25 12 2013

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.

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