Free Your Body Therapy

🏃 Does the same niggle keep interrupting your running? 🏃

You rest, it settles, you start running again, and the problem returns.

Whether it’s a grumbling Achilles, recurring knee or heel pain, or a calf or hamstring that keeps playing up, it can be difficult to know what to do differently.

We’re looking at offering a practical runners’ masterclass with Jane Cole, Chartered Physiotherapist, and want to hear whether you’d be interested.

Drawing on Jane’s experience treating longstanding running-related problems, the session would focus on practical strength and mobility exercises you can use alongside your running.

You’d practise the exercises with Jane’s guidance, receive feedback on your technique and learn how to adapt and progress them so you can continue confidently at home or in the gym.

⏱️ 75 minutes
👥 Limited to 10 runners
💷 £30 per person

No date set yet - we’re checking interest first.

📩 If this sounds useful, comment “RUNNERS” or message us with the days and times that usually suit you.

📍 Free Your Body Therapy, King’s Lynn
🌱 Est. 2013

🍃 Championing exercise, understanding the individual 🍃

As a physiotherapist, I will always champion movement and exercise. But exercise doesn’t look the same for everyone.

Over the years, I’ve helped many hypermobile people of all ages, including those living with hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (hEDS).

For some, hypermobility causes very few problems. For others, it can mean pain, joint instability, fatigue, reduced confidence in movement and difficulty with everyday activities.

Some people with hypermobility are incredibly active. Others may find walking, standing or managing day-to-day tasks much harder. And for many, symptoms and abilities can change from one day to the next. That’s why I believe in looking at the whole person — not just a diagnosis.

Exercise might mean building strength, improving joint control, working on confidence, gradually increasing activity or adapting movement around pain and fatigue.

One of the many ways I do this is through Clinical Pilates on the Reformer.

The Reformer can be adapted to suit the individual, allowing us to change the level of support, resistance and challenge depending on what that person needs on that particular day.

For one person, that might mean gentle supported movement. For another, it might mean progressing strength and control with much more challenging exercises.

But the Reformer is only one tool.

A holistic approach is about listening, understanding someone’s goals and finding the right combination of movement, rehabilitation, education and treatment for them.

There is no single programme that suits every person with hypermobility or hEDS.

Movement is personal.

What works for one person may not work for another, and what feels achievable today may look completely different tomorrow.

That doesn’t mean giving up on exercise.

It means making exercise work for the person in front of you.

📍 Free Your Body Therapy, King’s Lynn
🌱 Est. 2013

✨Training doesn’t have to look traditional ✨

Exercise doesn’t have to mean running, lifting weights or spending hours in a gym.

Bungee training offers something different. It combines cardio, strength, balance and coordination—all while being supported by the harness.

It can be adapted to suit different abilities, whether you want to improve fitness, build confidence in movement or simply try something that feels fun.

As a physiotherapist, I can also adapt the exercises around your movement, previous injuries and individual goals.

Because the best exercise isn’t always the most traditional.

It’s the one you enjoy enough to keep doing.

⭐️What happens at your first appointment?⭐️

Before you arrive, we’ll review the forms you completed online. The more detail you can provide, the better, it helps us understand your symptoms, health history and what you’d like to get back to doing.

During your appointment, we’ll:

1️⃣ Talk through your concerns in more detail.
2️⃣ Complete a practical assessment of your movement and function.
3️⃣ Explain what we find and answer your questions.
4️⃣ Provide appropriate treatment.
5️⃣ Discuss the plan for moving forward.

Treatment will depend on what you need and who you are seeing. It could include hands-on treatment, acupuncture, Shockwave Therapy, MLS® Laser Therapy, Clinical Pilates or exercise-based rehabilitation.

You’ll also usually leave with some advice or a home exercise programme to begin working on between appointments.

You don’t need to know which treatment you need before booking, that’s what the assessment is for.

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📍 Free Your Body Therapy, King’s Lynn
🌱 Est. 2013

🤩 Why are our Physiotherapist and Osteopath learning MSK ultrasound?🤩

Jane and Terry are both currently studying Musculoskeletal (MSK) Ultrasound Imaging, but why would a Physiotherapist or Osteopath want to use ultrasound in clinical practice?

Because sometimes, being able to look at the structure we're assessing can add another piece to the clinical picture.

MSK ultrasound can be used to visualise structures including:

• Tendons.
• Muscles.
• Ligaments.
• Bursae.
• Joints and surrounding soft tissues.
• Some superficial nerves and other structures.

For Physiotherapy:

For Jane, ultrasound can complement a physical assessment when managing musculoskeletal injuries and rehabilitation.

For example, it may help when assessing certain tendon or muscle presentations, monitoring tissue changes, or deciding whether further investigation or onward referral may be appropriate.

It can also complement treatments we already use within the clinic, including rehabilitation, Shockwave Therapy and MLS® Laser Therapy, where an accurate clinical diagnosis remains important.

For Osteopathy:

For Terry, it adds another potential source of information alongside his existing clinical assessment.

Where symptoms could be coming from several different tissues, ultrasound may help provide additional information to support clinical reasoning and determine the most appropriate management.

But imaging isn't the whole answer….

This is important.

An ultrasound image doesn't replace a good clinical assessment.

Changes can appear on imaging in people who have no pain at all, and not everything that causes pain can be seen on ultrasound.

That's why we're interested in integrating MSK ultrasound into what we already do rather than treating a scan result in isolation.

History + clinical assessment + movement + imaging where appropriate = a more complete clinical picture.

We're looking forward to developing another skill that can support how we assess and manage our patients at Free Your Body Therapy.

📍 Free Your Body Therapy | King's Lynn