Sports Massage is used to treat muscular imbalances, strains, sprains, or any other injuries where the skin is intact. Removes adhesions (knots) that can be the cause of your pain or injury. Sports massage involves ‘hands on’ manipulation of the body’s deep or soft tissues, through a wide range of massage techniques tailored to your bodies needs with the aim to, reduce muscle tightness and tension, reduce pain and give relief, provide increased blood flow back to the treated muscles and help improve flexibility and range of motion. Sports Massage treatment will vary from person to person depending on their injuries/symptoms.

People of all ages from the Olympic athlete to the retiree, sports related, or non-sports related. Extremely beneficial for people who are prone to having injuries, tight muscles or postural conditions. Athletes, gym goers, the 9-5 desk worker, people who do repetitive movements, or for people who are prone to having stress. Sports massage experience will vary from person to person depending on what their injuries or aggravations are.

There are many reasons to seek sports massage treatment, we have all experienced those aches and pains, slouching in a chair, or even more severe injuries. Having these pains can be debilitating in body and mind. Sports massage is a therapy in injury prevention, it can help you get back to your daily life activities.

Pain relief – reduces muscle tension, reduces general fatigue, increases blood flow to treated muscles, speeds up recovery, and reduce delayed muscle onset (DOMs).

Posture – once pain is relieved and muscles/tendons back to their natural state, this will help the body to go back into its natural posture.

Increased range of motion – As the muscle/tendons is worked it will relieve the tension and help restore the muscle/tendons to its natural state and provide the joint with more range of motion.

Reduce stress and anxiety – Throughout the sports massage treatment the body will release endorphins which will encourage relaxation, helping reduce stress/anxiety levels.

Increased body awareness  – you will know when you have trained enough, done too much everyday activities, or when another episode is going to start. This is when you know it is time to slow down and possibly time to seek out more treatment. 

Before treatment can happen, we will carry out a consultation and go over lifestyle details, medical and injury history, any training schedule you are following. We will then use assessment techniques to investigate muscle and joint movement and posture alignment through active, passive, resisted movements and palpation techniques. The information that presents will allow us to tailor your treatment appropriately for best treatment results.