"You can never be well unless the whole is well"
(Plato)
Sports Massage ...
Sports massage therapy … is to help alleviate the stress and tension, which builds up in the body’s soft tissues during physical activity, due to injury or life's stresses. Minor injuries and lesions occurring, due to overexertion and/or overuse, sports massage can break them down quickly and effectively. And above all, it can help prevent those niggling injuries that so often get in the way of performance and achievement, whether one is an athlete, focused keep-fitter or a once a week jogger. This treatment is not just for the sports person, anyone can benefit from sports massage, including people in physically demanding jobs and those not quite so obvious stresses (occupational, emotional and postural stress may produce many similar characteristics to sports injuries).
Sports massage tends to be deeper and more intense (therefore knowledge of muscles and human body is essential). It often incorporates a combination of other techniques involving stretching, compression, friction, toning, and trigger point response techniques. Sports massage techniques are specifically designed to aid in the maintenance of healthy muscles.
BENEFITS ...
- Relaxation
- Anxiety reduction
- Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness Prevention
- Rehabilitates Injured Muscles
- Reduces Chronic Pain
- Improves Blood Pressure
- Increased tissue permeability
- Break down scar tissue
- Improve tissue elasticity
- Opens micro-circulation
- Pumping and activating lymphatic system