MOTs – Muscle Overview and Test

MOTs are 1 hour sessions using as appropriate – consultation, posture assessment, muscle testing, strength testing, muscle and fascial palpation and basic skeletal alignment to determine if there are any issues in the body that need further treatment. I have added use of my Body Composition Monitor to analyse body water content, bone mass, body fat and visceral fat ratings to provide a complete MOT review. There is normally just enough time within the hour to do a mini spot treatment on an area found tight etc.

These are ideal for people who want a check up either before a sporting event, or as a pre-cursor to deciding whether to have full sports massage treatment (great for baselining), or just as a body health check up. During the month of January each year these treatments are only £20! A great way of starting the year with a body review.

I find that MOTs are the least popular of my services! It’s strange that we are used to being proactive in getting our teeth or eyes regularly tested but with our bodies we rely on breakdown maintenance only!

MOT’s can provide great info on the body before something more debilitating happens e.g: an Achilles tendon tear, or tennis or golfers elbow, rotator cuff tear, unbalanced muscles causing extra wear or meniscus damage, or a stuck sacroiliac joint etc.