Melinda Messenger
I had been asked to launch the new show Bingo Night Live in Manchester back in May. I have always suffered with fatigue and have found that sleep is essential to my vitality, and as this job involved working nights, it was not an obvious job for me and is not my peak time to do anything. But Manchester is a great place and I love to visit the city. I did some research about where to go and what to do with my time in preparation for my day time activities.
This is when I found Christian Platts at City Therapy in the Northern Quarter. I read with interest his website after hearing a lot of great things about a treatment called Myofascial Release. In Christian, not only did I find a practitioner, but also a therapist who teaches the subject and currently owns the only accredited Myofascial Release course in the UK. Stroke of luck!
I went for my first treatment and initial consultation and he discussed my posture after an extensive analysis, I realised the areas in need of work. Areas that I never knew I had a problem with. There were lots of subtle imbalances; my left hip was rotated, my right shoulder elevated, rib cage restricted, my knees turned in. Charming! Not information you want to hear about your body on a Friday morning! But he made me realise all the areas of restriction were down to all the habitual things I did in my life. Over seven years of carrying children on my left hip, long car journeys between jobs, and lots of stress in my life including renovating my house, had left my neck and shoulders under constant pain every minute of every day. All this was contributing to my pain, but you just get on with it. Pain is normal right?!?
Christian talked about rebalancing my hips, and unbelievably after the first session they were balanced. Five of six sessions later, my shoulders and rib cage had moved into the correct position. My legs after twelve sessions, sit correctly changing the shape of my thighs. My stomach is flat, and the constant pain in my neck and shoulders completely gone. My energy levels through the roof, my sleeping patterns mean I can go to bed at 11:00pm, whereas before I would be dosing off at 9:00pm. It has been a trasformation, and I still cannot believe that Christian managed to straighten my nose. His philosophy is that is parts of the body have deviated from natural allignment. He will have a go to straighten it. It has been like surgery without the knives.
Myofascial Release has changed me. However subtle the physical changes are, my body feels like it is lifted and free and strong. Recently I shot the pictures for the Ultimo D-G collection. Christian's work really got me in shape and gave me a confidence in my body that without him I would not have achieved these results with diet and exercise alone. My personal trainer noticed the radical changes in body and aimed to complement Christian's treatments through exercise. This got me to my target weight and tone in the space of two weeks. Christian is now my number 1 for places to visit when I am in Manchester, and would recommend everyone visit to find out how your posture could be affecting your life.
Melinda Messenger