Sports Massage

Sports massage offers a number of benefits both for athletes and for people in everyday life.

It can help pain reduction, which is often caused by muscle tension and waste products. The massage techniques used work deeper into the muscle tissue than a normal relaxation massage. However, it can still offer relaxation as the muscles relax through the heat that is generated.

Sports massage stretches tissues that cannot be stretched with usual methods, and it can also help break down scar tissue resulting from injury or trauma, while helping the body to remove waste products such as lactic acid. It encourages the muscles to take up oxygen and nutrients to help them recover quicker.

The technique can be used by sports people both pre-event – to stimulate muscle action – and post-event/training, to aid recovery. It plays a huge role in injury prevention and rehabilitation following injury and many athletes find it an important part of their training regime especially if used regularly.

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