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She came to the UK from India, where she was originally from a middle class family, and had studied Fashion Design and Business Studies. After getting married to someone in the UK when she was 20, Tammy survived 4-5 years of domestic violence. “I ended up in a hostel with my little boy, 2 years old at the time,” Tammy explained. “People at the hostel helped me to get back on track, they showed me where I could go, and what I could do study wise. “I started English and Maths with LearnDirect while I was in the hostel, after the manager of the hostel recognised that I was educated, but I just needed to get qualified over here. “Since that day until now I still study, I still enrol on courses to upgrade my knowledge every year.” Tammy’s first job in the UK was actually on the checkouts at ASDA, but from the first day of walking into the store, she wanted more for herself and her son, and set her sights on working for herself. “My family background was in business, both my mum and dad ran their own businesses, so I wanted to do the same, so I could give the life I had to my son too.” “Unfortunately continuing with Fashion wasn’t on the cards, they said I’d need to go to Milan or France to do the assignments, and as I was alone in this country with no family or friends, there was no way I’d have been able to do that.” Choosing to get into beauty instead, she started as a mobile nail technician while she was still working at ASDA, which picked up really well for a while, visiting peoples homes to do their nails. “I then became qualified in fitness and became a fitness instructor running a ladies-only gym, doing 1 to 1 training with people.” “Since I started in health and beauty I’ve always had that health mindset, how we can help people
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instead of just building a business up. Most of my clientele were 60+ at the gym, but then I started getting younger people in too.” Tammy continued, “It’s very important in business, to build that relationship with your clients.” It was around this time that Tammy married again, and had her second child, a baby girl. The damage to her stomach tissue from the emergency caesarean meant that Tammy couldn’t do her work anymore, and took the difficult decision to sell the business off. “I wanted to repair my stomach in a quicker and more natural way, and after researching about my options I came across cryotherapy. I had 2 sessions of cryotherapy on my stomach and I was able to touch my stomach where I couldn’t do that before. “I could sit up normally, and was so amazed, I invested in the machine even before we became Active Clinic, and set up from home. “Because I was working from home I never thought I’d put a clinic together, with the kids etc it would be a hassle. “But my business partner Hilal Mehdi, also a Co-Director of Active Clinic, convinced me to create the dedicated clinic because it will be more professional, so we named Active Clinic in 2014, and finally established in 2016.” Tammy remembers how one day she had a Costa Rican player come through her door when she was still working from home, he had travelled from Manchester to Birmingham for a 15 minute treatment on his back, and she thought he was crazy. “I had a call from him on the evening of the same day, saying he was staying in Birmingham and wanted to book another session the next day because he was already feeling better after the first session. “At the time, no other clinic or
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l Hilal Mehdi and Tammy Takkar, Co-Directors of Active Clinic practitioner was doing cryotherapy in Birmingham, so we decided to start up.” With Tammy’s experience and knowledge, Active Clinic also does everything else including laser and skin treatments. “We always think about internal health, it’s not just about beauty. Our lasers are painless, they work with water, so it’s not just laser hair removal but rejuvenation too.
“Our skin treatments deal with pigmentation and acne, and they’re all herbal treatments. We trained with Dr Schrammek from Germany after more research. “Cryotherapy helps your blood vessels to expand, and improve blood flow, it can also repair muscle 40% quicker than the regular healing time. I had whiplash a few weeks ago, and because of the cryo and oxygen therapy we offer
here, I’m nearly recovered already, instead of what the doctors said which was 8-10 weeks.” Based at 273 Hagley Road, in Edgbaston, Birmingham, Active Clinic is a bright, clean and inviting place to visit. Over the last 5 years, Active Clinic has seen many people struggling with stress and depression, unable to walk, skin disorders, and other long term health conditions, all of
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whom they’ve managed to help find a solution for. “It makes us so proud when we see the difference before and after these treatments for people. When we introduced cryotherapy we had a localised machine which offers targeted treatments to the area. “Because we started having the footfall of boxers, footballers, athletes and the like, we introduced the whole body cryotherapy
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