What is Sports Massage

A Sports Massage is a form of manual therapy to assess, treat, rehabilitate and help prevent soft tissue imbalances and injuries.

Soft tissues include:

• Muscles

• Tendons

• Ligaments

• Connective tissue (or fascia)

These soft tissues can become tight, tense, imbalanced or dysfunctional, which then presents as complaints such as aches, pains, niggles or injuries.

Benefits of Sports Massage

There are many benefits of having sports massage, but to name a few:

• Alleviate muscular tension

• Break down knots and adhesions

• Improve soft tissue flexibility

• Break down scar tissue

• Help reduce scar tissue post injury

• Improve circulation

• Improve lymphatic flow

These and many more benefits come from having regular sports massage, such as:

• Aids recovery from repetitive or frequent activities

• Identifies tightness and adhesions to help prevent injuries or niggles

• Addresses muscular imbalances caused by every day activities

• Your therapist will get to know your body and know how best to treat it

• Supports regular training plans, especially with higher volume or intensity

My Approach

Although the complaints may present in one area of the body, they can originate elsewhere, which is why it's so important for me to look at the body as a whole unit.

This begins with an assessment of your injury or complaint, including visual alignment and posture checks, together with a range of flexibility and strength tests to give me an overall view of how your body is moving and to locate the most obvious restrictions and causes.

From here I will use relevant sports massage techniques to address the imbalances and provide you with knowledge and rehabilitation and/or preventative exercises to take away with you.

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