David Hall Massage Therapy in Townsville, Queensland | Physical therapist

David Hall Massage Therapy

Locality: Townsville, Queensland

Phone: +61 438 774 819

Address: 13 Payne Street, Mt Louisa 4814 Townsville, QLD, Australia

Website: http://www.davidhallmassage.com

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25.01.2022 EXPERIENCE "THE WOW FACTOR" Come and experience THE WOW FACTOR at David Hall Massage Therapy and find out why REMEDIAL MASSAGE should be part of your New Year’s Get Fit resolution. Starting a new exercise and fitness regime in some cases can represent a significant financial investment gym and/or personal trainer fees, gym clothes, your time, etc.... Including remedial massage as an integral part of that Get Fit mission can help you achieve a good return on that investment. Just one of many things I’ll show you is that every muscle in the body has an opposing muscle (eg biceps/triceps, quadriceps/hamstrings). When muscles contract, opposing muscles must release. If opposing muscles are too tight or inflexible, contracting muscles have to work harder, often making the contracting muscles feel sore. But it’s really the opposing muscles that are usually the problem not your sore areas. Opposites don’t only apply to individual muscles, but also to sides of the body left v right, up v down, front v back and in v out. For example, if you turn your neck to the right and it feels sore, it is likely that muscles on the left side are too tight. If you’ve set yourself a New Year’s (or any other time) resolution to get fit, those muscle imbalances need to be addressed, or you risk injuring yourself. If you exercise a particular group of muscles and the opposing muscles/sides of the body are too tight, your exercise routine will be less efficient. Part of your exercise energy is being wasted fighting muscles that won’t release properly and other tightening effects of postural misalignment. Remedial (deep tissue) massage aims to correct those imbalances. It will help make exercising easier and more efficient and less painful. I look at the big picture of muscle and postural interaction and don’t just focus on the areas where you feel sore. They are often just a symptom, not the real cause of any muscle or joint pain or stiffness you may be experiencing. But that’s only part of THE WOW FACTOR. I can absolutely guarantee you the best value for money remedial massage in Townsville. To find out how and why I can make that guarantee, check out this article (and others) on my website: https://davidhallmassage.com//guaranteed-best-value-for-m/ If you’d like to book a remedial massage, call or text me on 0438774819 or email me at [email protected]

24.01.2022 Today I sent the letter below by email to the Queensland Health Minister and the Director General of Queensland Health under the subject line: PLEASE EXPLAIN - double standards with massage. Dr Steven Miles Queensland Health Minister and Dr John Wakefield...Continue reading

24.01.2022 MASSAGE - OPEN AGAIN GREAT NEWS. The Queensland Government has finally bowed to public pressure and started using some COMMON SENSE by allowing qualified massage therapists to reopen their businesses. Effective immediately. The Queensland Health directive states: Massage therapy for the management or prevention of a disease, injury or condition provided by a qualified massage therapist, with social distancing observed to the extent possible is exempted from closure. Prior t...o that, only AHPRA (Australian Health Practitioners Regulation Agency) registered hands-on bodywork therapists were allowed to continue operating. This is despite the fact that although those therapists have some massage skills, they are not specifically trained and qualified as massage therapists. Queensland Health still has a long way to go in officially recognising the role of qualified, health-related massage therapists as health care professionals. In its directive, the exemption allowing us to reopen comes under the heading of Spas and Massage Parlours. While a number of spas employ qualified massage therapists, mainly for therapeutic relaxation massage, professional health-related massage therapists work from massage clinics, not parlours. It’s high time the Queensland and other Australian Governments gave fully qualified therapists the proper recognition they deserve. Although not members of AHPRA, we are regulated by the Federal Government and have to meet high standards with qualifications, health and hygiene, first aid, ethics, etc. The Governments’ double standards are mind-boggling. I’m proud to have played a part in the public campaign to reinstate health-related massage in Queensland through a number of Letters to the Editor (not only in Townsville), Facebook posts, emails to politicians, etc. and hope they prompted others to follow suit. If you haven’t already read it, here’s a link to one of my latest posts on April 14. It's a cop of a letter emailed to the State Health Minister and Queensland Health Director General asking them to please explain the decision to shut us down in the first place. https://www.facebook.com/Massagician/posts/3130933850278642?__tn__=K-R See more

21.01.2022 QUICK QUIZ: SCENARIO Craig is a very fit gym junkie and self-employed specialist technician whose maintenance contract at a local nursing home includes a lot of overhead work with cabling and nurse call/help buttons. He has a monthly remedial massage as a body tune-up. He gets the occasional shoulder twinge and back pain from lifting heavy weights at the gym and his normal work. The thorough massage has kept that well under control with a full body treatment that includes a...ll 10 joints that move the shoulders. He has tried other types of physical therapy but found they don’t suit his work and gym commitments and, anyway, he already has a good knowledge of stretching and exercise techniques that help various muscles. Massage always helps and provides virtually instant relief. A few days ago, John lifted something a bit heavy in his small home gym and twinged his shoulder again. This time it’s more painful than usual but he believes nothing is torn and there is no sign of bruising to suggest a muscle or ligament tear. But his massage therapist has been closed down by COVID-19 restrictions. WHAT SHOULD CRAIG DO? A: Tough it out, keep going to work and hope it comes good on its own ASAP. (He’s has a good sense of humour and makes all the old girls at the nursing home wish they were 60 years younger). B: Tell the nursing home he can’t service the vital maintenance contract for a week or so while he rests the shoulder. C: Try some stretches and exercises in the hope it will help and not damage the shoulder further. D: Go to his GP for some stronger pain medication than he can get from a chemist. E: Contact his local State and Federal MPs and request them to ask their Governments to use some common sense and reinstate remedial massage. FOOTNOTE: Federal Member for Herbert, Phillip Thompson, has already been in touch the Prime Minister’s Office to raise the issue of remedial massage shutdowns. See more

19.01.2022 QUICK QUIZ: SCENARIO: Fred is an old-school tiler still working to repair Townsville flood-damaged houses. Unlike a lot of his younger counterparts, he can still work a long day, but age and constantly being on his knees and bent over has left him with a lot of muscle aches and pains. He has tried other Allied Health physical therapists, but he doesn’t like his bones being cracked or having to do a lot of home exercises. The constant flood work stops Fred going to appointme...nts before about 4.30pm. His occasional visits, as needed, to a remedial therapist for a thorough massage relieves his pain and allows him to keep working. It’s time for another massage but his therapist has been shut down by COVID-19 restrictions. WHAT SHOULD FRED DO? A: Take time off with no income and hope the pain goes away. B: Go to his GP for strong pain medication. Last time he did that he started becoming addicted, but stopped in time. C: Go to the local hospital emergency ward and hope for a pain-killing injection. At least he will get to sit in the waiting room for several hours as a low priority patient and have a rest, even though his back will ache even more. D: Tell the owner of the flooded house, still waiting to get back home after more than 12 months, to try to find another tiler. E: Contact his local State and Federal MPs and request them to ask their Governments to use some common sense and reinstate remedial massage. FOOTNOTE: Federal Member for Herbert, Phillip Thompson, has already been in touch the Prime Minister’s Office to raise this issue. See more

18.01.2022 GREAT NEWS. The Queensland Government has finally bowed to public pressure and started using some COMMON SENSE by allowing qualified massage therapists to reopen their businesses. Effective immediately. The Queensland Health directive states: Massage therapy for the management or prevention of a disease, injury or condition provided by a qualified massage therapist, with social distancing observed to the extent possible is exempted from closure. Prior to that, only AHPRA (A...ustralian Health Practitioners Regulation Agency) registered hands-on bodywork therapists were allowed to continue operating. This is despite the fact that although those therapists have some massage skills, they are not specifically trained and qualified as massage therapists. Queensland Health still has a long way to go in officially recognising the role of qualified, health-related massage therapists as health care professionals. In its directive, the exemption allowing us to reopen comes under the heading of Spas and Massage Parlours. While a number of spas employ qualified massage therapists, mainly for therapeutic relaxation massage, professional health-related massage therapists work from massage clinics, not parlours. It’s high time the Queensland and other Australian Governments gave fully qualified therapists the proper recognition they deserve. Although not members of AHPRA, we are regulated by the Federal Government and have to meet high standards with qualifications, health and hygiene, first aid, ethics, etc. The Governments’ double standards are mind-boggling. I’m proud to have played a part in the public campaign to reinstate health-related massage in Queensland through a number of Letters to the Editor (not only in Townsville), Facebook posts, emails to politicians, etc. and hope they prompted others to follow suit. If you haven’t already read it, here’s a link to one of my latest posts on April 14. It's a copy of a letter I emailed to the State Health Minister and Queensland Health Director General asking them to please explain the decision to shut us down in the first place. https://www.facebook.com/Massagician/posts/3130933850278642?__tn__=K-R See more

06.01.2022 QUICK QUIZ: SCENARIO Julia is a highly experienced middle-aged Government call centre worker, at a computer all day except for brief breaks IF she can get them (despite work policy to take them). She is a very caring person and totally stressed from having to deal with a huge number of COVID19 support calls. When she gets home, her back, neck and shoulders ache and she now has regular headaches. One knee has started hurting and she is having carpal tunnel symptoms again in bo...th wrists from her computer work. Julia previously went to a physio who gave her exercises and stretches, then a chiropractor for her carpal tunnel symptoms. The chiro wanted a full spine x-ray then just cracked her neck during the several visits before she realised it wasn’t helping and her pain was getting worse. He didn’t do any massage at all on the arm muscles that felt really tight. So she changed to a remedial therapist for occasional massages that fixed the carpal tunnel pain and kept her going and able to stay working. But her therapist has been closed down due to COVID-19 restrictions. WHAT SHOULD JULIA DO? A: Take time off work. It is a Government job and she won’t lose pay. B: Go to her GP, if she can get an appointment on a Sunday after vital family commitments all day Saturday, and hope she doesn’t just refer her again to a physiotherapist. C: See a pharmacist and hope that over the counter pain medication will help her worsening wrist pain and headaches. D: Go to the hospital emergency ward after work, knowing it is open for 24 hours (even if she has to wait a while) for some treatment there. E: Contact her local State and Federal MPs and request them to ask their Governments to use some common sense and reinstate remedial massage. FOOTNOTE: Federal Member for Herbert, Phillip Thompson, has already been in touch the Prime Minister’s Office to raise this issu See more

01.01.2022 QUICK QUIZ SCENARIO: Mabel is elderly and doesn’t drive. She copes at home with her ill husband’s help. But she struggles with neck and shoulder pain and headaches due to old injuries and her stooped posture. She tried a chiropractor but he manipulated her spine and she could hardly move for a few days and worried her spine was broken. She also had a number of visits to a physiotherapist referred by her GP, but just couldn’t cope with the stretches and exercises at home that ...were recommended. Mabel then found a good remedial massage therapist and occasional visits to him about every six weeks with a good pensioner discount keeps her pain well under control and helps her sleep. It’s time for another massage, but he has been shut down by COVID-19 restrIctions. WHAT SHOULD MABEL DO? A: Go to her GP. She hates doing that because the GP is always so busy. And the last lot of pills from there caused her severe constipation and left her a bit dizzy. B: Try to find a different physiotherapist or chiropractor who maybe use some different techniques, and hope her husband is well enough to drop her off for all the repeat visits. C: Think to herself, I’m an elderly person. I’ll call the ambulance and the hospital emergency ward will be able to help me. D: Ask her school teacher daughter to come over after work and give her a bit of a neck and shoulder rub and hope that helps. E: Contact her local State and Federal MPs and request them to ask their Governments to use some common sense and reinstate remedial massage. FOOTNOTE: Federal Member for Herbert, Phillip Thompson, has already been in touch the Prime Minister’s Office to raise this issue. See more