By Paola Bassanese 5th February 2012: London is covered by deliciously creamy snow resembling marzipan icing on a cake. If you walk through thick snow, the extra effort and the colder temperature helps you burn additional 3-7% more calories. For a blow-by-blow account of how many calories you can burn snow walking, Walk About [...]
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Massage for frozen shoulder: part two
By Paola Bassanese Continuing treatment with client with frozen shoulder, with the realisation that it is near impossible to categorise people into neat boxes. If you look at youtube videos from specialists on frozen shoulder, the manipulation they demonstrate may work for some cases and for others they won’t. Having said that, I have full [...]
Video tutorial: cheeks facelift massage
In this video tutorial you will learn a useful technique to lift the muscles on top of the cheekbones and to smooth out the lines around the mouth.
Looking for a Valentine’s Day present?
This year do something nice, interactive, fun and useful with your partner on Valentine’s day: learn a new skill, have a laugh, intensify your relationship. How? By booking a massage workshop. You only need 2 hours out of your busy schedule to learn a life skill that will give you plenty to talk about and [...]
Massage for frozen shoulder: part one
By Paola Bassanese I am currently seeing a client with frozen shoulder. The client had the same syndrome on the other shoulder a few years ago and what is really frustrating is that it takes between 6 months to 2 years to gain full functionality back. Listening to the client is paramount: my client requested [...]
Comment: Massage therapist born without arms to work at the London Olympics
Comment by Paola Bassanese In the Daily Mail, a news item stood out on 24th January: among the news about the Olympics, there was a heard-warming story about Sue Kent who has become the official massage therapist for the British Paralympics Team. Sue, who is based near Swansea, started working as a massage therapist three [...]
