Massage Therapy Archives - BAPAM Performing Arts Medicine Mon, 17 Nov 2025 11:23:32 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 /wp-content/uploads/2023/01/cropped-FAVICON3-32x32.png Massage Therapy Archives - BAPAM 32 32 Andrew Keay /practitioner-search/andrew-keay-2/ Thu, 06 Feb 2025 14:02:38 +0000 /?post_type=wpbdp_listing&p=63144 Andrew Keay is a remedial and vocal massage therapist. He discovered the real importance of massage through his work as a professional actor and voiceover artist. After training at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, he worked throughout the UK and has toured internationally for the past 14 years with large scale, physically demanding, theatre productions […]

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Andrew Keay is a remedial and vocal massage therapist. He discovered the real importance of massage through his work as a professional actor and voiceover artist. After training at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, he worked throughout the UK and has toured internationally for the past 14 years with large scale, physically demanding, theatre productions including War Horse with the National Theatre and voiced characters for productions with Netflix, BBC & STV.

Andrew has worked with actors, musical theatre performers, singers, athletes, nurses, gardeners and office workers – bringing his experience as a performer into the treatment room to help clients feel, function and perform at their best.

I know what it takes to perform as the highest level physically, mentally & vocally and having massage treatment has 100% helped me maintain my body and mind through long, demanding contracts. I’m really passionate about massage therapy and believe it can play an important role in maintaining proper body function, performance, and health as well as having an overall positive effect on your physical and mental wellbeing“.

In addition to seeing clients at his own practice, Andrew is part of the team at in Glasgow.

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Andrew Keay /practitioner-search/andrew-keay/ Sun, 02 Jun 2024 08:47:30 +0000 /?post_type=wpbdp_listing&p=63424 Andrew Keay is a Vocal, Sports & Remedial massage therapist who specialises in working with performing arts freelancers and professional voice users – taking individual needs and requirements into consideration and developing a treatment plan to best suit each client. He discovered the real importance of massage through his work as a professional actor and […]

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Andrew Keay is a Vocal, Sports & Remedial massage therapist who specialises in working with performing arts freelancers and professional voice users – taking individual needs and requirements into consideration and developing a treatment plan to best suit each client. He discovered the real importance of massage through his work as a professional actor and voiceover artist. After training at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, he worked throughout the UK and toured internationally for the past 14 years with large scale, physically demanding, theatre productions including War Horse with the National Theatre and voiced characters for productions with Netflix, BBC & STV.

Andrew manages a busy client list at his Glasgow clinics, as well as hosting in-house theatre treatments throughout Scotland with clients including; Dundee Rep, Pitlochry Festival Theatre, Lyceum Theatre, Tron Theatre & MacRobert Arts Centre.

“I know what it takes to perform as the highest level physically, mentally & vocally and having massage treatment has 100% helped me maintain my body and mind through long, demanding contracts. I’m really passionate about massage therapy and believe it can play an important role in maintaining proper body function, performance, and health as well as having an overall positive effect on your physical and mental wellbeing”.

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Genevieve Tawiah /practitioner-search/genevieve-tawiah/ Wed, 12 Aug 2020 12:02:47 +0000 http://www.bapam.org.uk/?post_type=wpbdp_listing&p=52472 Genevieve Tawiah is an experienced Performance Physiotherapist who uses sports massage, medical acupuncture, taping and more alongside a variety of exercise methods. She has experience teaching matwork and reformer pilates and a background in yoga practice which she often applies in sessions. My goal is to provide you with the tools you need to optimise […]

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Genevieve Tawiah is an experienced Performance Physiotherapist who uses sports massage, medical acupuncture, taping and more alongside a variety of exercise methods. She has experience teaching matwork and reformer pilates and a background in yoga practice which she often applies in sessions.

My goal is to provide you with the tools you need to optimise your wellbeing; learn more about your body and make a safe and efficient recovery from injury – back to the activities you love where possible.

Services and treatments include:

 

  • Assessment, Diagnosis and Treatment for injuries
  • Video call consultations
  • Sports Massage
  • Vocal Physiotherapy
  • Jaw (TMJ) Physiotherapy
  • Ä¢¹½tv Acupuncture
  • Dry Cupping
  • Shockwave Therapy
  • Supportive Taping
  • Exercise advice: Pilates/ Yoga/ Strength and Conditioning
  • Injury prevention talks and workshops

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Ian Nicholas /practitioner-search/ian-nicholas/ Tue, 03 May 2022 07:06:03 +0000 /?post_type=wpbdp_listing&p=57268 Ian Nicholas is a Soft Tissue Therapist and highly experienced singer and singing teacher with a special interest in voice rehabilitation and vocal massage. As an experienced Estill Master Trainer (EMT), Ian was the first practitioner in the UK to hold both the EMT and the UK’s highest qualification in Soft Tissue Therapy. Ian combines […]

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Ian Nicholas is a Soft Tissue Therapist and highly experienced singer and singing teacher with a special interest in voice rehabilitation and vocal massage. As an experienced Estill Master Trainer (EMT), Ian was the first practitioner in the UK to hold both the EMT and the UK’s highest qualification in Soft Tissue Therapy. Ian combines voice training exercises and Laryngeal Manual Therapy (LMT), pioneering an integrated model for the treatment and rehabilitation of Muscle Tension Dysphonia and other issues. He works as part of a Multidisciplinary Voice Clinic team in South Wales, and also works closely with senior laryngeal surgeons in London.

He lectures in Singing at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, and was formerly a Vocal Tutor at the Faculty of Musical Theatre at Mountview, London. He has been a visiting or guest lecturer at Arts Ed, Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, Sibelius Academy, Helsinki and The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. Ian holds an Honours Degree in Music from Goldsmiths College, University of London.

Ian is extensively involved with the recording industry, preparing singers for major tours, and coaching in the recording studio. His clients work within Musical Theatre and in Contemporary Commercial Music.  He works at , and supports individual singers in productions at the Helsinki City Theatre.  As an experienced choral performer and conductor, Ian has outstanding ensemble teaching skills and gives workshops and classes to theatre companies and choirs including recently working with Theatre Vanemuise, Estonia on their production of Sister Act.

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Jenefer Davys /practitioner-search/jenefer-davys/ Wed, 12 Aug 2020 12:02:17 +0000 http://www.bapam.org.uk/?post_type=wpbdp_listing&p=52358 Osteopathy, Pilates and Sports Massage practitioner with a particular interest in postural and ergonomic factors that affect the way in which the human spine works, especially in the context of dance and the performance arts. Jenefer has a background in dance and movement, plays piano and sings. She has treated instrumentalists, singers, actors and dancers […]

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Osteopathy, Pilates and Sports Massage practitioner with a particular interest in postural and ergonomic factors that affect the way in which the human spine works, especially in the context of dance and the performance arts. Jenefer has a background in dance and movement, plays piano and sings. She has treated instrumentalists, singers, actors and dancers (ballet, contemporary and musical theatre) and is based at Shoreham Osteopathy Centre, Shoreham-by-Sea. Please ask for Jenefer as this is a group practice. Since November 2023, Jenefer is also practising 9am-1pm at Valentine Voice Care Centre, Lewes.

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Kate Valentine /practitioner-search/kate-valentine/ Thu, 23 Mar 2023 12:21:18 +0000 /?post_type=wpbdp_listing&p=59256 Kate Valentine is a Sports Massage Therapist who works extensively with singers and professional voice users, specialising in vocal massage, laryngeal manual therapy, vocal health, and injury prevention. Whilst enjoying a successful career as a principal artist on the international operatic stage Kate sustained a vocal injury which sparked her fascination with vocal health, rehabilitation, […]

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Kate Valentine is a Sports Massage Therapist who works extensively with singers and professional voice users, specialising in vocal massage, laryngeal manual therapy, vocal health, and injury prevention. Whilst enjoying a successful career as a principal artist on the international operatic stage Kate sustained a vocal injury which sparked her fascination with vocal health, rehabilitation, and the long-term benefits of manual therapy for voice.

In 2023 Kate Founded Valentine Voice Care, a multidisciplinary centre in Lewes, East Sussex dedicated to the care and support of voice, and as well as offering Vocal Health Triage and Vocal Massage herself, now runs a team of 18 cross-disciplinary practitioners between her main Lewes centre, and another smaller centre in Glasgow. She manages a busy client list including English National Opera’s Harewood Artists, the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Scottish Opera, Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Swap’ra, Voces8, and The Dunedin Consort and is a trusted name in the Classical music world.

“It is my mission to help remove the mystery and stigma surrounding vocal wellbeing and injury, and to provide a safe space to help you with your journey – whichever part of that journey you are on”.

Kate offers services in Vocal Massage, Manual Therapy for Voice & Swallowing disorders, Laryngeal Manipulation, TMJ management, Myofascial Therapy, VoiceRelease Massage and Sports Massage Therapy. She can help with issues relating to relieving postoperative and post viral tension, globus pharyngeus/globus hystericus (a sense of a ‘lump’ in the throat), muscle tension dysphonia, TMJ, improving vocal function, alleviating acid reflux symptoms, releasing emotional tension, improving vocal stamina, range and flexibility, freeing up the breathing mechanism, jaw and tongue root tension, releasing muscles which have been overcompensating, performance anxiety, vocal pacing, vocal health advice and injury prevention.

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Lydia Flock /practitioner-search/lydia-flock/ Wed, 16 Aug 2023 14:36:34 +0000 /?post_type=wpbdp_listing&p=61162 Lydia Flock (she/her) is a massage therapist, vocal coach, and published researcher. She was endorsed for the prestigious Global Talent Visa (under Exceptional Promise Criteria) by Arts Council England. She has published research in the peer-reviewed academic journals Voice and Speech Review and the Journal of Singing (in press). Her latest research is titled ‘Developing […]

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Lydia Flock (she/her) is a massage therapist, vocal coach, and published researcher. She was endorsed for the prestigious Global Talent Visa (under Exceptional Promise Criteria) by Arts Council England. She has published research in the peer-reviewed academic journals Voice and Speech Review and the Journal of Singing (in press). Her latest research is titled ‘Developing a Vocal Manual Therapy Intervention for the Treatment of Laryngopharyngeal Reflux in Professional Voice Users: A Pilot Study of Two Elite Singers’. ​

She holds an MA in Music Theatre from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama and a BA in Drama from the University of Virginia (with honours). She also trained at Ithaca College’s BFA Musical Theatre programme. Lydia qualified as a Holistic & Deep Tissue massage therapist with Jing Advanced Massage Training and specialises in Vocal Massage & Laryngeal Manipulation. She is the founder of her private voice coaching company, Flockstars Coaching and works as a vocal massage therapist at the Voice Care Centre in London. Lydia highly values continued professional development and is in the process of completing her Certificate in Advanced Clinical Massage with Jing Advanced Massage Training (exp. 2022).

Lydia works with vocalists, actors, singers, speakers, and patients with any musculoskeletal voice-related issues, such as globus pharyngeus or a sense of a ‘lump’ in the throat, freeing up belt voice quality, muscle tension dysphonia, laryngopharyngeal reflux (LPR) symptoms, loss of range or smooth transitions between vocal registers, difficulty swallowing or swallowing disorders, jaw and tongue root tension (including TMJ), vocal tiredness or fatigue. Lydia also offers assessments in manual therapy, myofascial release, advanced stretching techniques, laryngeal manipulation and self-care exercises.

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Mr Charles Ward /practitioner-search/mr-charles-ward/ Wed, 12 Aug 2020 12:02:55 +0000 /?post_type=wpbdp_listing&p=52954 Charles Ward is a former professional session singer who trained as a Massage Therapist who continues to be a keen songwriter, guitarist and singer. He has a special interest in working with voice users including singers, actors and public speakers. He has been treating high profile singers since 2014 and has treated artists on tour […]

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Charles Ward is a former professional session singer who trained as a Massage Therapist who continues to be a keen songwriter, guitarist and singer. He has a special interest in working with voice users including singers, actors and public speakers. He has been treating high profile singers since 2014 and has treated artists on tour at music venues around the UK. Charles provides vocal massage and Laryngeal Manual Therapy (LMT), and has helped many performers with problems including vocal fatigue, muscle tension dysphonia, physical symptoms of stress and anxiety, poor breathing and technique, as well as general maintenance and injury prevention. Charles has published articles for the Voice Council and presented for various Music Colleges and Universities, as well as for The British Voice Association in relation to LMT. He understands the importance of vocal health, how precious and essential the voice is, and the impact that it can have when things go wrong. Charles is also expert at diagnosing and treating sports and musculoskeletal injuries and is a keen cyclist.

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Ms Jennie Parke Matheson /practitioner-search/ms-jennie-parke-matheson-2/ Wed, 12 Aug 2020 12:02:39 +0000 http://www.bapam.org.uk/?post_type=wpbdp_listing&p=52446 Holistic Massage Therapist with professional experience as a stage manager and arts administrator. Has worked with actors, comedians, dancers, musicians, singers, stage managers, props makers and wardrobe personnel. Helps with conditions including carpal tunnel, RSI, muscle fatigue, frozen shoulder, arthritis, postural issues, back pain, sciatica, joint problems, knee & hip issues, stress, anxiety, insomnia, pregnancy. […]

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Holistic Massage Therapist with professional experience as a stage manager and arts administrator. Has worked with actors, comedians, dancers, musicians, singers, stage managers, props makers and wardrobe personnel. Helps with conditions including carpal tunnel, RSI, muscle fatigue, frozen shoulder, arthritis, postural issues, back pain, sciatica, joint problems, knee & hip issues, stress, anxiety, insomnia, pregnancy. Jennie is also a meditation practitioner and works holistically to ‘help reduce stress levels, generate both physical and mental balance – and enable you to lead a relaxed and more productive life’.

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Neil Lewis /practitioner-search/neil-lewis-2/ Wed, 12 Aug 2020 12:02:32 +0000 http://www.bapam.org.uk/?post_type=wpbdp_listing&p=52417 Neil treats a variety of performance professionals and students including actors and dancers (including ballet and ice) presenting with problems in areas such as lumbar spine, cervical spine, upper and lower limb. He is based at Step Forward Physiotherapy. Locations include Merthyr, University of South Wales, Cardiff and Abergavenny.

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Neil treats a variety of performance professionals and students including actors and dancers (including ballet and ice) presenting with problems in areas such as lumbar spine, cervical spine, upper and lower limb. He is based at Step Forward Physiotherapy. Locations include Merthyr, University of South Wales, Cardiff and Abergavenny.

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