Two treatment rooms up two flights on Wellfield Road. Forty-five minutes is £50 whoever treats you, the first ten are a conversation, and if it needs a physio rather than us we say so before your money is spent.
From the diary and the clock, booked online up to two hours ahead.
Treatments
01
The treatment most people book: firm, specific work on the muscles you use most, to keep you training through a block, undo a week of hills, or deal with the calf that has been "a bit tight" since March. Forty-five minutes is the usual; an hour if there are two areas; thirty for a top-up.
Thirty minutes £38, forty-five £50, an hour £65, ninety £90.
02
Slower and heavier than sports massage, for the chronic stuff: the shoulder that has been in a knot since 2019, the lower back that locks up every winter, the hips that sit all day. Forearms and elbows as well as hands, at a depth we agree on and keep checking. Forty-five minutes £50, an hour £65.
Forty-five minutes £50, an hour £65, ninety minutes £90.
03
Fast, light, warming work before a race and flushing, restorative work after it, under our gazebo at the Cardiff Half, the Bay 10K and twenty other events a year for £25 a go, or in the clinic in the days either side. We know what a race-week body needs and what it does not, which is deep work.
£25 for twenty minutes at an event, pre or post; book ahead on the day's list or queue.
04
Soft-tissue rehab for the strains, the tendon problems and the "it went in week eight" injuries that massage, loading and patience can fix: four forty-five-minute sessions over four to six weeks with a written plan, for £180. And for the things that are not ours, a letter to one of three physios we trust, and the work picked up again when they discharge you.
The rehab block: four forty-five-minute sessions, a written plan and the physio letter if one is needed, £180 (against £200 booked singly).
05
For the people whose sport is a laptop: three forty-five-minute sessions a fortnight apart on the neck, the shoulders, the chest and the hips that eight hours of sitting shortens, with a ten-minute look at how you actually sit (bring a photo) and the two drills that undo most of it. £135, against £150 booked singly.
The package: three forty-five-minute sessions a fortnight apart with the desk review, £135.
06
For people training for something: six forty-five-minute sessions timed to the training plan, with the heavy work in the big weeks, the light work in the taper and a flush the week after the race. £270 against £300 booked singly, for marathon and half-marathon blocks, sportives, triathlons and anyone who has entered something and is slightly frightened of it.
Six forty-five-minute sessions, £270, booked against your training plan and moved if the plan moves.
Prices
£38
Calves, or the neck, or the thing we already know about. Not for deep tissue, which needs longer.
£50
Ten minutes of history and a movement check, thirty-five hands on, a stretch and a drill written down.
£65
Back and hips, or calves and hamstrings. The first visit for most people with more than one complaint.
£90
The week after a marathon, the week before an Ironman, or a body that has not been touched in a year.
£25
Pre- or post-race, on the day's list from the website or in the queue. £20 on a twelve-session year.
£180
Over four to six weeks, with a return-to-sport ladder with dates. The fourth refunded if you are discharged after three.
Not sure what to book?
Tight calves, a back that locks, headaches by four o'clock, a hamstring that grabbed, an Achilles that grumbles, a race this week. Pick the closest and the page says which treatment, how long, what it costs and why, before you book anything.
How we work
Forty-five-minute treatments in hourly slots so nobody runs late and the room gets ten minutes of air between clients. Book the next free slot from this website up to two hours ahead, or ring and we find you one.
What hurts, what you do all day, what you are training for, what you have tried. Then hands on. The first visit is the same price as every other because the ten minutes are in every slot.
Deep is not the same as painful. We work to the depth that lets the muscle let go, which is usually the point where you can still hold a conversation, and we ask rather than guess.
Both therapists hold a Level 4 sports massage diploma, are registered with the Sports Massage Association and insured for £5 million. We do not diagnose, we do not treat what we should not, and we say when something needs a physio or a GP.
Race days
Twenty-three events a year, from the Bay 10K to the Cardiff Half: light, warming work before the start and flushing work after, never deep tissue on legs that have just raced. The list for each event opens on this website the week before; the proper session is three to five days later in the clinic.
How event massage worksClients
Six sessions put in the diary against my plan on day one, and Carys moved two of them without a murmur when I got a cold in week nine. The light one in the taper felt pointless and was the one that got me to the start with fresh legs. 3:41, eleven minutes off, and the calf that went last year did not go.
A shoulder knot I have carried since 2019 that three other people had pummelled. Jamal asked how deep, went slower and heavier than anyone has, and waited for it to let go rather than fighting it. Felt bruised on Tuesday, free on Wednesday, and I can turn my head to reverse the car.
The photo of me at my desk was humiliating and the most useful thing anyone has shown me about my headaches. Three sessions, the screen up on a box, two ninety-second drills I actually do, and the four o'clock headache has gone. I have not needed a fourth, which they said at the start I probably would not.
Thirty minutes £38, forty-five £50, an hour £65, ninety £90, the same for sports or deep tissue and the same on the first visit. The rehab block of four is £180, the desk-worker package of three £135, the runners' and cyclists' block of six £270. Twenty minutes at a race is £25. No VAT.
The next free slot is on the home page, worked out from the diary and the clock. The book page shows every free hour for the next fortnight: pick a day and the hours that are still open are listed. Book online up to two hours before a slot, or ring and we find you one.
Tell us what hurts and we tell you. The treatments page has a picker: choose the thing that is bothering you and it says which treatment, how long and what it costs. If it turns out to need a physio we say so in the first ten minutes and do not charge for them.
Firm, sometimes uncomfortable, never something you tense against: a muscle that is braced does not release. We agree the depth and keep checking. Expect a bruised feeling the next day after deep work, gone by the day after.
Muscle strains, irritated tendons and the tight tissue that loads a joint badly, yes, with a four-session block and a written plan. Anything that looks like a tear, a stress fracture, a joint or a nerve goes to one of three physios we trust first, with a letter, and we pick the soft-tissue work up again when they say.
About half of our clients do not. Desks, driving, carrying children and stress shorten the same muscles that running does, in different places, and the desk-worker package exists because of them.
Forty-five minutes is £50 and the usual first booking: ten minutes of talking, thirty-five hands on, a stretch and a drill written down. Pick an hour on the book page up to two hours ahead, or ring the clinic and we find you one.
