Equilibria Therapies Limited
| Equilibria Newsletter | |
| No 3 January 2004 | |
| ALISON
BALE B.Sc. (Hons) MARTIN BALE MIIST A Healthy, Happy and Prosperous New Year to all our clients past and present. Here’s the New Year edition of the newsletter. Please let me know if this is an intrusion you don’t want. Email me with ‘delete’ in the subject box info@equilibria4u.co.uk and I’ll take you off the list. I’d appreciate your feedback on our efforts, too. Comments about the last issue indicated it was too long. Shorter this time.
Up and runningFollowing my triathlon adventure, Alison and I have taken to regular running, without any particular aims other than keeping fit. After three months we are regularly running eight miles and more. For us it is not only exercise, it’s a first hand education into the workings of the muscles and structure of the body. We see it as a valuable addition to our continuing learning. Product review - ArnicaThis homoeopathic natural remedy (no side effects) is something you should have in your medicine chest. It is useful for times when you have put your body through physical stress from an hour too long in the garden or pushing yourself too hard while training. I also recommend its use when there has been physical trauma, an accident involving shock, bruising or bleeding. I suggest that Arnica 30 pillules are best for general muscular aches and pains, available from many chemists and some health food shops. |
Marathon runners - special offerAre you training for a Marathon this year? If so, have a free treatment. You can donate the cost to your charity.Massage in an important part of training particularly when you start those longer runs. Call Martin on 01628 472802 or email info@equilibria4u.co.uk Your questions answered - What's this 'trigger point' you're talking about?Trigger Points (TPs) cause many
common aches and pains, from earache to tennis elbow, from sinus pain to false heart pain.
TPs are small contraction knots in the muscles, which can be felt by fingers and measured
by electronic equipment. TPs keep muscles tight, weak and contracted, stop blood supply to
the area and affect adjacent muscle fibres. They can last months or years and can create a
cycle of muscle spasm that can create more TPs. TP massage achieves three things:
Which brings us to the problem of
treating pain through TPs. The common assumption is that the cause of the pain is
at the seat of the pain. That’s not often the case as TPs refer the pain elsewhere.
So the trick is to know the referred pain pattern, find the appropriate point and treat
it. Trigger Point Therapy is a specialist field but I have learned the basics and continue to learn, particularly through finding my own TPs and working on them. If you are interested there is book The Trigger Point Therapy Workbook by Clair Davies, written for the layman and condensed from the weighty volumes Myofascial Pain and Dysfunction by Travell and Simons which took over thirty years to write. The co-author, Dr Janet Travell MD, cared for John F Kennedy and was The White House Physician. She died aged 95 in 1997. Yes. After nearly two years of no change I am putting my charge up. As from the 1st March the basic charge will £42 per hour, a five percent lift. The usual discounts apply to those with vouchers, those booking a course of treatments and those taking up special offers Alison Bale is a member of the McTimoney Chiropractic Association.. www.mctimoney-chiropractic.org Martin Bale is a member of the Federation of Holistic Therapists. Website www.equilibria4u.co.uk 57 Oxford Road Marlow SL7 2NN 01628 472802 07966 024561
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