Christchurch Sports Massage is run from a home treatment room on Cardinal Drive in Hillmorton, and the therapist has made the room deliberately non-clinical, warm and welcoming. Appointments are one-to-one and unrushed. The work is sports and remedial massage for recovery, performance and pain relief, including sports injuries, chronic tightness and overworked muscles. Treatments are tailored to each client, and the therapist's background is in clinical sports and soft tissue therapy, built up over more than 13 years in New Zealand, England and Scotland. Her training includes a BTEC Professional Diploma in Clinical Sports and Remedial Massage, medical acupuncture for musculoskeletal pain, taping and strapping, advanced strain-counterstrain and positional release, and Indian head massage.
The therapist came to massage after leaving a career in policing to raise four children, and first came across sports massage through running events. Clients arrive with muscular tension and also with stress from work and family life, and the therapist's stated aim is for each client to leave feeling lighter and more comfortable. The practice is in Hillmorton, Christchurch.