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BodyFix Therapy, a Sports Massage and Rehabilitation practitioner based in oxford. With over 10 year Do you feel the effects of stress and your job?

"North Oxford’s #1 professional Sports Massage, Deep Tissue Massage, and Sports Rehabilitation practitioner with over 10 years of hands-on clinical experience. We now offer treatments at our dedicated physical location in Summertown as well as a mobile service—bringing expert care directly to you. Experiencing general aches and pains? Or are you on a journey of sports recovery and need expert support? BodyFix Therapy has you covered!"

03/11/2026

One of the most common things people tell me when they finally book in.

“I’ve been putting it off because I didn’t want to be told to stop.”

Fair enough. Your five a side on a Wednesday or your padel on a Saturday morning is probably the best bit of your week.

Nobody wants that taken off them.

Here’s the thing. Stopping completely is rarely the answer. Most of the time we find a version of what you love that you can keep doing while we build you back up.

Maybe it’s fewer games for a few weeks. Maybe it’s playing but skipping the extra hour after. Maybe it’s changing nothing at all and adding a bit of strength work around it.

The goal is keeping you playing, not benching you.
If something genuinely needs a proper break or another professional’s opinion, I’ll tell you straight and explain why. But that’s the exception, not the rule.

Book through the link in bio. Bring your fixture list.

02/11/2026

If you’ve had Achilles, tennis elbow, or knee tendon pain for months, this is for you.

Persistent tendon pain usually isn’t inflammation, despite the term “tendonitis.” The tissue’s structure has changed, so rest and anti-inflammatories often disappoint.

Tendons adapt to load. Removing it weakens them, and pain often returns when you resume activity. Rest may ease symptoms, but doesn’t fix the problem.

Treatment is gradual, controlled loading: heavy, slow strength work. Some discomfort is usually fine if it settles by the next morning.

Recovery takes weeks or months—often three months or more. Many quit around week four, before improvement, then restart months later.

Tendon pain is often worst in the morning or at activity’s start, eases as you move, then returns later. If this fits, get it assessed.

01/11/2026

Being honest with you. November is one of my quietest months of my year, every year.

Race season is done. Summer goals are gone. It’s dark, it’s cold, and sorting out a niggle drops down the list behind about forty other things.

Here’s the bit worth listening to though. Quiet for me means the opposite for you.

More choice of times, including the early and late slots that get booked out in January. Space to get you back in a two weeks rather than six weeks. And honestly, more headspace on my side for the trickier stuff that takes a bit of working out.

It’s also the best time of year to actually fix something. Nothing fixed in the diary. No race to protect. No season to get through. Just time to deal with the thing properly rather than keeping a lid on it until spring.

Every January I see people who’ve been carrying something since October. They all say the same thing. I should have come sooner.

You’ve got about eight weeks before everyone remembers their body exists again.

Drop me a DM and tell me what’s been bothering you. I’ll tell you honestly whether I can help or whether you’re better off elsewhere.

30/10/2026

Someone always finds out what I do for a living. Small talk will do that! within about ninety seconds they’ve turned slightly sideways, pulled a face, and said “actually, while you’re here.”

Then comes the back. Or the shoulder. Or the knee that’s been doing something funny since 2019.

I genuinely don’t mind. I’d rather someone asked than carried on wondering. And I genuinely love helping and advising people if I can.

But here’s the honest version of what I can tell you at a party, holding a drink, with no assessment and no idea how you move.

Almost nothing.

What I can tell you is the thing that applies to nearly everyone. It’s very unlikely to be as bad as you’ve convinced yourself. Movement will almost certainly help more than rest. And whatever you’ve read at midnight is probably worse than reality.

That’s about the limit of it without actually looking at you.

So yes, ask away. I’ll give you the version I can. Just know the real answer takes an hour and a conversation, not a corner of someone’s kitchen.

28/10/2026

I don't particularly want to train in the cold winter months either. Nobody does. The difference isn't willpower. I'm not walking around full of motivation on a wet Wednesday night in December. What I've got is a setup that makes it hard not to go.

The bag is packed. The session is already in the diary. The gym is close. Paddle is the same slot every week, and if I don't turn up, then there are players short. None of that is discipline or motivation. It's just removing the decisions, because the decision is what gets you.

If training requires you to feel like it, you'll go about four times between now and December. If you're planning to keep something going through winter, don't rely on motivation. Make it the path of least resistance:

- Same days, same time
- Your gym kit ready
- You're following a plan to match your personal goals
- Pick a gym somewhere close and easy to get to
- Ideally, with someone expecting you or someone holding you accountable

You can also lower the bar: two sessions you'll actually do will beat four you'll feel guilty about or can't complete. The goal is to be still going consistently next year, and that is it.

22/10/2026

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“I probably should have come sooner.”

I was having a brief conversation with my client the other day, and they said this to me on the couch. It reminded me that almost everyone says it. And almost nobody comes in the first month. They come at month six, or month nine, or after a year of working around something that had quietly reshaped how they move, what they train, and what they’ve stopped doing altogether.

It’s not laziness, and you shouldn’t feel guilty about it, but there’s always a reason to leave it. You’re too busy. It might settle if you wait long enough. Is it bad enough yet? Other things going on.

Then, suddenly, it’s October, and you’ve had it all year.

I’d say two things about that.

One, nobody is ever going to tell you off for leaving it. That’s not what happens here.

Two, the sooner you deal with something, the less there is to unpick. Six months of avoiding a movement doesn’t just leave you with the original problem. It leaves you with the original problem plus six months of doing less.

If you’ve got something you’ve been carrying since the summer, drop me a DM and tell me what’s going on. I’ll tell you honestly whether you need me, a physio, or just a couple of exercises and no appointment at all.

21/10/2026

Nearly everyone I treat with a long-standing ache tells me they think the cold makes it worse. It’s a common belief about pain, but is it the cold?

Here’s the awkward bit. The research is much weaker than you’d think. The biggest UK study on it found only a modest link, mostly with humidity and air pressure rather than temperature, and plenty of other studies find nothing at all. If weather were really driving pain, you’d expect a much clearer signal than we get.

But you’re not imagining it either. Something real does change in winter.

You move less. You sleep differently. Daylight drops and mood goes with it. You sit indoors for longer without shifting position. You warm up less before you do anything. All of those have clear, well-evidenced links to how much pain you feel.

And we all notice what fits our expectations. You remember the cold morning your knee ached. You don’t remember the cold morning it didn’t.

Which is actually good news. If winter pain is mostly about what changes in your habits, that’s something you have a say in.

The weather isn’t.

17/10/2026

“I’ll book in when I start training again.”

This is a common viewpoint for a lot of people when booking a sports massage. But being assessed and treated before starting a training block can be really useful for a lot of people.

When you’re mid-block, every decision is a compromise. Can I afford to drop this session? How much fitness will I lose? Will this hold together for another six weeks? You’re not fixing anything; you’re managing it towards a date.

Right now, you’ve got none of that: no race or plan, and no specific deadline. Which means we can actually address the thing rather than keep a lid on it.

It’s also when strength work pays off most. The single best protection against running injuries is being strong enough for the load, and the off-season is the only time of year when you’ve got space to build that without it eating into your running.

What a session looks like at this time of year:

We go through what happened on Sunday and what’s been nagging. A proper assessment of how you’re moving. Hands-on work where it’s needed. Then a short plan for the winter: two or three things, built to fit around whatever running you’re doing.

14/10/2026

Algarve Portugal. Minimal exercise, zero plans, no posting, and definitely no thinking about work.

I ate some good food (and some bad), walked a lot, swam, played water volleyball daily, sat around, read some of a book and had more than one b**r with lunch. There was no step target, and I didn’t check a single thing.

Worth saying out loud because I spend a lot of my week telling people to move more, and that can make it seem like movement is the only thing that counts.

It isn’t. Rest counts too.

Not rest as in sitting still waiting to feel guilty about it. Proper rest and time away from work or the desk. The much-needed pause when your head goes quiet, and you stop auditing yourself for a week.

I came back wanting to train again and ready to get stuck into work, which is the whole point. If you come back from a holiday dreading it, something in your routine needed a rethink anyway.

The 80/20 thing isn’t a loophole. The 20 is doing a job. It’s what makes the 80 sustainable for years, not months.

Back at it this week. And genuinely better for the week off.

13/10/2026

Running further and faster. Pain settled.

This runner came to me with niggles that kept getting in the way of their training.

After one session and some proper follow up, here’s what they said…

“I can’t speak more highly of Sam. Very personable and easy to communicate with. I was having some niggles from running. He took a comprehensive history, provided hands on treatment during the session and recommended exercises to work on at home. But it’s the follow up that’s been a step above. He has kept in contact with me following our session, regularly checking on my progress and providing advice off his own bat. He has gone above and beyond what I expected. My pain has subsided, I’m running further and faster. He’s done a brilliant job. Couldn’t recommend him enough!”

This is the kind of result I work toward with every client. The session is only half of it. The follow up and aftercare is where things stick and further improve.

If you’re an Oxford runner carrying a niggle you keep ignoring, this is your sign.

Book via the link in my bio.

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