Why Have a Sports massage?
Whether you're aiming for peak performance or simply seeking relief from the tightness of daily life, sports massage offers a host of powerful physical benefits
Targeted Benefits
Sports massage is a targeted treatment that goes beyond general relaxation. It is a vital tool for maintaining and optimising the body's function. Specifically, it can help to:
Speed Up Recovery: Reduce recovery time and accelerate the healing of damaged or overworked tissue and muscles.
Prevent Injury: Identify current muscle weakness, tightness, and developing problems before they turn into major injuries, thereby increasing your overall fitness capabilities.
Improve Mobility: Assist in breaking down adhesions (knots) that develop in muscles and fascia to improve suppleness and joint flexibility.
Optimise Performance: Assist the body's systems to work at their optimum level by improving lymph and blood circulation, which helps you regain and maintain peak performance faster.
Post-Event Relief: Clear out metabolic waste and toxins like lactic acid after an event, which dramatically reduces stiffness and speeds up recovery.
Tailored for your training Cycle
Maintenance and Events
We utilise sports massage with distinct aims, depending on where you are in your activity cycle:
Maintenance
Objective: To manage soft tissue dysfunction, promote long-term recovery from past injuries, and improve overall posture and alignment.
Treatment: Performed between events or training cycles, maintenance massage often includes targeted techniques like soft tissue release, muscle energy techniques, and neurological work to keep muscles supple and balanced.
Post-Event
Objective: To assist the body in rapid recovery after a major event. It focuses on the removal of metabolic waste and lactic acid, aiding lymphatic drainage, and promoting overall restoration.
Treatment: Performed within a few hours to days after the event. This is generally a calmer, slower massage that utilises broad techniques like effleurage and gentle petrissage to soothe tissues, rather than deeper work.
Compliments
Sports massage works powerfully alongside a variety of other health and wellness practices by focusing specifically on the physical soft tissues of the body.
It pairs naturally with therapies that address posture, energy, and overall wellbeing:
Energy and Balance: While therapies like Acupuncture, Shiatsu, Crystal Therapy, and Reiki focus on balancing the body’s energy channels, sports massage provides the crucial physical soft tissue response to promote healing, release tightness, and relax the muscles those energy channels pass through.
Remedial Focus: While Remedial Massage focuses on traditional relaxation and tension relief, sports massage can be utilised to target specific areas with rehabilitation techniques, providing a layered approach to recovery.
Benefits for everyone
Like general massage, sports massage is highly effective in promoting overall wellbeing and physical comfort. These benefits apply to everyone, regardless of activity level:
Improve Suppleness and Flexibility: Massage helps improve the range of motion and elasticity of joints and muscles.
Boost Circulation: It improves lymph and blood circulation, which assists the body’s systems in working at their optimum performance.
Promote Relaxation: Both types of massage are excellent for releasing general tension and stress stored in the body.
