We are a local clinic offering services to Christchurch and surrounding areas. We provide Injury assessment and diagnosis. Rehabilitation.
Sports massage, Remedial massage and pregnancy massage. Personal training and nutrition. Acupuncture/dry needling.
26/08/2026
What a good looking team!
Start your pain free journey now with
RH Sports Therapy
We provide services to help with injuries, rehabilitation, wellbeing and performance
🌟 Injury diagnosis
🌟 rehabilitation
🌟 sports massage
🌟 Remedial
🌟 pregnancy
🌟 Head and scalp
🌟 personal training
www.rhsportsmassage.co.uk
Upgrade your recovery!
You can now add on our private recovery suite .recovery.roomuk
🟥 Infra-red Sauna
🟦 Cold Plunge
This is the perfect combo post massage
Be sure to ask us for details at your next massage appointment!
13/07/2026
Open Day!
We welcome you to join us on the 25th of July
🕑 12pm til 4pm ish
Come on down and explore The Recovery Room
Your very own private recovery suite offering
Contrast Therapy
🔴 Full spectrum Infra-red Sauna
🔵 Cold plunge
This will be the perfect opportunity to experience the space and discuss the booking process.
Look out for discounts on the day!
Appreciation post....
Along with lessons learnt!
Martin came to me 2 years ago for sports massage to help with various issues of pain or discomfort ranging from
Hips
Lower back
Upper back
Neck and shoulders
Martin is a window cleaner in his 70s and although reasonably active was suffering day to day.
Despite my inital attempts at getting Martin to do some strength work to help increase is capacity and ability to deal with his day to day and workload he was at first a little sceptical and stubborn of the unknown 😉
Fast forward only a couple of months and after some basic strength work Martin is in a position of not needing our services and has greatly improved his quality of life.
If you are struggling with your day to day and not currently engaging in regular strength work you NEED to!
It will hugely improve your quality of life and longevity.
Well done Martin!
Here at RH Sports Therapy we offer THE most bespoke treatments to fit your needs!
There's a fire! 🔥
I use this analogy alot to describe how pain can work!
Think of an injury as the fire, and think of the pain or sensitivity as the fire alarm.
After you put out the fire if you dont turn the alarm off it will ring forever!
Injuries can be the same, long after the physicality of an injury has healed you can remain in pain if you dont start to reload those tissues and improve their tolerance and or capacity again.
Avoidance although very normal when we're trying to protect can also heighten sensitivity!
Equally pain is often present without any actual tissue damage!
Why are you still stretching?!
If you want to get better at stretching, stretch more!
But when it comes to injuries it probably isn't going to help resolve your injury or protect you much from getting one!
Many still assume if they get injured its because they haven't stretched enough! This is rarely the case if at all!
Think about it logically, usually void of a specific mechanism or trauma alot of injuries are an accumulative result of over loaded tissues.
How do we improve strength and conditioning? Through progressive overload! By challenging your current capacity and forcing adaptation!
The stronger and fitter your body is the more it can handle!
You won't challenge capacity with stretching!
Anti stretch gang!
16/02/2026
Anterior Pelvic Tilt!
Another term that is thrown around far too much and is used to often blame lower back pain or tight hamstrings!
Did you know though
85% of women and 75% of men have an Anterior Pelvic Tilt completely symptom free!?
What does this mean?
It means it's a very normal occurrence and is simply just a normal physiological position of the pelvis.
It is very unlikely this is the cause of any issues you may have! Its not something we need to fear or try to "fix"
Its also unlikely you can even change it!
Instead focus on building capacity and tolerance via strength and conditioning overall as often many dont lack the ability to cope with the demands of their day to day.
Bird is not the word!
If you've ever suffered from back pain then you are probably familiar with the bird dog exercise.
Chances are if you continue to suffer or have episodes of back pain its not challenging enough!
It can be a great place to start when dealing with some acute pain or discomfort but if you are still using the basic version weeks or months down the line you are massively under loading your body!
Its not not the magic exercise you are lead to believe! Can it help? sure! But usually because its a low load exercise and allows for some recovery and load management!
Get stronger and make sure you progress exercises!
Stop blaming poor form!!
Poor form or technique still gets blamed alot for injuries but the reality is, it probably wasnt that!
We know the body is highly adaptable, with the right exposure, programming and progressive overload your body can handle all kinds of postions and loads!
Equally it may not be the most effective or efficient way of training something depending on your overall goal!
Would i recommend not worrying about those things for someone who Olympic lifts? absolutely not because inefficiency will make things way harder than they should and could be the difference between completing a lift and not!
Reasons more likely for injury over poor form
🌟 Poor sleep
🌟 Highly stress levels
🌟 Nutrition
🌟 Poor programming
🌟 Alcohol
Never neglect the basics of recovery!