 Sports Massage is not only regarded by athletes and coaches as playing an essential role in enhancing athletic performance and preventing injury. It is also important for gym goers, and people who like general exercise. Sports Massage aims to improve the suppleness and increases flexibility and range of movement. This results in a faster healing process and has the unique benefit of breaking down scar tissue, which can otherwise lead to reduced tissue mobility. Sports massage improves blood circulation, speeds up the healing of damaged tissues and joints and can prevent injury through early detection of muscle dysfunction.
Benefits of Our Sports Massage
- Increases blood flow
- Increases joint range of motion (ROM)
- Increases your flexibility
- Increases elimination of exercise waste products (lactic acid)
- Increases your sense of well-being
- Decreases muscle tension
- Decreases neurological excitability (nerves more relaxed)
- Decreased muscle spasms
Some of the Contraindications for Sports Massage
- Feeling unwell
- Open wounds, recent bruising, muscle tears, sprained ligaments, chilblains, burns
- Tumours - Where there is swelling, which is inconsistent with recent bruising
- Diseased blood vessels
- Cancer
- Haemophilia
- Where you react adversely to massage treatment
- Where your symptoms appear to make advice from a doctor advisable
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