A sports massage business from Coventry has been selected as one of 100 trail-blazing small businesses in the official count-down to Small Business Saturday, which takes place across the UK on 7 December 2019.

There’s a good chance you’ve probably sprained an ankle in the past at some point. You might have been running and didn’t see the stone, although it felt more like a boulder under your foot, up ahead. It may have been from that game of squash where you kind of knew you wouldn’t be able to make the return but you went for it anyway and the next thing you know you’re on that cold, hard court after falling sideways…

The rotator cuff in its simplest form is a group of four muscles that stabilise the head of the humerus in the glenoid fossa. These muscles are the supraspinatus, infraspinatus, teres minor, and subscapularis. Don’t worry – we won’t be testing you on those names. Each one of these muscles plays a key role in the stability of the arm in movement.

While the commonly held notion that a tight muscle = a weak muscle, more recent research has started to move away from this idea. As it’s already been at the forefront in many ways regarding sport and exercise science, it’s the cyclists that have begun to break down the notion that tight doesn’t mean weak.

Soft tissue release or ‘STR’ is a massage technique often incorporated into a client’s treatment to help assess and treat areas of restriction within soft tissue, whether that be muscles, soft tissue such as tendons and ligaments, or facia/connective tissue.

As a student on a tight budget, it can be hard to prioritise where your money goes. However, most of the time those daily morning coffees, evening takeaways, and unexpected nights out turn in to the most expensive investments we make.