Limited Practise Recommences April 26th
Today I talked to Tracy, the owner of The Urban Alchemist where I will be based going forward, and confirmed that I can start practising there beginning next Sunday, the 26th of April 2020.
Natural vs Scientific Medicine: A False Dichotomy
One of my classes at uni right now is called “History of Healing.” Each week we are assessed on answers to questions posed in an online forum. The questions this week elicited a declaration of my views on the relationship between conventional Western medicine, and traditional healing & medicine. Here’s a copy of what I…
COVID-19 Update
Things are getting serious. The medical community are currently in a fervour of tooling-up to handle an imminent surge in serious and life-threatening cases of the covid-19 infectious virus. The Urban Alchemist is closed for the time being and I am suspending practise until at least the beginning of May. Stay safe. Be kind. Wash…
Life Lessons
Why am I back? What have I been doing? Can you book in with me yet? And what am I doing next…? All these questions answered in this post!
Anatomy and Physiology | Experience | Manual therapy | Massage | Medicine | Pain | Remedial Massage | Surgery
What is Thoracic Outlet Syndrome?
Outline Please remember to read the disclaimer advice at the bottom of the page. Thoracic outlet syndrome is a painful condition in which swelling of the thoracic outlet can compress the nerve and blood vessel bundles that stretch from your neck to your fingers. The thoracic outlet is a space between your collarbone and your…
Experience | Fitness | Manual therapy | Massage | Musculoskeletal therapy | Relaxation | Remedial Massage | Stress
I’m getting knee surgery! Meet my temporary replacement, Tim Harvey MST
This time next week I’ll be coming out of the general anaesthetic with a brand new anterior cruciate ligament in my left knee. I busted it 18 months ago on a dancefloor in Sydney (long story). So, I’ll be out of clinic for five to six weeks. Between Monday 12th June and Thursday 20th July…
Fitness | Massage | Pain | Remedial Massage
DOMS (Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness) and how to beat it
Recent research in the last few years[1] [2] suggests that a large component of DOMS is not from damage to the muscle fibres (as is commonly thought), but more from an over-activation of your central nervous system (CNS) when it is not used to so much activity. It basically gets upset at you for making…
Anatomy and Physiology | Body-Mind | Experience | Manual therapy | Massage | Relaxation | Remedial Massage | Stress
What massage therapy can do for stress
An explanation for how massage therapy can reduce stress and stimulate relaxation.
Can a massage help you do the splits?
There are many unanswered questions in the universe. How many decimal places are there in Pi? Is there a unified theory of physics? How does a shepherd count his flock without falling asleep? It’s possible we’ll never know. Some questions, however, can be answered. For example, if a therapeutic massage is meant to lengthen and…
Why you should never stretch your rhomboids (unless you’re in the army)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKWraWYkr9o Reciprocal inhibition is a muscle reflex that sends an inhibitory motor nerve signal to the muscles opposite those contracting. So, if your chest muscles are short (as they are when your shoulders are rolled around to the front, which is guaranteed if you drive a desk every day), then your upper back muscles (rhomboids,…