Kings Heath Sports Therapy

"This is not a badge of honour, not required or needed to make people feel better, so why do it?

This isn't Massage Therapy...

This is closer to "GBH" than to any kind of helpful or effective form of manual therapy.

I show these images to my students as an example of what not to do!

There is no plausible reason or consensus in the evidence to support marking and bruising people like this with scraping (IASTM / Gua Sha) or cupping techniques traditionally used for thousands of years in most massage therapies eastern or western. That is not a good enough reason to carry on doing this in the 21st Century. We move on with our understanding and so what we do needs to move on too.

Suffice to say we never teach our students to ever harm people like this.

We teach them to work with the clients body to help them with their issues, via techniques and therapies that actually do work for the reasons we think they do, making them a step ahead of the other therapists already in circulation, doing these types of treatments."

Daniel Williams
Musculoskeletal Therapist
DNM UK, MTE & SME Tutor
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Who are the toughest, endurance or strength athletes?

If you prefer a gentle approach to manual therapy, DNM is perfect for you. It treats the cutaneous nerves (below the skin) to help reduce pain.

Get in touch if you would like to see how this technique could help you.

Did you know you can help turn your own pain volume down?