Charles Baron Deep Tissue Massage

About

Heswall, Chester and North East Wales locations.

Raynor Method - amazingly effective

Appropriate for back, neck, shoulder, hip and other pain. Sports, cycling, running, gardening, work, posture or any other cause.

Great for stress and insomnia.

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Your Therapist

I'm Charles Baron.

I have recently taken early retirement from my job as a consultant physician, working in the speciality of occupational medicine. I have consulted with thousands of patients over many years and helped them to address and avoid health problems caused by work and to overcome problems that interfere with working. Many of these problems are related to musculoskeletal issues (muscles, tendons, ligaments, joints and bones). I have also advised many people who have stress and anxiety problems that manifest themselves in physical symptoms of pain and reduced mobility, due to muscle tension. Headache, neck pain, low back pain and insomnia are all common in this group.

Having spent many years in medical practice, I became interested in finding a more hands on way of helping people with these problems. I researched a number of physical therapies and was impressed by Raynor massage, the principles of which impressed me and made sense medically. I enrolled with the training course provided by Dave Taylor. Since training, I have found that the system really does work. As a cyclist with a sore shoulder, I can vouch for how effective the Raynor technique has been on me personally.

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The Raynor Technique

Raynor massage is a deep tissue therapeutic technique with one goal, to find and release tension in the body.

It is definitely not a "pamper" type of massage or one during which you will fall asleep.

The therapist will be using a precise system to apply the appropriate amount of pressure and depth to the areas causing problems.

This technique is tailored to the specific needs of the individual client and so is suitable for people of any age or level of fitness.

The Raynor technique has been found to be very effective for a range of different problems that can cause chronic or persistent pain, including low back pain, neck pain, shoulder pain and hip pain. Also persistent pain caused by sports and other injuries, overuse injuries and postural problems.

It is suitable for people of any age and any level of fitness.

More about the Raynor Technique and its origins

The Raynor technique was developed in Australia by Brandon Raynor. He had studied a number of Eastern methods including Shiatsu, Accupressure and Reflexology. He was trained in deep tissue massage but the breakthrough came in the realisation that therapeutic massage needs to focus on a single goal. This is finding and releasing tension anywhere in the body. He incorporated some of the Eastern techniques and philosophy into his own method. He also recognised that tension in one part of the body can cause and maintain tension in other parts and that it is essential to find and release problems (or blockages) in those other areas. These are often in the extremities, the feet and calves, the hands and forearms and the head. That's what makes the Raynor technique quite different from most ordinary sports massages and most other forms of deep tissue massage.

My medical take on how Raynor massage works

I've studied and practiced medicine for many years before I recently retired. I have consulted with many patients with chronic pain. Even when the primary cause is known and understood (perhaps a trapped nerve in the neck or back, or an arthritic condition in one or more joints), there is usually muscle tension and pain extending from the area of the primary cause. This is because it is impossible to relax completely when you are in pain. Unfortunately, tensing muscles, often unintentionally, makes them even more painful, and the tension can spread to nearby structures. A vicious cycle that makes things worse. In addition, if we have pain in one part of the body, we tend to favour another. This affects posture and movement causing tension in structures some distance away. So, for example, a twisted ankle can cause neck and shoulder pain.

Anyone who has had cramp will know that squeezing, pummelling and stretching the affected muscle can bring relief. By seeking out, working on and stretching all these related areas of tension in the whole body, the Raynor therapist can gradually break into the vicious cycle that makes things much worse. Anyone and everyone gets these problems from time to time. Cyclists get sore shoulders and hamstrings, runners sore feet, calves and hips, gardeners sore backs, sedentary office workers sore necks, mothers carrying children - sore backs and shoulders, and so on. Older people can be less active and develop stiff and painful muscles. No-one is really immune. The vicious cycle keeps the pain going long after any injury has taken place. Raynor massage techniques can often help people of any age and level of fitness to overcome the problems described by getting rid of the residual tension (the tension that stays in the muscles and other soft tissue structures, even when we are resting and not using them).

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Prices

Introductory offer (first appointment only) £25 for 1 hour, includes health discussion and full body massage.

Subsequent appointments £37.50 per hour.

Home Visits are possible within a 10 minute drive of each centre (Heswall, Chester, Mold) for clients with disabilities causing mobility and transport problems (add £5 to above prices).