Heard about Sports Massage?

Sports Massage is a term applied to the discipline of using massage for the benefit of all sports and exercise participants. Covered by this is the management, manipulation and rehabilitation of soft tissues of the body e.g. muscles, ligaments, and tendons.

Regardless of whether you exercise, play sport, keep fit or compete from club to international level, then sport’s massage may have something to offer you. Today more and more people are involved in physical exercise therefore Sports Massage should be tailored to each individual’s needs to positively enhance their ability to perform.

Physical improvement usually encourages greater effort in training. Competitive sportsmen push themselves to extreme limits and so have special needs which must be taken into account when preventing injuries and providing fine-tuning. Massaging the body warms the muscles due to the increase in blood flow, helping to reduce tension and relax muscles. Warm muscles will contract easier than when cold, they work more efficiently and the chance of sprains, strains, micro tears or other types of injuries are reduced.

With massage the therapist can remove the accumulation of general aches and pains that some sportsmen either seem to accept as normal due to their gradual build up or try to suppress with drugs. These aches and pains can lead to more serious problems thus the benefits of massage for injury prevention is great. With specific injuries massage can explore the soft tissue more intimately than any other therapy and problem areas can be diagnosed and treated very accurately.


Here are some of the benefits of Sports Massage:

•Improve circulation and lymphatic flow
•Sedate or stimulate nerve endings
•Increase or decrease muscle length
•Assist in the mental preparation for sport’s participation
•Assist in the removal of metabolic waste
•Increase or decrease muscle tone
•Remodel scar tissue when required