Massage Therapy and Sports Massage

Sports massage is a therapy that helps athletes and active people to enhance performance, reduce injury and speed up recovery times. A sports massage therapist employs a variety of techniques to ease muscle tension and improve circulation to affected areas of the body.

There are many benefits to regular sports massage treatment

Recovery is the main benefit – the tired muscles are being stretched and the metabolic waste and toxins that build up in muscles are released. The nutrients in the fresh blood being pumped into the muscles helps speed up the recovery process by repairing muscle damage, controls inflammation and any associated pain.

Massage also alleviates trigger points within the muscles, breaks down adhesions and the build up of scar tissue – all of which can affect the function of key muscle groups when racing and training.

Injury prevention is vital – there is no point putting time and effort into hard training sessions only to become injured weeks or days before a key event in the season.

Injury rehabilitation – again there is no point putting the hard effort in only to miss key races during a season because injuries keep returning.

You get to know your body better – this has the benefit of being able to focus key sessions on strengthening weak areas of the muscles and again is key to injury prevention.

It is has psychological benefits – the muscles learn to relax, you know that you body is feeling good before going into a key race or block of hard training and you know that your body is in peak condition.

 

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