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You have rested it. You have stretched it. You may have had it worked on somewhere that spent an hour on the part that hurts and sent you home feeling better for about two days.
It came back because the place it hurts is very often not the place with the problem. Finding that difference is the whole job, and it is why people who have been managing something for years tend to describe the first session as the first time anyone actually looked.
There is a second thing people carry back from something long-standing, and it is not tissue. It is the question of whether it will hold: whether to load it, whether to go back to the thing you stopped doing, whether this is the week to stop being careful with it. That is a real part of what the hour is for: not being told you are fine, but knowing what is actually going on, so the next decision is yours to make with something behind it.
systematically identify the root cause of the problem—which is not always where the pain is felt
True expert in physio, massage and musculo-skeletal issues. J was able to make progress on a really stubborn shoulder issue that I’ve had for years. Would definitely recommend.
You know something is wrong but not what it's called. Point at it instead: eleven regions, and what Jonathan actually does about each one.
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Desk posture, screen height and sleep position. Often referred from the upper back rather than the neck itself.
Assessment of the whole upper chain, then targeted soft tissue work through the neck and upper back.
Overhead load from racquet sport and gym volume, or long hours held in a fixed desk position.
Work into the rotator cuff, chest and upper back to restore range before anything gets loaded again.
Sustained desk posture and shallow breathing pattern. Usually presents as tightness between the shoulder blades.
Deep tissue through the thoracic spine and rib cage, with the mobility work that holds the change.
Sitting volume, lifting technique and restricted hip movement. The back is usually the symptom, not the cause.
Hips and glutes get assessed first, then the lumbar region is released and the real driver addressed.
Running and cycling volume, or the opposite, long hours seated with the hip permanently flexed.
Hip flexor and glute work, with attention to how the hip is actually loading through your stride.
Underused from sitting, then overloaded in training. A frequent driver of both lower back and hamstring problems.
Targeted glute and deep hip work, plus specific things to do between sessions.
Training load, hill work and not enough recovery between hard sessions.
Deep tissue through the quadriceps group and hip flexors, with guidance on managing load.
Sprint and change-of-direction work, usually on top of restricted hip movement.
Soft tissue through the hamstring group and glutes, with a sensible return-to-load plan.
Rarely the knee itself. Load is normally arriving from the hip, the quad or the ankle.
The structures above and below the joint get worked first, then how the knee tracks is reassessed.
Running volume, a change of footwear, and limited range through the ankle.
Deep work through the calf complex and Achilles, alongside ankle mobility.
Standing hours, footwear, and load transferred down from further up the chain.
Plantar and lower leg work, with practical footwear and loading advice.
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No clinic in South West London can say that. Every session is one-to-one with Jonathan: sports massage, deep tissue and injury recovery in Kingston upon Thames. Here are a few of them, in their own words.
Jonathan is amazing. I’ve been managing shoulder pain for a few years and finally feel like I’m making progress in the past few months after starting treatment with him. He has great knowledge and techniques. Don’t think twice.
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Deep tissue work is firm, and there are moments in a session you'll feel. It should never be something you have to brace through: the pressure is worked to what you can breathe through, and Jonathan adjusts as he goes.
Whether one is enough is not something either of you can know before it starts. Something that has been there for years usually takes three to six: weekly at first, then spaced out as it holds. You'll get an honest view at the end of the first session, not a package sold up front.
Shorts, and a vest or t-shirt if the problem is in the upper body. Come as you would to train.
It's targeted soft tissue work, not a spa treatment. If something needs a diagnosis, a scan or a prescription, Jonathan will tell you and point you to the right person rather than work around it.
No, and it is the most common way people arrive: something that has been managed for months or years, rested, stretched, and worked on somewhere that helped for about two days. Length of time matters less than what is driving it, which is what the first session is for. Something long-standing usually takes three to six sessions rather than one.
Still not sure it is the right thing for what you have? That is what the call before a first session is for: it is fifteen minutes and it is with Jonathan, not a receptionist.
Book a first sessionSomething that has been there for years usually takes three to six sessions: weekly at first, then spaced out as it holds. Somewhere in that, the thing you came in with stops being the thing you think about.
What nobody tells you is what happens at the end of it, and it is worth saying plainly, because there are only two things people actually do.
Most people do, and it is a perfectly reasonable end to it.
The work has done what it was going to do and you get on with your life. Nobody will chase you, there is nothing to cancel, and you are not on a list. If something else goes in two years you know where he is.
Monthly, mostly. It usually starts after something flares up and settles into a rhythm once it stops flaring.
Not four sessions a month, and not a plan written in advance: a time that stays in the diary, so it is one fewer decision to make. That is what a standing slot is, and there are three shapes of it depending on whether you have a season, a date, or neither.
Which of those is yours is not a thing to decide off a page. It is a conversation at the end of a session, with somebody who has just had his hands on it, the same honest view you would get at the end of a first session, and for the same reason.
The nine patterns on the maintenance page are what other people actually settled into, each with the person who settled into it saying so.
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