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Manual Lymphatic Drainage (MLD)

Manual Lymphatic Drainage (MLD) is a type of gentle massage which is intended to encourage the natural drainage of the lymph from the tissues of the body. The lymph system depends on intrinsic contractions of the smooth muscle cells in the walls of lymph vessels (peristalsis) and the movement of skeletal muscles to propel lymph through the vessels to lymph nodes and then beyond the lymph node to the lymph ducts which return lymph to the cardiovascular system.

MLD uses a specific amount of pressure (less than 9 ounces per square inch) and rhythmic movements to stimulate lymph flow and is now recognised as a primary tool in lymphoedema management.

MLD not only stimulates the vital functions of the skin, tissues and internal organs, but also serves to eliminate cellular waste and stimulate the parasympathetic relaxation response inhibiting muscle tonus and pain. Research has also shown that MLD stimulates the immune system to produce more immunity, a valuable contribution to winter health! It also provides an excellent tool for massage therapists when regular massage is contraindicated.

Bookings for Lymphatic Drainage sessions with Nicki may be made online.

Privacy Policy

Who we are

We are IC Sports Therapies Pty Ltd, ACN 633 743 512.

Our website address is: https://icsportstherapies.com.au.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Comments

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Contact forms

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How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognise and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Your contact information

We record your email and mobile contacts for booking-related use.

Additional information

How we protect your data

Our site traffic is secured by the secure https protocol, which means all communications between your browser and the website are encrypted. We also employ Firewall software (at both server and site level) and Real-Time IP Blacklisting.

What third parties we receive data from

None.

What automated decision making and/or profiling we do with user data

None.

Industry regulatory disclosure requirements

As a private sector health service provider, under the Australian Privacy Act 1988 (Privacy Act) and the Notifiable Data Breaches scheme, we are required to notify affected individuals and the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) when a data breach is likely to result in serious harm to individuals whose personal information is involved in the breach. 

Welcome Letitia Coker

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Welcome Letitia Coker

We welcome Letitia Coker to the team at IC Sports Therapies!

Letitia is a Medical Herbalist, Registered Nurse and a Mum. She has a special interest in stress and anxiety, and helps people have the fortitude to cope with what life throws at them, to live well, be well and regain their health. Her passion is working with children, teens and adults whose lives are plagued by stress and anxiety, to create a brighter, healthier future.

Letitia works with clients who have many medical conditions, treating the underlining stresses, with the support of Herbal Medicine, supplements, diet and life style choices. The combination of using current medical knowledge alongside alternative natural therapies, gives her a wholistic approach to treating the source of your health concerns.

Do you suffer from fatigue, stress, anxiety, depression, life seems to just get on top of you? Do you get bloated, have digestive complaints, feel sluggish, find it hard to get up and go, your energy levels are in your boots? Are you irritable, cranky, have mood swings and just don’t feel right? Do you have recurring illnesses that you don’t seem to be able to shift? Maybe you have a chronic illness, such as chronic fatigue, glandular fever, fibromyalgia and an autoimmune disease or your health is just not what you would like?

Letitia is no longer with IC Sports Therapies, and we wish her well in her future..

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IC Sports Therapies says welcome Ann Swinney.

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Ann Swinney

Join with us to welcome Ann Swinney, who has a long held passion for helping people. This has been evident in her corporate career in human resources and now with massage therapy.  She thrives on identifying problem areas and helping people in their recovering and feeling better.

She has completed her Certificate IV in Massage Therapy and has one subject left to complete her Diploma in Sports Therapies.  She will also complete her Diploma in Remedial Massage this year.

In her spare time, Ann loves spending time with her family and seeing her son grow and thrive.  She is also maintaining her fitness through participating in triathlons and fun runs and trying to make sure her son doesn’t beat her. She is quietly pleased he can now run and swim faster than her and hopes he has a passion for looking after his health for life.

IC Sports Therapies are happy to extend a warm welcome to Ann as she joins our Team, and look forward to a long and happy association with her.

Ann is no longer with IC Sports Therapies, and we wish her well in her future.

Letitia Coker, Medical Herbalist

Letitia Coker

Letitia is a Medical Herbalist, Registered Nurse and a Mum. She has a special interest in stress and anxiety, and helps people have the fortitude to cope with what life throws at them, to live well, be well and regain their health. Her passion is working with children, teens and adults whose lives are plagued by stress and anxiety, to create a brighter, healthier future.

Letitia works with clients who have many medical conditions, treating the underlining stresses, with the support of Herbal Medicine, supplements, diet and life style choices. The combination of using current medical knowledge alongside alternative natural therapies, gives her a wholistic approach to treating the source of your health concerns.

Do you suffer from fatigue, stress, anxiety, depression, life seems to just get on top of you? Do you get bloated, have digestive complaints, feel sluggish, find it hard to get up and go, your energy levels are in your boots? Are you irritable, cranky, have mood swings and just don’t feel right? Do you have recurring illnesses that you don’t seem to be able to shift? Maybe you have a chronic illness, such as chronic fatigue, glandular fever, fibromyalgia and an autoimmune disease or your health is just not what you would like?

Letitia is no longer with IC Sports Therapies. We wish her well with her future.

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Lisa Barnes, Remedial and Swedish Massage

Lisa

I am a mother of two teenage children. I understand the constant struggle to have balance in our lives. Being there for your family, providing for your family, trying to stay fit and healthy. When the stresses in life start to impact our physical and mental wellbeing we start to feel overwhelmed and our body reacts.

I can help you regain balance in your life. Whether you are sitting at a desk all day, training for a sporting team, recovering from injury, renovating the house and garden, raising young children, there comes a time when our body needs attention.

I am passionate about providing the best treatment outcomes possible and working towards clients’ long term health goals. I am part of a multidisciplinary clinic where we work collaboratively to get the best results for our clients.

I use a number of postural and functional movement tests to establish a starting point, which can also be used at the end of treatments to see how well the body has responded. These help guide me to choose the best possible treatment plan and follow up treatments.

So whether you want to relax, unwind & relieve tension, reduce pain, rebalance or improve mobility I will be able to use a combination of soft tissue massage, stretching, strength exercises and taping to reach your goals.

Benefits of massage:

  • Reduced pain
  • Improved functional movement (mobility around joints)
  • Move more freely
  • Improved overall well being
  • Help reduce the risk of injury
  • Alleviates soreness
  • Reduce recovery time
  • Enhance circulation
  • Decrease blood pressure

Background

Head and shoulders photo of Lisa Barnes
Lisa Barnes, 1992 Olympics at Barcelona

I was an elite gymnast competing for over 14 years representing Australia at the 1990 Commonwealth Games and 1992 Olympic Games. I have an interest in most sports, walking, animals, camping and the outdoors. With a background in Human Movement, teaching PE for over 15 years and a gymnastics coach I have a greater understanding of the body and movement and the stresses that occur in our bodies.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor of Human Movement
  • Diploma of Education
  • Diploma of Remedial Massage
  • Certificate IV in Swedish Relaxation Massage
  • Senior first aid
  • Level 1 Sports Trainer
  • Advanced Gymnastics Coach

Welcome to Brigitte Batten, Chiropractor

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Brigitte

IC Sports Therapies welcomes Brigitte Batten to the team*.

Brigitte Batten is a Macquarie University graduate with a passion for sports (especially gymnasts and dancers) due to her elite gymnastics background along with coaching/judging experience in gymnastics. She chose to study chiropractic due to an accident causing her to stop gymnastics and now her goal is to help people be able to overcome their injuries so they can continue doing the sport or activities they love.

Brigitte is dedicated, organised and very eager to help people with a range of different injuries, ranging from necks, backs, shoulders, ankles, headaches etc along with looking at the body as a whole to make sure you are working structurally, functionally and to allow maximal body’s performance. She also wants to encourage preventative strategies, such as rehabilitation and taping. Brigitte is very interested in expanding her knowledge with paediatrics, dry needling and other evidence based techniques to take a gentle approach to chiropractic and allow people to have the most effective treatment.

Brigitte has been an elite gymnast for 8 years before the injury, with her favourite apparatus, the beam. She is still very involved with gymnastics as she is an Advanced Gymnastics Coach and an Intermediate Gymnastics Judge with a club in Hornsby, coaching with a range of levels from kindygym, dance, school classes to high level gymnasts.

* Brigitte ceased practice at IC Sports Therapies in January 2019.

⏰ Christmas ’17 – New Year ’18 Clinic Hours ⏰

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Christmas 2017 graphic, a Stylised Tree with Star

For Christmas 2017 – New Year’s 2018 our Clinic hours will be as follows:

  • We will be closed for Christmas Day and Boxing Day December 25th-26th, and for December 27th.
  • We will be available by appointment only on Thursday December 28th and Friday December 29th.
  • We will be closed for New Year’s Day January 1st and for January 2nd, 2018

We will open for our normal hours of 7am-6pm from January 3rd onwards.

Book today to reserve your appointment time.

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Change of clinic hours 16 Oct – 27 Oct 2017

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Changing our hours

We would like to advise that IC Sports Therapies are changing our opening hours for the two-week period Monday 16 October to Friday 27 October 2017.

The changed hours are in response to our reduced staffing levels, with our Principal Therapist  Nicki Cooke away, serving as a Team Therapist at the Indoor Cricket Masters Trans-Tasman tournament in Mount Maunganui, New Zealand.

The continuing needs of our clients are being met by Jason, Colin and Lisa, our Physiotherapy, P.T. & Pilates, and Swedish Massage therapists.

For both weeks of 16-27 October, our clinic hours will be 8:00am – 5:00pm. Our phones will be answered by Steve, who will answer your enquiries and take your bookings.

For these weeks, our therapists are available by appointment as follows:

• Jason: Mon 8am-12 noon, Tue 9am-6pm, Wed 8am-12 noon, Thu 9am-6pm, and Fri 8am-12 noon.

• Colin: Mon 11am-3pm, Tue 8:30am-1pm, and Thursday 8am-3pm.

• Lisa: Wed 9am – 4pm, and Friday 9am-6:30pm.

From 30 October we will again have our full complement of staff, and will resume our normal opening hours of 7:00am to 6:00pm, Monday to Friday.

Please note that Nicki already has limited bookings available for the weeks before 14 October, so we advise you to get in and book a time with Nicki ASAP.

On-line Bookings for the next 120 days can be made any time, at http://icsportstherapies.com.au/bookings/.

Best regards

IC Sports Therapies

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Services and prices, effective July 1st 2017

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A few change, most stay the same

In response to numerous increases in our costs (e.g. our electricity daily supply charge is a cheeky 30% higher than a year ago), we are revising some of our service fees. We are sure you understand. Thank you for your continued loyalty and custom.

Effective 1st July 2017, our pricing schedule is as follows:

  • Remedial Massage, Sports Massage, Lymphatic Drainage: $70/½hr, $100/hr, $145/1½hrs
  • Hot Stone Massage: $120/hr
  • Swedish Relaxation Massage: $70/hr
  • Relaxation Massage: $70/hr
  • Physiotherapy: $90/½hr
  • Pilates Group Session (max 4): $22.50/hr/pp
  • Cardio Boxing Session (max 2): $35/hr/pp
  • Personal Trainer (1-on-1): $70/hr
  • Shockwave Therapy: $50/15mins
  • Facial Therapy: $70/hr
  • Moor Therapy from $40/hr
  • Postural Assessment: $80
  • Balance Assessment: $80
  • Management & Treatment of Sports Injuries  P.O.A.
  • Sports & Postural Taping from $10
  • Sports Trainer Coverage from $35/hr
  • Sports Event Risk Assessment from $40/hr
  • Sports First Aid Supplies See our shop
  • Sports Strapping (on customer site) P.O.A.
  • Sports Taping and First Aid Training: minimum 6 participants required

Half-hour Treatments and Concession Rates are available.

We accept most payment methods.

 

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