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Foot and ankle pain or discomfort can significantly affect your daily activities, influencing how far you walk, your exercise routine, and even your choice of footwear. Possible reasons could be previous ankle injuries, inappropriate footwear and muscle imbalance. Foot Rolling, stretching, working on your balance and supportive footwear & insoles can all help.

We’re delighted to be nominated for this year’s Norfolk Small Business Awards. But we need your help as every vote counts so we’d appreciate you passing this post on to any friends and family who you know would be happy to vote for us too.

A deep tissue massage is delivered at a pretty consistent pace and depth where the individual assumes a passive role. This is a really great way to loosen off muscles and afford some mental time out to relax. A sports massage is a more interactive treatment where the person receiving the massage assumes a more active role, working with the therapist.

The best way to manage your wellbeing over the festive period is to start by checking in with yourself about your expectations. It’s easy to go into auto-pilot and do the same as last year. Make time for you each day during the build-up. Managing stress before and during Christmas might take a little readjustment and planning beforehand.

Physiotherapy is well-known for helping people with back problems but it’s also good for anyone who needs support in managing pain, mobility, balance or motor function. Often people come to me after surgery or an injury. Physiotherapy is also great for helping with long term conditions such as arthritis, neck and shoulder problems and temporomandibular (TMJ) issues.

In coaching, we explore your thoughts and feelings so you can identify beliefs and thought patterns that might affect how you feel about yourself. In turn, we can work on developing skills to help you manage those thoughts and feelings when they’re present so that they have less of an impact on your life.

A common misconception about massage is that it's only part of a spa day and intended for pampering yourself. While this may be true for some people, it is most frequently a tool for stress reduction and pain relief. Massage is a general term for pressing, rubbing and manipulating your skin, muscles, tendons, ligaments and fascia in order to improve wellbeing or health.

Acupuncture can help to boost your immune system, detoxify the body and helps your body ease from the summer months and into the winter.This can help to prevent possible cold or flu-like symptoms and it can also unblock stagnant points in meridians that cause changes in mood during seasonal change.

The Treat Team marked their seventh birthday with a morning workshop on colour therapy by Mark Wentworth, followed by a meal at The Artichoke pub. According to the Colour PsychoDynamics® methodology, we each have a personal colour which helps us to understand who we are and how and why we respond to situations in the way that we do.