Sports / Event Massage

Sports Massage

  The prime purpose of sports massage therapy is to help alleviate the stress and tension which builds up in the body’s soft tissues during physical activity. Where minor injuries and lesions occur, due to overexertion and/or overuse, massage can break them down quickly and effectively. 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, ardent keep fitter or a once a week jogger.

Sports massage has many benefits. In addition to feeling good, it reduces the heart rate and blood pressure, increases blood circulation and lymph flow, reduces muscle tension, improves flexibility and relieves pain. Overuse of a specific group of muscles through repetitive exercise will result in aches and pains especially after a particularly hard training session. This can be helped and prevented by regular sports massage. This treatment breaks down scar tissue and removes the build up of toxins, improves mobility and reduces the risk of further injury. Using a mixture of deep and powerful strokes, blood and lymph flow is encouraged to carry damaged tissue away from problem areas.

Those who are looking to relieve muscular aches and pains or treat sports injuries will be interested in sports massage. Deep tissue massage is suitable for all – not just a sports person. These massages benefit injuries, general stiffness and muscular aches and pains. Treatments can be based around problem areas and for the sports person treatments can be tailored to pre/post sports massage.

Event Massage
  Pre and post event massage therapies are tailored for distinct purposes. Pre–event treatment is used as a supplement to an athlete’s warm up to enhance circulation and reduce excess muscle and mental tension prior to competition. It is tailored to the needs of the athlete and his/her event and can be relaxing or stimulating as appropriate. Post–event massage, on the other hand, is geared towards reducing the muscle spasms and metabolic build up that occur with rigorous exercise. Various sports massage techniques enhance the body’s own recovery process improving the athlete’s ability to return to training and competition, and reducing the risk of injury.