What is Sports Massage?
Sports Tissue Massage is a form of massage used to help rehabilitation and manipulate the soft tissues of the body including muscles, tendons and ligaments.
The techniques used by sports massage practitioners have been developed to ensure effective and efficient results are gained from each massage given. Sports massage may:
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Improve circulation and lymphatic flow
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Assist in the removal of metabolic waste
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Sedate or stimulate nerve endings
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Increase or decrease muscle tone
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Increase or decrease muscle length
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Remodel scar tissue when required
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Assist in mental preparation for sporting participation
Who can have Sport Massage?
You don’t have to be an athlete to benefit from Sports Massage. The benefits above can help improve and relieve any day to day problems such as repetitive strain injuries, sprains, tension, fatigue and many more problems that everyone experiences.
If you are a sports performer, of any level, a sports specific massage can be beneficial at various stages of participation. For example:
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The conditioning / training phase
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Pre competition
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Inter competition
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Post competition
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Post travel
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Injury prevention
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Injury recovery
Regardless of your experiences in sport or exercise, whether you exercise socially or compete to an international level – sports massage may have something to offer you.
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