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BodyFix Therapy, a Sports Massage and Rehabilitation practitioner based in oxford. With over 10 year Do you feel the effects of stress and your job?
"North Oxford’s #1 professional Sports Massage, Deep Tissue Massage, and Sports Rehabilitation practitioner with over 10 years of hands-on clinical experience. We now offer treatments at our dedicated physical location in Summertown as well as a mobile service—bringing expert care directly to you. Experiencing general aches and pains? Or are you on a journey of sports recovery and need expert support? BodyFix Therapy has you covered!"
Take a behind-the-scenes look at a sports massage session with a client experiencing stiffness and pain in the right upper back, neck, and shoulder.
If this sounds like what you need, send me a message—let's work towards relief together!
A footballer came to me with cramping pain in his legs and a big match coming up.
Cramping in games is one of the most frustrating things to deal with. It feels random, it hurts a lot, and it has a habit of turning up at exactly the moment you need your legs most. The standard advice of drink more water and eat a banana rarely fixes it, for reasons I’ll get into on Saturday.
We did what I do with everyone. A proper assessment. Hands on work where it was needed. A clear plan for the build up to the game.
He played the match with no cramping. And felt even better after it, not worse like he usually would.
That last part is important. Getting through a game is one thing. Coming off the pitch feeling good is what is telling me we are working on the correct things.
Early season is when this sort of thing shows up, because people come back from the summer and go straight into full pace games.
If you’ve got a match, a race or anything with a date on it and something’s not right, drop me a DM. The sooner you get in touch, the more we’ve got to work with.
Have a great weekend people😊😊😊
23/09/2026
35 today, and ten years into doing this. So here are five things the job has taught me.
1. Pain is far more complicated and far less frightening than most people are told. Hurt and harm are not the same thing.
2. The best plan is the one someone actually sticks to. Two exercises done for six weeks beats eight done for four days.
3. Listening does more than technique. Most people have never been properly asked what’s going on.
4. Consistency beats intensity. Nail the basics most of the time and relax about the rest.
5. Life is short. Eat well, see live music, go away, spend time with people you love. Your health is there to let you do those things, not to replace them.
Thank you to everyone who’s trusted me with their aches, niggles and injuries over the years. I genuinely don’t take it for granted.
Right. Cake.
18/09/2026
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The reviews I’m proudest of aren’t the ones just about the session itself.
They’re the ones where someone mentions they’d tried a few other places first.
Because this tells me two things: one, they’d been let down so many times that they had low expectations by the time they got to me. And two, something about how this went was different enough to be worth writing about.
It’s rarely only the massage/treatment technique. When I read through the reviews again, the same handful of things come up—being properly listened to and having it explained. Pressure that was firm without being something to endure. A short plan that fitted around a real life. A message a few days later, checking in.
None of that is overcomplicated. It’s just what it looks like when someone treats you as a person rather than a body part.
Eighty-plus five-star reviews now, and that’s the thread running through nearly all of them.
Every massage therapist has said this to a client. I said it for years when I started out. It isn’t true.
There’s no toxin. Nobody has ever identified one, isolated it, or measured it going anywhere. The word just sounds convincing enough that it got repeated until it became something everyone knew.
The related one is lactic acid. The idea that it sits in your muscles causing soreness and a massage squeezes it out. Lactate clears from your bloodstream within about an hour of exercise finishing. It has long since gone by the time you’re sore, and it wasn’t causing the soreness anyway. That ache two days after a heavy session is a normal inflammatory response to small amounts of muscle damage, and it’s part of how you adapt.
So why do I still tell people to drink water afterwards?
Because staying hydrated is a good idea generally and it costs you nothing. Not because anything needs flushing.
I’d rather be straight with you about this stuff. Massage does plenty. It reduces pain, settles muscle tension, improves how you move and helps you feel better in your own body. That’s a decent list and it stands up on its own.
It just doesn’t need a story about toxins propping it up.
14/09/2026
Here is some insight into the core values of BodyFix therapy. If you need assistance, advice, or support regarding aches and pains that affect how you move and do the things you love, send me a DM to see if I can help.
10/09/2026
Asked this every autumn, so here’s my honest answer.
Usually no.
Complete rest feels like the safe option because it removes the thing that hurts. The problem is it also removes the thing that keeps you fit. Detraining starts within a couple of weeks, and arriving at a start line undertrained and underprepared carries its own risk. You’re then asking a body that’s done nothing for three weeks to do 13 or 26 miles in one go.
A taper is not rest. It’s a deliberate drop in volume while keeping some intensity, so you arrive fresh but still sharp.
For most niggles at this stage the answer is modify rather than stop. Less volume, different sessions, work into the area that needs it, and something to strengthen it. You keep the fitness with the aim to settle the problem down at the same time.
There are exceptions. Suspected bone stress injuries are the big one, and that’s a get it assessed properly situation rather than a push on and hope one.
If you’re weighing this up right now with a race in the diary, message me and tell me what’s going on. I’d rather tell you honestly whether you need to see me or not than have you sit on it for another fortnight.
If you’re deep in a training block, a session with me looks different to a general sports massage.
We start with the calendar. What race, what date, where you are in the plan, what this week and next week look like. That shapes everything, because treating someone five weeks out is a different job to treating someone with no deadline.
Then the assessment. What hurts, when it started, what it does during a run, what it does after. How you’re moving. What your training has actually looked like recently rather than what the plan said it would look like.
Then the hands on work, aimed at the areas that need it rather than a standard full leg routine.
Then the bit that matters most. What you do for the next fortnight. Which sessions to keep, which to shorten, what to add, what to leave alone. Two or three exercises maximum, because you’re already running five times a week and you’re not going to do eight.
You leave knowing exactly what you’re doing between now and race day.
07/09/2026
Every runner in a race block eventually asks the same question. Do I keep running on this or not.
Rough guide. For muscle and tendon pain, mild discomfort that stays mild, doesn’t build as you go, and has gone by the next morning is usually workable. Discomfort is not the same as damage, and being sensible around low levels of it is part of training rather than a sign something is wrong.
Three questions do most of the work. Does it get worse the further you go. Are you changing how you run to avoid it. Is it still there tomorrow. Yes to any of those means change something now rather than pushing on.
The exception is bone pain. Pinpoint pain in one specific spot, pain that sharpens as the run goes on, pain when you hop, pain at night. That one gets properly assessed before you run on it again. It’s the one thing in running you genuinely should not push through.
Peak weeks are where blocks fall apart. Highest mileage, worst sleep, life carrying on regardless.
The good news is that five weeks out you’ve got time. One week out you haven’t. Deal with it now.
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