Cramp, pulled muscles and chronic pain can sometimes be part of the sport person’s life;
Massage can render most of the problems significantly less severe.
Massage maintains muscles at their optimum resting length, increase flexibility and so help to lower the incident of soft tissue injuries.
Athletes who do make use of massage as part of their regular training are able to achieve harder, more strenuous and sustained workouts. This results in greater fitness and better performances
Sports massage offers athletes an alternative to such severe and drastic options such as steroid injections and surgery, often recommended by medical doctors.
Benefits of Sports Massage
Sports massage benefits athlete’s and people who exercise by assisting them in the process of overcompensation and adaptation.
- It monitors muscle density and therefore prevents problem areas becoming injuries.
- Improves circulation to the specific area by creating warmth during the friction of massage.
- Improves the very slow lymphatic flow.
- The pumping action of massage causes more blood to be drawn to the area thereby improving the healing process.
- Speeds up toxin and waste removal from the muscle tissue.
- It improves the metabolism of the cell (which increases the exchange of fluids, nutrients and chemicals across the cell membrane) therefore ensuring healthy muscles.
- It speeds up recovery between training sessions.
- Relieves muscle pain and spasm.
- Breaks down adhesion and scar tissue in muscles.
- Improves flexibility in muscles by stretching and relaxing the muscle.
- Restores suppleness and elasticity.
- It improves the range of motion in tense muscles.
- Balances the autonomic nervous system (ANS) therefore relaxing mind and body.
The manipulation of soft tissues prior to and after exercise promotes physical, physiological and psychological changes that aid performance and particularly recovery.
I am a fully qualified massage therapist and I am insured by the Guild of Holistic Therapists.
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