David Brown has been involved in a variety of sports, both as a participant and as a coach. He has played competitive Rugby Union, Soccer, Athletics (track and field), studied Martial Arts and has also been known to take part in the occasional 10k run for charity.
He has coached youth Rugby Union and women's Rugby Union, has been a fitness instructor for the Police constructing and instructing training schedules for individuals for sports specific, injury rehabilitation and general health and fitness goals.
Throughout his years of sports participation and after having sustained several different injuries for which he was successfully treated using complementary therapies, he developed an interest in the therapies that had helped him to recover. To combine this interest with his instruction and coaching qualifications he studied with the prestigious London School of Sports Massage achieving their Diploma in Sports Massage Therapy (with honours) and Certificate in Remedial Massage Therapy leading to a BTEC Higher Diploma in both.
To broaden the services provided by his practice and to complement the therapies already available he has trained with the UK's SCENAR Training Centre becoming one of presently comparatively few therapists throughout the UK able to provide SCENAR treatments.
He has studied diploma courses in sports injuries, exercise therapy & sports injuries rehabilitation and also electrotherapy with Sports Therapy UK which is run by renowned author and principal lecturer of the Sports Therapy BSc Degree course at The University of Bedfordshire, Tim Paine, and is studying currently for a BSc (Hons) degree in Physiotherapy at the world famous Brunel University. Lately David has been published as a contributor to the professional journal Sportex Dynamics.
To date his practice has developed across the North of Northamptonshire and Northampton and has a client list that includes Northampton Saints RFC, Northants County Cricket Club and the Physioplus Complementary Therapy Clinic.
IMPORTANT
Things to consider when finding a sports or remedial massage practitioner
(as published by The Sports Massage Association)
Beware - Standards of training and practice vary enormously - if your sports or remedial massage practitioner is not suitably qualified, at best your treatment could be ineffective and at worst it may cause injury.
Qualifications - Unlike Physiotherapists who have state registration and title protection, which means it is an offence for anyone who is not a registered physiotherapist to portray themselves as such, under current law anyone is able to call themselves a sports or remedial massage practitioner or therapist. It is very important that any practitioner you visit is a member of the Sports Massage Association. They will have the letters MSMA after their name and will be able to show you a current SMA membership certificate, membership photo ID card and valid certificate of insurance.
