DAHM Academy

Congratulations to Ross AJ Metcalfe who collected his L3 Diploma in Sports Massage Therapy certificate this weekend! All the hard work has most certainly paid off 🎊

Ross has served in the British Army for 19 years and been an All Arms Physical Training Instructor since 2020. Since completing training with the UKSCA (United Kingdom Strength and Conditioning Association), he has worked across a wide range of environments and demographics:

• General population – delivering Strength & Conditioning across Lancashire and Liverpool
• Professional sport – supporting St Helens RFC Reserves, Academy and Scholarship squads
• Military personnel – coaching soldiers across the world, including an upcoming deployment to Kenya in September 2026

Adding his Level 3 Sports Massage Therapy qualification has allowed him to develop his skills and offer even further.

Ross states: ‘My role is no longer limited to managing exercise selection, training volume and intensity. I can now provide an additional service aimed at improving recovery, readiness and supporting continued physical performance.

That might mean helping a general population client recover and prepare for another week of training. It might mean supporting St Helens coaching staff and players around training and match days. Or it might mean helping military personnel maintain physical readiness during demanding exercises and overseas deployments.

The environment changes. The individual changes. The demands change. The aim remains the same: improve performance, manage the demands placed on the body, and keep people ready to perform.’

We wish Ross the best of luck as his exciting career progresses! 🫱🏼‍🫲🏽

P.S…are you sure we have the same 24hrs in a day?! 🤯

📣 EVENT TEAM NEEDED 📣

We’re looking for a team of our Sports Massage Therapy graduates to support the Mackyard Backyard Ultra in Buttermere on Saturday 5th September 🏃🏽‍♂️🏔️

We’re particularly keen to hear from those who have also completed our Sports Taping CPD, as there may be opportunities to utilise these skills throughout the event.

Supporting events like this is about so much more than providing treatment...
✔️ Network with runners, coaches and fellow therapists
✔️ Get your face (and your business) out there
✔️ Build confidence working in a real sporting environment
✔️ Develop your assessment, treatment and communication skills

This isn’t just a one-off event either. We’re continuing to grow our event team and already have more opportunities in the pipeline, giving you the chance to gain experience across a variety of sporting events 🤲🏼

If you’d like to become part of a team we’re proud to recommend…we’d love to hear from you 📩

Another brilliant weekend in clinic with our Level 4 Sports Massage learners 🫶🏼

This weekend built directly on the knowledge developed during Weekend 1, revisiting the joints of the lower body, before progressing on to shoulder and elbow applied anatomy…think bony landmarks, muscle origins and insertions, tendon and ligament attachments, and more.
Learners then carried out thorough assessments and used their clinical reasoning to justify treatment selections…the L4 is very much about developing this element of practice to confidently assess injuries and think beyond a routine massage 🤲🏼

Of course, there was plenty of hands-on treatment too, with learners developing their advanced sports massage skills…trigger point therapy, myofascial release and muscle energy techniques.

If you’ve completed your Level 3 and are ready to take your assessment, clinical reasoning and treatment skills to the next level, the Level 4 SMT is for you 🚀

We’ve been quietly building something... 👀

Welcome to DAHM’s Performance Playground!

This multifunctional space is designed to bring together rehab, performance, education and coaching under one roof. A place where people can recover, learn, and become more confident in what their bodies are capable of…we can’t wait to see the impact it has over the coming months and years.

A huge thank you to Chivers Running Since 1945 🏆 and Brooks Running UK & Ireland for believing in what we’re building!

We’re incredibly proud of this one. Welcome to the next chapter 💪🏼

Sooo…we moved in over the weekend.
DAHM 🫱🏼‍🫲🏽
More coming soon 🫶🏼