Peak Performance!
Sports Massage is of benefit to all physically active people, but it is most especially beneficial to athletes. This form of massage is used pre and post-event, and during an event when certain muscle, injuries occur. It helps ready your body for peak performance, by relaxing your muscles. Not only do your muscles respond more quickly when they are relaxed, they are also less likely to become injured. During an event, a sports massage therapist works with athletes to reduce muscle fatigue, swelling, and muscle tension.
Sports Massage incorporates aspects of several massage modalities, including Swedish massage, Myofascial release, acupressure, and shiatsu. The resulting blend is designed to treat athletes, and the athletically inclined. The needs of the athlete determines the treatment, and the treatment determines the techniques used.
What it will do for you!
Whether you are a professional athlete, jogger, or a weekend cyclist, sports massage can help you prevent those annoying minor injuries that hinder your performance. Sports massage helps to reduce the build-up of stress and tension in the soft tissues, which occurs during athletic performances. In cases where minor muscle injuries occur, massage can quickly and effectively, break down any lesions that may occur.
Not all events make the same demands on an athlete's body. The muscle groups used by a sprinter are different from those used by a football player, which are different from those used by a golfer, etc. Even similar events put different levels of stress on the same muscle groups; someone running a 100-meter dash is using the same muscles as a jogger, but the conditions they each run under (hills and uneven ground vs. a level and smooth track), put different levels of stress on the same muscle group. Sports massage addresses those muscle groups specific to each athletic event.
Great Benefits!
There are many benefits associated with Sports massage, and are the same as you would expect from the modalities it incorporates. Those benefits include; pain relief, reduction of heart rate and blood pressure, increased blood circulation (this is how the muscles are fed), reduction of muscle tension, improved flexibility and range of motion
A Massage therapist specializing in Sports and Therapeutic massage, Sidney is a professional member of AMTA and a practitioner member of the American Holistic Health Association. He also maintains the PrimalWellness.com website |
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