Massage & Injury Management Clinic
Sports Massage Perth
Sports massage is specially tailored to sporting injuries and ailments. It is a type of massage that seeks to treat injuries before they become severe. Sports massage is designed to increase flexibility in healthy muscles thus preventing injuries from occurring. Sports massage helps against built up tension and lactic acid in overworked muscles as it helps increase blood and oxygen to the muscle to help in effectively promoting muscle repair. This type of massage can become vigorous and is not meant to be relaxing. A sports massage can be utilised not only to professional athletes or people who exercise intensely but it can benefit those who do mild to moderate regular exercise such as walking.
The Purpose of Sports Massage
Sports massage is a preventive massage and relieves injuries and conditions that are associated with exercise. This type of massage is meant to reduce and relieve the stress and tension build up within the body’s soft tissues while exercising. A sports massage can be conducted before, during, or after playing sport or exercising as it uses techniques catered to minimise the chances of injury and improve performance. If there is an injury already sports massage can help in reducing recovery time.
What Sports Massage Can Do For You
Sports massage is aimed to treat injuries or aliments that have occurred as a result of exercise. Sports massage has multiple benefits which helps you train or exercise more efficiently. These include;
- reducing muscle tension
- relieving swelling
- relieving pain
- draining away fatigue
- promoting flexibility
- preventing injuries
- improving heart rate and blood pressure
- increasing blood circulation and lymph flow
- treating injuries such as shin splints, tennis elbows, sprains and strains, corked thighs etc
Pre-Event Massage – A sports massage can be used on an athlete before an event however this type of massage is brief and invigorating lasting no more than 20 minutes. This helps to warm up the muscle.
Post-Event Massage– This type of massage is calm and relaxing as the aim is to ease muscle pain, muscle soreness and to reduce inflammation. A post-event massage should last no more than 15- to 20-minutes. Post-event massages encourage the return of blood and oxygen to tense areas, and they flush out metabolic waste products that have built up during strenuous muscle use.
Other services we provide:
- Remedial Massage
- Therapeutic Massage
- Deep Tissue Therapy
- Dry Needling
- General Massage
- Injury Management
- Massage for Back Pain
- Massage for Headaches
- Muscle Energy Technique
- Myofascial Release/Trigger Point Therapy
- Pain Management
- Postural Massage
- Pregnancy Massage
- Reflexology
- Swedish Massage
- Sports Massage
Visit us in one of two locations:
Massage & Injury Management Clinic
9/26 Dugdale Street
Warwick
Perth WA 6024
Australia
(08) 9243 7052
Massage & Injury Management Clinic
29 Carrington St, Nedlands
Perth WA 6009
Australia
(08) 9389 5961
