Sports Massage
This is a speciality within remedial massage that uses (ISRM believes) the same range of clinical skills. Many 'so called' sports injuries have much to do with an athlete's posture and/or other factors outside of their sport, and the distinction between the two is often unclear. The real difference with sports massage is the focus on recovery from training and the early identification and treatment of potential soft tissue problems. With a thorough assessment of the condition of the athlete's soft tissues through massage, the therapist can monitor how he or she is responding to training. This can allow the athlete to 'fine-tune' their training to avoid injury and enhance performance.
Sports massage can be beneficial at various stages of participation. For example:
- The Conditioning/training phase
- Pre competition, a couple of day before a marathon
- Inter competition, at half time
- Post competition, recovery from any sporting event
- Post travel
- Injury prevention
- Injury recovery
Remedial massage
For many thousands of years massage has been used effectively to deal with minor soft tissue conditions (affecting muscles, ligaments and tendons), and its uses and benefits are no less today than they have ever been. The majority of general aches and pains that are caused by lifestyle stresses are minor soft tissue conditions. Although they may recover naturally over time this is often not the case and they can develop into more serious and complex issues. Remedial massage has proved over the years to be a fast and effective way of dealing with these minor soft tissue conditions by assisting the body's own natural repair processes.
For many thousands of years massage has been used effectively to deal with minor soft tissue conditions (affecting muscles, ligaments and tendons), and its uses and benefits are no less today than they have ever been. The majority of general aches and pains that are caused by lifestyle stresses are minor soft tissue conditions. Although they may recover naturally over time this is often not the case and they can develop into more serious and complex issues. Remedial massage has proved over the years to be a fast and effective way of dealing with these minor soft tissue conditions by assisting the body's own natural repair processes.
Benefits of remedial massage:
- Improve circulation
- Assist in the removal of metabolic waste
- Sedate or stimulate nerve endings
- Increase or decrease muscle tone
- Increase muscle length
- Remodel scar tissue
