Total Muscle Harmony

Day 9 of Adults ANC2026, Day 5 of teams and a 7hr work day for me 🙌

⚡️Shoulders, quads won today. Deloading after a tournament like this is a good idea, swimming, spa bath and a relaxation massage can be good for the body. Rest for a day or two, eating a balanced meal of carbohydrate and protein will help start the process to repair the muscles.

⏰️Most treatments were 30mins or more and becoming more complex.

Here's todays tally:
Clients: 10 treated 🫢
Areas treated:
🦶Ankles - 0
🫷Toes and feet - 0
🦵Calf - 0
🦿Knees - 2
🦵Hamstrings - 2
🦵Quads - 4
🫯Lower Backs - 2 😱
💢Back - 0
💆Neck - 2
💥Shoulders - 6
💪Elbows - 1
👾 Forearms - 0
✍️Wrists - 0
✌️Fingers - 0
🪢Taping - 😱
💉Dry Needles - 8 used
🔫Recharge of massage units - 1
📢 Threats to visit -
🗒Names on the board for tomorrow - none on there when I left as I packed up the board! 🤣

Suz's Tally:
💆‍♀️ 5 hrs of hands on treatment.
☕️Coffee- 1 ltr 🤦‍♀️
🍦Ice cream - Gone! 🥰

🪢Total metres of Tape used so far - 24.5 mtrs 😌
⚡️Hours worked on Adults - 75
🫣Attendance hours 105
🎉Running total of clients seen - 180 in 9 days. We had approx 230 athletes and I had a number of frequent flyers.

🪐 Thank you for the opportunity to work with you during this tournament. I hope you have taken away some more understanding on your game, yourself & your body with regards to what we have worked on together.

💜My heartfelt thank you to Tyson Jones, Belinda Jones and the CPS Team for everything you have done for me to help the athletes, I am truly humbled, honoured and grateful 🙏

👋Until next time our paths cross, do not forget to stretch!
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Day 8 of Adults ANC2026, Day 4 of teams and a 12hr work day for me 🙌

⚡️Shoulders, lower backs, quads are winning today, forearms tried, but didn't reach the lofty count height this time. Standing or sitting for hours are what many are saying is the reason.

⏰️Most treatments were 30mins or more and becoming more complex.

Here's todays tally:
Clients: 21 treated 🫢
Areas treated:
🦶Ankles - 2
🫷Toes and feet - 2
🦵Calf - 2
🦿Knees - 3
🦵Hamstrings - 8
🦵Quads - 10
🫯Lower Backs - 10
💢Back - 6
💆Neck - 7
💥Shoulders - 13
💪Elbows - 2
👾 Forearms - 4
✍️Wrists - 4
✌️Fingers - 1
🪢Taping - 2.5 mtrs 🫢
💉Dry Needles - 4 used
🔫Recharge of massage units - 1
📢 Threats to visit - 3
🗒Names on the board for tomorrow - none on there when I left.

Suz's Tally:
💆‍♀️ 8 hrs of hands on treatment.
☕️Coffee- 2 ltr 🤦‍♀️
🍦Ice cream - I forgot it was in the freezer 🤦‍♀️

🪢Total metres of Tape used so far - 24.5 mtrs 😌
⚡️Hours worked on Adults - 70
🫣Attendance hours 98
🎉Running total of clients seen - 170 in 8 days.

🪐 I have been working on tight calf muscles with this bowler since they arrived. We have used stretching, massage techniques, heat & vibration treatment, ultrasound, dry needles and each technique has been working, think of it as peeling an onion. Each day we peel away a piece with a different technique and we change up the technique used, just in case the calf muscles think they have outsmarted us and we give a day or two break between treatments. Over working muscles with massage etc can be just as counterproductive. The results would be more painful and unable to walk well, let alone walk at all. Yesterday I suggested we try cupping and today we did a cupping treatment that included moves of static, gliding and functional cupping (means we put the cups on and moved the feet or you put the person through their paces whilst the cups are on. We just moved the feet with the cups on) it worked 🙌 giving a deeper level of release through the range of movement, and provided relief to help my client get lower at the foul line and move easier from push away of the shot, through the steps into a lower position at the 4th step - (the powerstep step), and into final sliding phase to deliver the ball with more leverage through the shot, and with ease! The circular are temporary and the colour of the ring from the suction cup is perfectly fine with no stagnant or blocked qi! 🙌

Day five of Teams tomorrow
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Tonight is the awards presentation, and whilst I cannot attend, i am so thankful for having been nominated as a finalist.

No matter what the outcome is...it is a testament to what kind of practitioner I actually am!
I have shifted from being just a massage therapist to a Remedial Massage Therapist to now thinking of myself as an Integrated Practitioner. This has been 32 years in the making, adding more study, practice and helping people by using both Western and Eastern style modalities. I don't have staff behind me to help, I have friends who support and prop me up at times with help. What I do have though, are patients who feel they are getting value with treatment, getting results from the work we do together and that alone is worth more than an award and for that i am truly humbled and grateful 🙏

Day 7 of Adults ANC2026, Day 3 of teams and a 11hr work day for me 🙌

⚡️Lots of lower backs, quads, adductors, shoulders, necks, traps, forearms and wrists were seen today. Standing for hours is taking its on many.

⏰️Most treatments were 30mins or more and becoming more complex.

🪢Tape is still turning up in random places 😱🤣


Here's todays tally:
Clients: 21 treated 🫢
Areas treated:
🦶Ankles - 2
🫷Toes and feet - 0
🦵Calf - 6
🦿Knees - 7
🦵Hamstrings - 8
🦵Quads - 10
🫯Lower Backs - 12
💢Back - 9
💆Neck - 4
💥Shoulders - 9
💪Elbows - 5
👾 Forearms - 6
✍️Wrists - 5
✌️Fingers - 4
🪢Taping - 4.5 mtrs 🫢
💉Dry Needles - 2 used
🔫Recharge of massage units - 1
📢 Threats to visit - 1
🗒Names on the board for tomorrow - noone on there when I left.

Suz's Tally:
💆‍♀️ 10 hrs of hands on treatment.
☕️Coffee- 1.5 ltr 🤦‍♀️
🍦Ice cream - 1 😋

🪢Total metres of Tape used so far - 22 mtrs 😌
⚡️Hours worked on Adults - 62
🫣Attendance hours 86
🎉Running total of clients seen - 149 in 7 days.

🪐More glute engagement discussions today. Bodies are tired, adductors, lower backs and quads are fried for many.



Day four of Teams tomorrow
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Day 6 of Adults ANC2026, Day 2 of teams with another 12hr work day for me 🙌

⚡️ Lower backs, quads, adductors, shoulders, necks, forearms and wrists were seen today.

⏰️Most treatments were 30mins or 45mins.

Here's todays tally:
Clients: 26 treated 🫢
Areas treated:
🦶Ankles - 2
🫷Toes and feet - 0
🦵Calf - 0
🦿Knees - 4
🦵Hamstrings - 5
🦵Quads - 9
🫯Lower Backs - 12
💢Back - 2
💆Neck - 3
💥Shoulders - 6
💪Elbows - 0
👾 Forearms - 1
✍️Wrists - 3
✌️Fingers - 0
🪢Taping - 6 mtrs 🫢
💉Dry Needles -4 used
🔫Recharge of massage units - 0
📢 Threats to visit - 2
🗒Names on the board for tomorrow - 2

Suz's Tally:
💆‍♀️ 10 hrs of hands on treatment.
☕️Coffee- 1.5 ltr 🤦‍♀️
🍦Ice cream - 1 😋

🪢Total metres of Tape used so far - 17.5 mtrs 😌
⚡️Hours worked on Adults - 52 & 1/2
🫣Attendance hours 75
🎉Running total of clients seen - 128 in 6 days.

🪐More glute engagement discussions today. Bodies are tired, quads are fried with some folks, there have been plenty of games played.
🫢 Lower Backs are getting tight with standing so much, then bowling 🎳



Thank you to everyone's patience today, some treatments took a little longer than you may think necessary or waited for me to get to you. I like to be thorough with assessment and treatment. However, i had a first aid requirement to attend, necessitating me to go back and forth to use ice on and off as per RICER protocols and so you might have had a slightly stressed Suz with time management, finding the next person on the board list and treatment interruptions. I apologize to those that feel they had a short treatment session, or a short attitude from me. 🙏

Day three of Teams tomorrow
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Day 5 of Adults ANC2026, Day 1 of teams with another 12hr work day for me 🙌

⚡️ Lower backs, quads, adductors, shoulders, necks, forearms and wrists were seen today.

⏰️Most treatments were 30mins or 45mins.

Here's todays tally:
Clients: 30 treated .. beating yesterday's record 🫢
Areas treated:
🦶Ankles - 2
🫷Toes and feet - 2
🦵Calf - 0
🦿Knees - 6
🦵Hamstrings - 2
🦵Quads - 10
🫯Lower Backs - 10
💢Back - 2
💆Neck - 6
💥Shoulders - 6
💪Elbows - 2
👾 Forearms - 4
✍️Wrists - 2
✌️Fingers - 1
🪢Taping - 3 mtrs 🫢
💉Dry Needles -6 used
🔫Recharge of massage units - 0
📢 Threats to visit - 3
🗒Names on the board for tomorrow - 0 when I left
Suz's Tally:
💆‍♀️ 10.5 hrs of hands on treatment.
☕️Coffee- 1 cup 🤦‍♀️
🍦Ice cream - 0 😱 but I had a donut instead 😋

🪢Total metres of Tape used so far - 11.5 mtrs 😌
Hours worked on Adults - 42 & 1/2
Attendance hours 63
Running total of clients seen - 102 in 5 days.

🪐More glute engagement discussions today. Bodies are tired, quads are fried with some folks, there have been plenty of games played.

Day two of Teams tomorrow
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Things I have learnt this week:
1. To back up my computer 🖥 🤦‍♀️😭
2. How to stabilize a hypermobile shoulder. Thank you for presenting with this, it was a nice opportunity to seek the answer 🙏

Day 4 of Adults ANC2026, matchplay and teams practice with another 12hr work day for me 🙌

⚡️ Lower backs, quads, shoulders, necks, forearms and wrists were mostly seen today.

⏰️Most treatments were 30mins or 45mins.

Here's todays tally:
Clients: 28 treated .. new record i think 🤔
Areas treated:
🦶Ankles - 3
🫷Toes and feet - 2
🦵Calf - 6
🦿Knees - 6
🦵Hamstrings - 6
🦵Quads - 9
🫯Lower Backs - 9
💢Back - 7
💆Neck - 8
💥Shoulders - 11
💪Elbows - 5
👾 Forearms - 6
✍️Wrists - 9
✌️Fingers - 1
🪢Taping - 4.5 mtrs 🫢
💉Dry Needles -2 used
🔫Recharge of massage units - 2
📢 Threats to visit - 2
🗒Names on the board for tomorrow - 2, when I left
Suz's Tally:
💆‍♀️ 11 hrs of hands on treatment.
☕️Coffee- 1/2 cup 🤦‍♀️
🍦Ice cream - 0 😱


🪢Total metres of Tape used so far - 8.5 mtrs 😌
Hours worked on Adults - 32
Attendance hours 51
Running total of clients seen - 72 in 4 days.

🪐More glute engagement discussions today. Bodies are tired, quads are fried with some folks, there have been plenty of games played.

Teams start tomorrow!
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Day 3 of Adults ANC2026, matchplay with another 12hr work day for me 🙌
shoulders, necks, forearms and wrists were mostly seen today.

⏰️Most treatments were 30mins or 45mins.

Here's todays tally:
Clients: 11 treated
Areas treated:
🦶Ankles -
🦵Calf -
🦿Knees - 1
🦵Hamstrings - 2
🦵Quads - 2
🫯Lower Backs - 1
💢Back - 2
💆Neck - 4
💥Shoulders - 6
💪Elbows - 1
👾 Forearms - 3
✍️Wrists - 6
✌️Fingers - 1
🪢Taping - 0 mtrs 🫢
💉Dry Needles - 0 used
🔫Recharge of massage units - 2
📢 Threats to visit - 4
🗒Names on the board for tomorrow - I don't want to think about it, but I am sure to have some lining up

Suz's Tally:
💆‍♀️ 6 hrs of hands on treatment.
☕️Coffee- 1 x 1ltr 🤦‍♀️
🍦Ice cream - 0 😱


🪢Total metres of Tape used so far - 4 mtrs 😌
Hours worked on Adults - 21
Attendance hours 39
Running total of clients seen - 44 in 3 days.

The ultrasound wave therapy machine had another work out today.
*This machine helps block the pain receptors for a short while which helps the central nervous system to relax and switch off. It also warms the muscle and fascia and reduces inflammation.

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