Chrysalis Fitness

The Effects of Chronic Pain on Cognition and Working Memory:

* Working memory refers to the short term, information retention system which is essential to the skill of maintaining and manipulating behaviourally relevant information.

* Effective working memory function is necessary for guiding behaviour, making decisions and reasoning and planning.

* Chronic pain patients often display cognitive or working memory deficits and are often impaired in the performance of cognitively demanding tasks.

🏡 Home Visit Foot Care Now Available In Stafford 👣

Finding it hard to get to a foot clinic? Caring for a family member? Recovering from surgery or illness? We bring professional, qualified foot care directly to your front door in Stafford and the surrounding villages — no travel, no waiting rooms, no stress. ✨

Our Stafford home visit service is perfect for anyone who finds it difficult to leave the house, prefers the comfort and privacy of home, or simply wants expert foot care without the trip to a clinic.

Covering Stafford and nearby areas, including:
📍 Stafford town centre
📍 Stone
📍 Penkridge
📍 Gnosall
📍 Eccleshall
📍 Haughton
📍 Brewood
📍 Coven
📍 Acton Trussell
📍 Weeping Cross
📍 Castlechurch
📍 Wildwood
📍 Baswich
📍 …and surrounding ST16 / ST17 / ST18 / ST19 postcodes

Our home visit appointments can cover:
✔️ Nail cutting & reduction
✔️ Corns, callus & hard skin removal
✔️ Cracked heels
✔️ Ingrown toenail care
✔️ Fungal nail & skin conditions (incl. athlete's foot)
✔️ Verrucae treatment
✔️ Diabetic foot care support
✔️ Medi Pedi / Medical Pedicure (where suitable)
✔️ General foot health advice

Every appointment is carried out by a fully qualified Foot Health Practitioner using sterile, single-use instruments — exactly the same clinical standard you'd receive in our Shifnal clinic, just delivered in the comfort of your own home. 💛

📞 Book your Stafford home visit:
☎️ Call or text: 01952 872526
🌐 Online: www.finestfeetfootcare.co.uk

👉 Save this post, or tag a friend, neighbour or family member in Stafford who could really benefit. A simple home visit can make a huge difference. 💛

A big well done to everyone who ran in the Shifnal 10k and a big thanks to for sharing my massage post.

I'm still offering 30 minute post-race massages for £10 and have a few slots left this evening (then we're back to normal). Visit the link in my IG bio or https://chrysalis-fitness.com/sports-massage/ and book your slot now, to avoid disappointment. You'll find me at on Park Street.

Race day is nearly here! On Sunday 10th May it's the Shifnal 10k and I have the perfect ways to prepare and recover.

If you are taking part you can book pre and post event massages with Chrysalis Fitness. You will pass us towards the end of the race, at Finest Feet Foot Care on Park Street.

15 minute pre-race massage to wake the muscles and blood flow are £1... or FREE on Race Day!!
Get your recovery going with a 20-30 minute post-race massage on the day or Monday.

From 3pm - 8.45pm on Saturday 9th - £1
7.30am - 9.45am Sunday morning FREE.

11am - 8pm after the race on Sunday - £5
7.30am - 8.30pm Monday 11th - £10

You can turn up but it's better to secure your spot by booking https://chrysalis-fitness.com/sports-massage/

If you want to know more, leave a comment below 👇

Are you running in the Shifnal 10k? It's not long to go but I'm here to help.

Just a few hundred metres from the start/finish is Finest Feet Foot Care and where you can benefit from Pre and Post-event massage with me.

On Saturday 9th, I'll be offering 15 minute pre-event massage to get your blood moving and muscles race ready for £1. On race day, I'll be there from 0730 and you can get a massage absolutely FREE!

After the race, speed up recovery with a 20-30 minute post-event massage for just £5 or £10 on Monday 11th.

You don't have to book but it's better to secure your slot and be certain at https://chrysalis-fitness.com/sports-massage/

Supporting small businesses doesn’t always require spending money—your presence and engagement online can make a real difference.

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Small businesses thrive on community. And in the digital world, that community is built one interaction at a time.

🏃‍♀️ Supporting the Shifnal 10K — From Head to Toe!

The teams at Finest Feet Foot Care, Chrysalis, and Harmony Head Spa are proud to support everyone taking part in the Shifnal 10K this year. Whether you’re running, walking, cheering from the sidelines, or volunteering, you’re part of something that brings our community together.

💙 Why we’re behind you

• Finest Feet is here to keep your feet comfortable, healthy and race‑ready.
• Chrysalis champions wellbeing, confidence and transformation — everything a challenge like this represents.
• Harmony Head Spa supports relaxation, recovery and mental clarity before and after the big day.

🦶 Head-to-Toe Support for Runners

• Pre‑race foot checks and advice
• Post‑race recovery treatments
• Relaxation therapies to ease tension
• Wellbeing support to help you feel your best

🌟 Good luck to every runner!

Your dedication inspires us, and we’re cheering you on every step of the way. If you need help preparing or recovering, our doors are open.

www.finestfeetfootcare.co.uk
01952 872526

I'm not fond of being in front of camera but for certain things, I like clients to be able to have a visual reference. It also comes in handy for saleable exercise programmes and social media.

So, for the last couple of days I've been looking into exercise animation libraries. There are some good animations however, most of them are very much of the gym based, linear exercises, like a bench press. These are great but it does miss dynamic mobility driven movement.

I'm still pondering on whether to fork £out-a-few-hundred for a package. It's also led me to look more a AI. Some interesting results with different models but there are limitations. You have to hae the correct prompt. A description I might give to a client, and they would understand, can have some very bizarre outcomes in AI.

Attached is an AI generated political picture for attention. If you get the reference, give me a thumbs up or comment. I'd also appreciate any comments on the actual subject of the post. Cheers 👍

I used to work in gyms. Throughout my health & fitness career, I've gone in and out of being in a gym and visiting people. The problem I found was... it turned into factory work. I didn't get into fitness for it to be a production line. Now I visit clients.

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And that's what I see in many commercial gyms. Personal Trainers using the same workouts and the same plans with all of their clients. The same tropes about how you should look, with identical classes to get the same effect, with no real benefit to the end user apart from what the industry tells them they need. Kelly, 56 with two grandchildren and a knee injury, does not need to be doing AMRAP burpees followed by pushing the weight of a baby rhino on the leg-press while someone watches and counts, filming for clicks.

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It seems everyone is a specialist in weight loss. However, it's not a speciality... it's what you learn in becoming a personal trainer. The true skill comes after, with constant learning and enrichment for both the coach and client. The Personal in PT should be just that. Although biology follows patterns, everyone is different.

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It's what made me evolve into working with people that have pain or illness. People with solid goals and sticking points that aren't premeditated by 2 weeks in Faliraki but health, wellbeing and quality of life. There are symptoms and causes... you can't cure a symptom but you can treat a cause and that's what I do.

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What has made you not use gyms or Personal Trainers? Why do you use the gym or PT?
I'd love to know what people think. Let me know below 👇