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🏆 Become a qualified Sports Massage Therapist, from beginner to pro!
📚 Enhance your skills with specialised manual therapy CPD Courses.
🌍 Learn from esteemed Osteopath Becky Tyler & her expert team.
✅ All courses accredited by Active IQ.

15/10/2026

Your thumbs need to last your entire career. Are you putting them under unnecessary strain? 👀

Manual therapists, here’s a simple adjustment that could make your treatments more efficient and sustainable.

Instead of forcing pressure through your thumb, Becky demonstrates how to relax your working hand, support it with your opposite hand and use your body weight to generate pressure.

The result?

✅ Less unnecessary strain on your thumb
✅ More efficient use of your body weight
✅ Effective pressure without working harder than you need to

Sometimes, better technique isn’t about applying more force. It’s about using your body more effectively.

📌 Save this technique for your next treatment and share it with a fellow therapist whose thumbs could do with a break.

08/10/2026

Three SPORTTAPE kinesiology tapes. One final ranking.

For the last part of our review, Becky and Laura put the SPORTTAPE branded tape and Platinum tape to the test, then compared all three side by side.

There were some clear differences in how they felt on the skin, how supportive they felt and how the different finishes compared.

One of the biggest standouts was how light and smooth one of the tapes felt, while still feeling supportive. They also felt it would be less likely to absorb water compared with some of the others.

And the scissors also got a very positive review.

So after testing all three, which one came out on top?

Watch to the end for Becky and Laura’s final ranking.

Products gifted by . All opinions are our own.

07/10/2026

Putting SPORTTAPE’s new pre-cut kinesiology tape to the test.

After unboxing the products in Part 1, Becky and Laura wanted to get hands-on with SPORTTAPE’s new pre-cut tape and see how it actually felt to use.

First impressions?

The backing peeled away easily without coming off too quickly, the tape felt good under the hands, it had a decent amount of pull and, once applied, it was already sticking well.

That balance matters. If the backing comes away too easily, it can make the tape harder to manoeuvre and much easier to stick to itself.

So far, a positive first impression of SPORTTAPE’s new pre-cut option.

Next up, we compare the SPORTTAPE branded roll with the Platinum tape to see how they feel side by side.

Products gifted by . All opinions are our own.

06/10/2026

A little while ago we shared our thoughts on what makes a good kinesiology tape.

saw the reel and kindly sent us a box of products to try for ourselves.

Inside we’ve got their kinesiology tape scissors, SPORTTAPE branded and Platinum kinesiology tape, plus something that immediately caught our attention: pre-cut kinesiology tape.

For therapists working in environments where time matters, that could be genuinely useful. Becky regularly tapes riders at British Superbike events, where sometimes you need to get the job done and get them back on the bike quickly.

So, first impressions are positive… but we’re not stopping at the unboxing.

Next up, Becky and Laura put the pre-cut tape to the test.

Thanks to for sending the products over. They were gifted to us to try, but all opinions in this series are our own.

05/10/2026

Sometimes a new direction starts with simply trying something out.

Si works as an IT consultant and is also a mum of two, but after experiencing the benefits of Sports Massage herself, she wanted to understand more about it and explore whether it could become something she offers to others.

After joining us for an introductory course in the summer, she enjoyed it so much that she decided to take the next step.

Now she’s working towards building the skills and confidence to potentially offer Sports Massage as a service from home alongside her existing career.

Another completely different starting point, but the same goal of learning something new and seeing where it could lead.

Interested in starting your own Sports Massage journey?

Drop us a message or visit the website to find out more.

04/10/2026

Your patient isn’t static. So why should your treatment always be?

Dry cupping can be used for more than simply placing cups over an area and leaving them there.

By combining cupping with movement, you can work through the area while the patient performs the movement that is restricted or provoking their symptoms.

In this example, Becky uses the cups alongside movement through the lower back, creating a pin-and-stretch style approach rather than treating the area purely in a stationary position.

The point isn’t to put cups everywhere and hope you hit the right spot.

It’s to think about why you’re using them, where you’re using them and how movement could become part of the treatment.

Therapists, are you already combining movement with dry cupping?

Gloves or no gloves?What started as a simple question in one of Becky’s reels turned into a really interesting discussio...
01/10/2026

Gloves or no gloves?

What started as a simple question in one of Becky’s reels turned into a really interesting discussion between therapists.

Some spoke about tactile feedback and preferring direct skin contact. Others raised patient comfort, infection control, wet cupping and the practical reasons they choose to wear gloves.

And that’s really the point of this post.

There isn’t always one answer that fits every treatment, every therapist or every patient.

So we’ve pulled together some of the different viewpoints from the conversation and added a little more context around them.

Have a read through and then let us know where you stand.

Do you usually wear gloves during manual therapy, avoid them where possible, or does it completely depend on the treatment?

27/09/2026

Gloves or no gloves when performing manual therapy? 🧤

There are times Becky prefers direct skin-on-skin contact, and others where wearing gloves simply makes more sense.

Cuts, skin conditions, massage mediums… and yes, sometimes avoiding someone else’s peeling skin ending up under your nails. 😬

Ultimately, there isn’t one answer for every therapist or every treatment.

So let’s open this one up to the therapists…

Gloves, no gloves, or does it depend on the treatment?

Tell us what you do in your practice 👇

24/09/2026

Working with shoulder restriction? Save this one.

In this seated shoulder articulation, the first priority is making sure the patient’s arm is fully supported so they can actually relax into the movement.

From there, you can work through different ranges of the glenohumeral joint — flexion, extension, abduction, adduction and rotation — while feeling where the shoulder moves freely and where it starts to feel restricted.

Once you find that restriction, you can gently work into the barrier, reset, and reassess.

The aim isn’t to force more range.

It’s to support the patient, explore the movement and work with what you find.

Save this technique for later if shoulder articulation is part of your treatment toolkit.

22/09/2026

For Autumn, Sports Massage is a chance to turn an interest in sport into something more.

Currently studying at Nottingham Trent University, she joined our latest Level 3 Sports Massage course to try something new, build practical skills and explore the possibility of a future career in the industry.

One of the things we love about this latest group is just how different everyone’s starting point is.

Over the coming weeks, we’ll be following their progress and catching up with some of our learners again after their assessments to see where the journey has taken them.

Interested in starting your own journey into Sports Massage?

Drop us a message or visit the website to find out more.

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