15 Feb 2023
My guest today has been on multiple journeys. Picking himself up after his athletics dream was crushed. Overcoming and managing a significant speech impediment. Finding joy, balance and his passion in helping others achieve a pain free life.
James Davies, author of “Body”, is the founder and CEO of Rising Health, which he started 10 years ago and his clients include David Beckham, Kylie Minogue, Philip Schofield, Mo Farah among many others. He has worked globally with professional athletes ranging from Olympic champions, premiership footballers, NFL and rugby union players, as well as A-List actors like Eva Mendes. He is the sought after therapist and even served the Great Britain team at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games and at the 2019 Rugby World Cup.
But rather than being trained as a physiotherapist, like most practitioners are who work for national teams, James actually trained at the British School of Osteopathy. He studied Massage and Sports injuries at the London School of Massage, Tecar Therapy in Italy, Tok Sen in Chiang Mai, Thailand, and is a noted authority on laser therapy, dry needling, acupuncture and cupping.
As a performance therapist and athletics coach, James is able to integrate a range of therapies including, massage, biomechanics and functional and structural applications. He developed the ethos of relieve, restore and perform based on his own personal experience as a young athlete, and his experience working with elite athletes.
This is a really cool conversation for me to have, I loved chatting with James, I learnt a lot from his new book ‘Body’, the language of pain, finding joy in movement and I loved how the majority of what we talked about came down to finding balance and creating a stress free life. Enjoy!
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In addition to his private clinical work, he has worked throughout the UK, USA & Jamaica with professional athletes ranging from Olympic champions, premiership footballers, NFL and rugby union players, as well as A-List actors and musicians globally. He is the founder and CEO of Rising Health, which he started 10 years ago. His clients include David Beckham, Kylie Minogue, Philip Schofield and previously Mo Farah among many others. James served as a Great Britain team therapist at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games and was at the 2019 Rugby World Cup.
James trained at the British School of Osteopathy, studied Massage and Sports injuries at the London School of Massage, Tecar Therapy in Italy, Tok Sen in Chiang Mai, Thailand, and is a noted authority on laser therapy, dry needling and acupuncture, and cupping.
As a performance therapist and athletics coach, James is able to integrate osteopathy, massage, acupuncture, biomechanics and functional and structural applications. James developed the ethos of relieve, restore and perform based on his own personal experience as a young athlete, and his experience working with elite athletes and those individuals and teams who participate in recreational sport and want to improve their performance; he now works with people from all backgrounds.
James divides his time between his practices in Surrey, London and working worldwide.
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