fitness and help reduce the risk of future strains or injuries.
Remedial therapy appointments are available both mornings and evenings at her private clinic in Stanford in the Vale, located between Wantage and Faringdon.
Problem Areas Treated
Denise provides effective remedial therapy treatments for a wide range of conditions and physical problems, some of which are listed below.
Muscle Injuries, Tension & Pain
Treating muscle damage, injuries, stiffness, strains, soreness, tension, spasms, cramping and pain and improving poor muscle circulation.
Joint Injuries & Conditions
Treatment of joint injuries to restore and maintain good flexibility and motion, helping to reduce pain from medical conditions of the joints such as arthritis.
Back & Neck Pain
Treating of back and neck pain caused by bad posture, muscle imbalances or tension, stiffness of spinal joints, irritated nerve pathways such as sciatica and disc degeneration.
Shoulder Injuries & Pain
Treatment of shoulder injuries, strains, and decreased range of motion caused by trauma, muscle and tendon strains, inflammation or poor posture.
Pelvic Pain
Treating and rehabilitating dysfunctions in the sacroiliac joint, pelvis, hip and lumbar spine area to relieve lower back, pelvic and hip pain.
Ligament / Tendon Injuries
Treatments for tendon and ligament rupture, tears, strains, twists and inflamation such as tendonitis, tenosynovitis, anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) tears and menicus tears.
Repetitive Strain Injuries
Treating RSIs such as tennis elbow, golfers elbow, carpal tunnel syndrome, rotator cuff tendonitis and bursitis caused by repetitive motions that damage muscles, tendons and nerves.
Irritated & Compressed Nerves
Treatments for irritated, compressed and pinched nerves that result in inflammation, pain and numbness, including conditions such as sciatica.
Poor Physical Performance
Treatments to improve overall performance by increasing flexibility, reducing inflammation, muscle tension and swelling, and stimulating circulation.
Poor Posture & Related Pain
Posture and secondary pain is significantly improved by balancing the musculoskeletal system holistically.
Remedial Techniques Used
Denise offers an advanced remedial clinical massage therapy session that includes a detailed consultation and assessment followed by treatment. The treatment may also include some of the additional technique(s) shown below as appropriate to each client’s specific needs.
Sports Therapy
Treatment and rehabilitation of the soft tissues of the body including muscles, tendons and ligaments to maintain optimum levels of fitness that can benefit sports men and women and anyone else participating in physical activities. Read more
Deep Tissue Massage
Advanced massage techniques working on the deeper layers of muscles and connective tissues to rehabilitate injuries, relieve chronic tension and pain, and restore movement. Read more
Medical Acupuncture
A technique incorporating the concepts of neuroscience involving the insertion of very fine needles to encourage the body to produce natural substances, such as pain-relieving endorphins. Read more
Supportive & Kinesiology Taping
Kinesiology tape has a lifting effect on the skin, improving blood flow, lymph drainage, proprioception and reducing pain whilst promoting healing.
Bodymaster Method
Based on a fusion of advanced massage, physiotherapy and osteopathic techniques to balance the body, remove pain and restore mobility without recourse to drugs or surgery. Read more
Ultrasound Therapy
The delivery of sound waves targeted to specific damaged tissues that stimulates blood circulation, cell regeneration and healing whilst decreasing sensitivity and pain.
Shockwave Therapy
The peak pressure of a shockwave pulse is approximately 1000 times greater than ultrasound and is ideal for musculoskeletal disorders such as tendinopathy and calcifications.
Remedial Therapy Client Testimonials
As a multisport/endurance athlete your body is placed under a huge amount of different stresses and demands, and so injury prevention and treatment is a major aspect of day to day management. It is a running joke amongst my friends how injury prone I am, and Denise has been an absolute life saver in keeping me fit and competition ready. I’ve been competing in a variety of disciplines for over ten years and have seen more sports injury therapists than I can remember, and Denise is in a different league to all others! Through regular massage, new core and stabilisation exercises that she has added to my training and specific injury treatment and rehabilitation, I’ve been able to train harder and been more successful than ever.
Denise’s holistic and in depth understanding of the body is incredible and she has often identified issues which I wasn’t even aware of just by touch, enabling us to adapt my training before they became full blown injuries. Her experience in a wide range of sports is unparalleled – she has kept me on the road for marathons, helped ease recurring rib fractures and disc problems sustained through rowing, helped me take seconds off my swim times and got me back into the gym after bike crashes and riding accidents, to mention just a few.
Her personal experience as a rider has also been an incredible asset – she has come to watch me ride and seen things my instructor hasn’t which have enabled me to make great improvements, both in terms of enhancing my riding and my horses way of going. Denise is a great listener, as well as an incredibly approachable and professional therapist who is deeply committed to all the athletes she treats. I could not achieve half of what I do without her!
I go to Denise for all my aches and pains, more from an equestrian perspective and wouldn’t use anyone else. She is thorough and is honest if she thinks I do need to come back to have more work done. Lovely lady, who takes her time making sure you walk out feeling better!
Denise is by far one of the most professional and knowledgeable Sports Therapist I have known. If you book in to see her I can guarantee you will not be disappointed as her assessment and treatment protocols are first class.
Denise has the amazing ability to help people where others can’t. She treats what she finds intuitively and this process works exceptionally well for all of her patients as everybody improves, not just physically but psychologically and emotionally as well because she is very empathetic as well as a great listener. If you are struggling to find a therapist then please get in contact with Denise as I guarantee you will not be disappointed as she is a true professional.
I am an Osteopath and I often refer my own patients to Denise before they have a consultation with myself as she basically decides if I actually need to get involved in the process and most of the time my skills are not required because she has basically fixed them.
Denise has trained for many years and is qualified in a variety of disciplines of Sports therapy and Remedial Massage therapy so she is very experienced and a knowledgable practitioner.
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