Clare came to us in early 2020, close to the start of her journey and the first Covid-19 lockdown. She had shoulder pain with her day-to-day movements when lifting her arm up away from her body, this was due to the non-existent training and activity she had done before starting a 4-week challenge at B! Health and Fitness.

We got Clare booked in for an Injury Assessment and Treatment and we diagnosed her problem as subacromial impingement. We developed a tailored treatment plan based on her highlighted needs to get her back to pain free movement so that she could focus on her training and improvements towards her goals.

Despite Clare trying to fool us in the fact that she had actually done her rehab exercises a couple of times (we can always tell if you don’t!), we were able to reduce her pain quickly and alongside the team at B! with their personal training sessions, we kept her on top of her exercises and got her back to training pain free again.

“Absolutely fantastic service as always, Abby is so knowledgeable and you always feel in extremely capable hands. Abby finds solutions to problems you didn’t know you had which make such a massive difference to both your physical and mental wellbeing. I cannot recommend highly enough.”

From then, nothing could stop her. She has gone from being overweight, no exercise, smoking, and suffering two small strokes due to Meningitis on the brain, which at the time, altered her eye sight, gait and reduced the strength on the left side of her body. To now, where the gym is her second home and family – she is there 5 times a week for her own sessions, personal training sessions and spin classes (we also see her socialising a lot too!).

Her transformation is absolutely unbelievable and she is looking fantastic! She has lost a lot of weight, gained a lot of confidence and is smashing her targets. What a fantastic achievement.

This year she accepted the challenge with a few other gym members and staff at B! Health and Fitness to complete a charity walk in Brixham. This wasn’t just any walk – this was a 42km, marathon distance walk, over extremely steep south west coast path terrain. So, this was always going to be a tough challenge to accept for Clare as this was above and beyond her fitness levels. Despite the few hurdles she has encountered, with the stress her work and personal life has thrown at her during her training – she managed to keep focused and stayed on top of what she needed to do. We had a few physical hurdles along the way too but we were able to keep the pain under control with hands on treatment, whilst we adapted her walk training to match her tolerance and progressively built the distances back up, we also altered Clare’s training program and conditioning in the gym to meet our treatment goals.

Her hard work and determination in combination with our expertise, meant she not only got back on track, she got through the most intense training period and improved her physical ability and made it to the start line of the walk event! Now, the walk did try to break her because of the under-estimated terrain difficulty, but she was determined to power through and she smash it and got to the finish line. Clare individually raised over £2000, and as a team they raised over £8000 for The Alzheimer’s Society.

An incredible attitude and achievement! We are so very proud of you. You’ve smashed it!

Clare values the focused and wider benefits she feels from our appointments and she has decided to invest in herself and her physical health by complimenting her future training with regular appointments with us. This will help keep her on track and focused towards her training and improving any weaknesses.

We look forward to continue working alongside Clare and see her hit her future targets.

“Honiton RFC have worked in successful partnership with ReBalance since 2015, supporting our membership with a range of high-quality injury prevention and rehabilitation services.

Our partnership was strong from the outset, they quickly understood our needs and designed a bespoke solution that would meet these. Having worked together over an extended period of time, we have worked together to make changes to the services on offer, aligned to the changing need at the club, which has always been a smooth process.

Throughout our partnership the ReBalance team have delivered consistently high-quality services to our members, working together with our coaching teams to ensure our playing squads are injury free. We have seen the impact year on year, with a reduced volume of injuries and improved speed of recovery as a result of detailed and bespoke plans.

We would highly recommend working in partnership with ReBalance to other businesses. This is based on their ability to work collaboratively and flexibly, to share our vision and values, and to deliver high quality and professional services consistently.

We are look forward to working in partnership with ReBalance for years to come!”

It has been a pleasure to work in partnership with Honiton RFC, designing a bespoke service for their senior members. A true highlight was supporting them in the high-pressured cup journey over a season to become RFU National Senior Vase Winners, the final of which was played at Twickenham Stadium.

Please get in contact with us if you are a business or organisation looking for a bespoke service to your employees or members.

Julie is one of our lovely clients that we have been seeing for both injury assessment and treatment, alongside sports massage for over a year now.

Julie originally came to us for an ongoing lower back issue, we completed the assessment, got to the root cause of the issue and planned her rehabilitation program to fit with her current training.

We discussed her goals and very quickly learnt that she is determined and ambitious. We found out that she had decided to challenge herself to the Ultra Endurance Challenge in aid of ARC Axminster & Cruse Bereavement Care. These charities are pretty close to Julie’s heart, both supporting those with mental health support, which is a problem too common in our society today.

Julie’s challenge took place whilst still under our old brand, AR Sports Therapy – Julies story is just too good not to share!

The challenge set was to complete 24 hours of non-stop exercise! Activities included personal training sessions, walking, rowing, cycling, jogging, spinning, HIIT, weight training, cycling, sea swimming, walking, paddle boarding, kayaking, and yoga.
Alongside B! Health and Fitness, we then aided her ongoing training and rehabilitation around the activities which were included in the event schedule, to ensure she had the strength and endurance to complete the challenge (which of course, we knew she would).

We had the pleasure of helping her through her training, treating her small niggles that arose, providing maintenance treatments to aid her recovery and best prepare her for her training, over the months of hard training leading up to the big event.

A few months before the big event, her training was building for a planned 15-hour preparation event and just a couple of days beforehand, Julie hobbled in with a calf injury. It was nothing too serious and we got her through the full 15 hours! Now it was time for a bit of recovery and to nip this injury in the bud!

The 24-hour challenge itself soon came around, and Julie was ready to go, We were all confident in Julie’s ability to make it through the event and get to 24 hours of exercise. We were on hand during the event to support any niggles that may have popped up. In all honesty, she didn’t really need us, her physical ability that she developed through the dedication she made to her training and preparation was second to none and she smashed the 24 hours with a smile! Single handily raising over £2400, above her target, for her chosen charities.

Very well done Julie! We are in awe of your achievement and we are so pleased to be able to help you achieve your goals!