Blossom Consulting

Have you started your Marathon training and realised that it is a little bit harder that you expected it to be? Not recovering as quickly as you would like after your run? Or maybe you want to maximise your training to beat that PB? Whatever your reason might be, a Running MOT is the perfect way to help you reach your goals. The high intensity nature of running can take its toll on our bodies, especially due to our 21st century lifestyle which is defined by negative daily activities including bad posture, inactiveness, deskbound jobs, phones, heavy handbags and high heels. Over time, all of us develop a number of compensatory movement patterns – it could be to get around areas of weakness, or the result of an injury, or in response to a lifestyle-related issue. So, if you think it’s worth spending an hour to have an expert physiotherapist assess your posture, movement patterns, range and quality of movement, to understand where you are now, what the issues ma

Is a good night's sleep a long sleep? A deep sleep? Can we ‘catch up’ with our sleep?  Modern day life is attacking our sleep like never before. Exposure to blue light, higher alcohol and caffeine consumption and stress are all guilty culprits in disrupting our daily rest, making it harder to not only fall to sleep, but achieve sleep of a decent quality.   Why is sleep important? As we sleep, our body repairs muscles, replenishes energy stores and releases hormones that regulate growth and appetite, while our minds organise and store the memories of the day before. It is important that we get enough sleep so that these functions can be completed. Sleep also needs to be uninterrupted and of a high enough quality. Without decent sleep, our bodies do not fully regenerate and repair.   Regular poor sleep puts you at risk of serious medical conditions, including obesity, heart disease and diabetes and above all can shorten your life expectancy. However, regular quality slee