COMING SOON
Nicky Snazell’s powerful new novel weaves a fictional story with science and healing to explain how trauma locked in from the distant past can cause long-term, unresolved pain.
After decades of listening to people’s pain — shoulders that never quite relaxed, backs that carried too much, hearts that forgot how to rest — I finally wrote the story I have witnessed in so many of you.
Seven Lives, One Truth is not just a novel. It’s a journey back to the moment where emotional or physical trauma first took root — the moment the body buried it, and pain began to grow quietly through a lifetime.
Over the years, many of you have told me
“Nicky… I don’t know why this hurts. Nothing happened.”
But something had always happened.
Sometimes decades ago. Sometimes in childhood. Sometimes long before memory began.
This book travels through time to meet those forgotten moments — with compassion, with truth, with the healing presence I’ve spent my life practising. And it asks a simple but life-changing question:
What if healing the past could set your present free?
I’ve also written a song, Beyond Time, for the book launch — a deeply emotional piece that captures the heart of the story: the crash, the trauma, the souls seeking peace, and the light that guides us back home.
It was written for anyone who has ever carried pain too long. For anyone who has healed others but forgotten themselves. And perhaps… for you.
Thank you for letting me walk beside you on your healing journeys,
and for inspiring the pages of this book more than you know.
With warmth and enormous gratitude,
Nicky Snazell
We hope you liked “Beyond Time”, a song written and produced by Nicky, and that you are excited that you will soon be able to read “Seven Lives, One Truth”. The hope is that many of you will be able to identify similarities between your own personal situation and at least one of the avatars in the book, and in so doing be able to recognise your own trauma may be locked in from your past.
You may well have family or friends who have suffered long term pain and never understood why and thus never realised help was available. Please forward this email to all you think this may help.
Of course, you may just like “Beyond Time” enough to send the link to others so that they may enjoy the song as well.
If you would like to register your interest to buy the book “Seven Lives, One Truth” and be one of the first to receive it, then please complete the form below:
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What’s The Difference And Why It Matters To You
Shockwave therapy has been around for years and now many clinics use it. Most of what’s out there, though, is radial shockwave. It’s great technology and has helped thousands of people recover from injury and get out of pain. We know, because we’ve used it for years ourselves and we’re big believers in it.
But like most things in life, one size doesn’t fit all. And that’s where focused shockwave comes in.
How Shockwave Works
Both types use acoustic energy (sound waves) to stimulate healing. These waves kick start your body’s own repair process, improving blood flow, helping new tissue grow, breaking down stubborn scar tissue, and reducing pain.
The key difference is how far and how accurately the energy travels.
A radial shockwave is like a ripple spreading across a pond. It starts strong at the surface and gradually fades as it goes deeper. That makes it perfect for treating more superficial problems, such as:
- Plantar fasciitis (also known as Policeman’s Foot)
- Tennis or golfer’s elbow
- Achilles tendinopathy (the upper part, near the skin)
- Shoulder or knee pain near the surface
- Calcific tendonitis
It’s safe, effective and widely available. We have several radial machines at our clinic because they deliver great results when used for the right problems.
Focused Shockwave. The Specialist Tool
Focused shockwave is a very different animal, and it’s rarely available in the UK. Instead of spreading out, it converges at a specific point deep in the tissue. Think of it like using a magnifying glass to focus sunlight. The energy can reach far deeper and be positioned much more precisely, even pinpointing structures several centimetres below the skin.
This opens the door to treating things that radial shockwave simply can’t reach:
- Deep-seated tendon and muscle injuries
- Bone stress or delayed healing
- Chronic hip, back or pelvic pain
- Conditions that have resisted other forms of treatment
It’s horses for courses
At the Nicky Snazell Clinic, we use both technologies because we know they each have their place. If the injury is close to the surface, radial shockwave is ideal as it’s efficient, comfortable and proven.
But if the problem lies deeper, a focused Radial Shockwave is the tool for the job. It can go right to the source of the pain with pinpoint accuracy, triggering the healing process exactly where it’s needed.
Why this matters to you
Very few clinics have focused shockwave, and they rely on radial shockwave, which limits what they can treat.
By having both radial and focused shockwave, we can match the treatment to the condition, not the other way round. That means faster recovery, longer-lasting results, and fewer frustrations when a stubborn injury just won’t shift.
Focused shockwave represents a big leap forward in non-invasive healing. And, as you’ll see in our next blog, it’s not just a new gadget, it’s part of a much bigger step in precision pain treatment.
If you are in pain and nothing has helped, then our combination of both radial and focused shockwave might just be the technology that makes the difference.
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Whenever we have had a life-changing trauma, the whole body records it. Physically as well as mentally, our fight or flight reactions can hard-wire responses.
In a traumatic moment, if we have been emotionally abused or upset or terrified or hurt, the body tenses. Our bodies are covered with a layer of fascia (imagine bubble wrap as an analogy). The fascia gets taut, the muscles tighten and at that moment, these contractures can get stuck, and left untreated, they are there forever. The trauma of a particular emotional of physical event is locked in the body.
A background rumble, aching away, and that's because the tightness is not allowing enough oxygen and nutrition to get to those precious nerves underneath. That can lead to horrible, unrelenting chronic pain.
The wonderful thing about this is you don't need to hang onto that chronic pain.
Read on
The solution requires delving deeper into the tissue layers of the body. This is where you can obtain healing from deeply hidden emotional and physical pain. Deep in your body you are walking through the catacombs of your mind and accessing its memories. An archaeological dig of past emotions.
Massage has been used for thousands of years to help treat pain, the level of success linked to the knowledge and expertise of the masseur. The physiotherapy profession started with masseurs and has steadily evolved as its knowledge and understanding of how the body works and how each muscle, ligament, tendon and fascia contributes to the body function.
Our physiotherapists are thus highly trained masseurs and will use their hands to help identify specific problems and trigger points where pain is localised and intense.
Once the problem has been identified your therapist has many technology options to massage, some suited for very deep problems and others for shallow problems. While a therapist may choose at times to use his hands and body to treat, it may well be that our broad technology base provides more effective treatment and be preferable to you.
- Radial shockwave has the ability to penetrate deeply and strongly to release tight constricting contractures in the muscles and heal angry tendons.
- Our V-Actor massage technology provides a soothing deep massage and is great at improving circulation and reducing pain.
- Our deep oscillation technology provides a soothing frequency that resonates in a way to calm pain, inflammation, and fear.
We will use various techniques to get into those trigger points, those pain bodies. Our therapists are also trained in energy medicine, beginners to Reiki Master level, and will be very aware of energetically releasing that trigger point whilst listening and working with your emotions. For you, it is a wonderful, emotional moment when you get a release from something that's haunted you for very long time.
You may have suffered with pain for a long time. Maybe you have pain or trauma you haven't shared with you own physiotherapist and perhaps now feel more confident in asking them about this type of treatment.