A YORK massage therapist is vowing to make Jamaican sprinter Yohan Blake the fastest man on earth, dethroning his team-mate Usain Bolt.

Errol Lynch, who practises the ancient therapy of Tuina (twee-na) from within the city walls, flew to Jamaica last month to treat Blake, who has been struggling with a hamstring injury that forced him to miss the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.

After three Tuina treatments, Blake, aka The Beast and currently the second fastest man in the world, hit the running track saying he was “feeling really good”.

Errol has been invited back to Jamaica in April to continue the treatment and hopes Tuina will give Blake the edge he needs to beat Bolt on the track.

The therapist said he purposefully chose not to treat Bolt so the world could see the effectiveness of the therapy. He said: “If I treat Bolt and he stays at number one, people won’t know how good Tuina is. But if number two becomes number one there will be greater interest in Tuina.”

Tuina has been practised in China for 4,000 years and is a deep tissue massage that works on the muscles and joints with a view to boosting circulation and promoting healing. It is used on all sorts of ailments, from sports injury to neck and shoulder pain and headaches.

Speaking in a video on Errol’s YouTube channel, Blake confirmed the treatment had been effective.

He said: “I did a surgery in July. I was feeling some pain and soreness around the area then I got the treatment from Errol here... after the first day of treatment I have been feeling really good.

"My leg was firing, my back was much freer, my arm was coming back.”

He said Tuina was like nothing he had experienced before.

“I am not finding a massage therapist or doctor who can find a pressure point in the body like that, in the back, who can loosen every part of the muscles that you don’t even have to touch the spot,” he said.

“And it’s not only me talking about it, it’s been my coach, the number one sprinting coach in the world talking about it.”

Errol is the leading practitioner of Tuina in the UK and runs two clinics in York, one in St Saviour’s Place, the other at the Northern School of Acupuncture in Micklegate, and a third in London.

He says one of his aims is to work with the Jamaican team at the Olympic Games in Rio next year, where he hopes his treatment on Blake will allow him to beat Bolt and turn him into the fastest sprinter in the world.

Errol said: “If this happens, the world will see how great Tuina is.”