1 April 2025, 19.00 – 21.00

Online

A tight muscle doesn’t necessarily need stretched - it could possibly be tight for a good reason - its trying to prevent itself from injury.  If you aren’t reading the signals that a muscle needs strengthened, it going to bypass your brain and tighten up itself in a desperate effort to prevent injury and you (unknowingly)  might be switching that muscle off by stretching it and leading yourself, or someone else, towards a very painful injury.  People get fearful when they feel their pain is outwith their control and it doesn’t always have to be that way

 

But don’t worry - its not complicated.  You don’t even need to know muscle names, you just need to know the actions of the joint to tell if it is weak and struggling, or over worked and tired.  Sometimes you can see it by just looking at it using imaginary plumb lines - both vertical and horizontal.  Know what a balanced joint looks like and you can spot an imbalance visually or by testing the action.  Learn how this simple concept can be put into your practice easily making a huge difference to you and your clients.  

 

Theresa Tait has experienced major joint imbalances in her life, being born with severe hip dislocation in both hips, her right femur had no connection to the pelvis at all and was given poor advice from childhood making her body full of imbalances as she walked with a permanent “waddle”.  She trained as a massage therapist and then took her passion further when she learned that stretching and sometimes massage wasn’t helping her condition and then trained with John Gibbons, Bettina Karsten, Functional Patterns, Conor Harris learning more about strength and conditioning and joint imbalances.  Theresa is also used as an expert witness in legal cases when injury has happened during massage as a result of poor education and feels strongly that it shouldn’t be the case and is determined to show everyone more about their own and other peoples joints - fear only leads to poor decision making and no one should be scared of moving their own bodies.  Theresa works holistically and has managed to completely change her own body from playing “whack a mole” with her aches and pains to enjoying just about any activity she feels like having a go at and wants everyone to feel similar.