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I am a Sports Therapist and Sports massage Therapist based in Gloucester and Evesham.

I specialise in Sports Massage, Injury assessment and Sports Rehabilitation.

05/03/2026

Changed my training approach this week to look after myself after picking up a ni**le from Saturday’s game. I spent my week focusing much more on keeping pain at bay and making sure I am ready for the next game rather than pushing through, constantly worrying about being able to lift more and run faster. (Which I know a lot of you do 👀)

IT DOESN’T MATTER HOW MUCH YOU CAN LIFT OR HOW FAST YOU CAN RUN IF YOU’RE NOT AVAILABLE FOR MATCH DAY

The exercises I worked through to help relieve my knee pain:

✅️ Slouch 2 x 5 e/s - putting my weight through the ball of my lead foot, relaxing my upper body and focusing on pushing up through my foot and my hips, activating my posterior chain

✅️ Single leg hamstring, foot elevated hamstring thrusts 2 x 10 e/s - pushing through the feel, working through the full range of motion loading into hamstrings and glutes

✅️ Split squat, adductor focussed iso 3 x 15s e/s - working hard to push through my lead foot not just hold a split squat position to keep the activation in my lead quads, whilst also working to keep my leg inline against the band trying to pull me out, getting my adductors working to help stabilise from the medial knee

✅️ Hip hitches 3 x 10 e/s - isolating the lateral hip and encouraging good movement through the pelvis. Really easy to let the quads and back take over with lateral control of the lower limb so this is a great exercise to keep everything honest

✅️ Elevated wall hamstring catches 3 x 6 e/s - working on leg turn over speed but also speed of contraction of the hamstrings to catch the wall and stop your leg from slipping. A nice exercise to work on tendon health in the hamstrings as well as incorporating some core stability

18/01/2026

2026 - The year of testing.

Testing is such an important part of improvement in training or rehab. If you don't know where you started, how do you know how far youve come?
It also gives you a better insight into what you need to work on.

Ive certainly found this, a few eye opening results from this testing session but its given me more direction and motivation.

This is something you can and should try to do on your own but it is a service that we provide and base a lot of our processes off. Come in to clinic, have a play with the gold standard equipment we have and found where you really are at the start of the new year.

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01/10/2025

What an unbelievable opportunity and experience to work with during the European Championships.

2 weeks I am extremely grateful for and will never forget. Learnt an awful lot working with .second.prime.performance

International tour definately being added to the CV ✍️📝

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06/06/2025

KEEP THOSE 'PRE-SEASON SCARIES' AT BAY

With preseason just around the corner, or perhaps just starting, many of you will likely be upping your running load A LOT and your body might not be ready for it.

Save yourself from feeling sore all the time and especially avoiding the dreaded "Patella tendinitis" by checking out these few simple exercises

1: A variation of:
- Single leg leg extension isometrics: get the weight really high on theses (ideally higher than your 1RM) and hold for 30s - if you have some pain thats okay as long as it stays below a 5/10
- Single leg half squats isometrics: a good alternative to the leg extensions when you have no equipment, again do these for 30s each side. A good idea is to do a few reps of these just before and after training
- wall sits: good for building quad and knee strength - work for 30-60s and if youre feeling brave go single leg!

2: Hamstring bridge isometrics
- These are an effective and simple way of preparing your hamstrings for all that high speed running youre about to do - BONUS: no DOMS

3: Single leg calf raises
- Calves are often neglected but ALWAYS important whether you are speeding up, slowing down, changing direction, jumping running long distance or just want to look good in a pair of shorts; calves are helping. Aim for 20 reps each side and see how much you improve through preseason

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10/03/2025

Its great to work with people you share a space with and it was a pleasure to work with Cherie.

No matter how often you need soft tissue treatment its always important to seek a high quality service and one that works for you!

Gloucestershire based? Feeling tight, sore or in need of some help with recovery for that marathon you signed up to 9 months ago?

Come and see what I do for yourself at
📍St Catherine st, Kingsholm, Gloucester
GL1 2BX

11/12/2024

🤝 CLIENT FEEDBACK

Joe is our first graduate of our Athlete Pack Subscription service, where we use all of our staff expertise, time and services to get the Elite Level care within the local setting.

Joe was advised that he may not return to rugby without an ACL operation and was told to give it 3 months and see where he is. He had NO PLAN and no guidance from the surgeon and he was recommended to us for an intensive plan.

We got to work, included gym training, conditioning sessions, physio rehab, Dynamo Testing and GRADED EXPOSURE to return to play sessions for a safe integration to rugby.

Keep an eye on his rugby return trailer to get the inside knowledge on what we did!

- S&C delivery and second hands
- Dyanmo and AirBands
- Muscle Stim

04/12/2024

Isometric contractions, or "iso's" are a very simple and effective, yet commonly overlooked training method that have a variety of uses in lots of different settings.

Not only are they easy to do and incorporate into your training but they will also leave you suffering a lot less from the dredded DOMS meaning you can increase your load day to day, week on week, more so than you could with isotonic training.

Check out the slides to learn more.

1. Wilk. M, Zajac. A, Tufano. J. J (2021) The Influence of Movement Tempo During Resistance Training on Muscular Strength and Hypertrophy Responses: A Review

2. Hasani. F, Haines. T. P, Munteanu. S. E, Vicenzino. B, Malliaras. P (2020) Efficacy of different load intensity and time-under-tension calf loading protocols for Achilles tendinopathy (the LOADIT trial): protocol for a randomised pilot study

3. Barbeau. S, Tahraoui-Bories. J, Legay. C, Martinat. C (2020) Building neuromuscular junctions in vitro

26/11/2024

Chris and I have been working together for the last 2 months in 1-1 strength & conditioning sessions after he came to me with serious shoulder impingement and poor strength in exposed positions.

With individualised, research driven programming, supported by VALD testing equipment providing us with objective markers to help track Chris's progress, we saw a huge improvement in ROM, QOM, and strength in those previously vulnerable positions.

Get in touch to experience personal strength AND conditioning coaching with gold standard testing equipment, focusing on injury prevention, rehabilitation, specific goals, or general fitness.

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12/11/2024

A couple of weeks ago I got the amazing opportunity to work with on a testing day.

Being able to be apart of one of the first testing days ran by the team using state of the art equipment was a great honour and I massively enjoyed the experience.

Hopefully this is the beginning of a new path for me that I would love to be able to go down.

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15/08/2024

With the new season about to be upon us, for some it may have already started, we all know how hard it can be getting back into a match fit state.

Dont suffer from post match soreness anymore, come in and get high quality, indivualised soft tissue treatment guaranteed to make you feel better and keep you playing for longer.

With sessions from just £30, book in for a soft tissue session with me and get a long term plan to help you look after yourself.

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16 Saint John's Lane
Gloucester
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Opening Hours

Monday	11am - 8pm
Tuesday	8am - 8pm
Thursday	8am - 1pm

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http://www.chriswallersportstherapy.com/

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