Sports Massage Therapy
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Loading ...What is a Sports Massage?
• Sports Massage is a special massage therapy that is developed for maximum benefits to sports persons from their respective sports. It focuses on muscle systems relevant to their sports.
• It involves different massage approaches when a sports person is undergoing training to prepare for an event, during the competition and after performing at a sporting event.
Categories of Sports Massage
Sports massages can be typically categorized as Maintenance Massage, Event Massage, and Rehabilitation Massage
Maintenance massage
Sports persons follow a stringent training routine to improve their skill, stamina, speed, strength and flexibility. Similarly they should include Sports maintenance massage as a part of their regular training program to keep their body in well conditioned, injury free and raring to go.
Event Massage
Sports massages during competitive events are further classified as:
Pre Event: As part of the warm up to a competitive event, a warm up massage is given about 4 hours prior to the event. This improves circulation, focuses on conditioning of major muscles to be used, reduces anxiety and helps to improve performance
Post Event: A post event massage is mainly a warm down massage after the severe and intense activity which may result in spasms. It helps to relax the body and mind completely and gear for upcoming events.
Rehabilitation Massage
When sports persons suffer from injuries, sports massages help speed up the recovery from muscles cramps, ligament tears, bruises, and aches. It reduces discomfort during rehabilitation.
Benefits of a Sports Massage
• Sports massage helps to prevent injuries and improves flexibility
• Sport massage helps to maintain the body well conditioned thus, extends the lifespan of your sporting career
• Sports massage helps reduce anxiety and produces an energizing feeling and boosts performance
• Sports massage helps reduce tension in muscles, relax muscles, release endorphins and helps reduce pain.
• Sports massages helps cure injuries, restores mobility to injured muscle tissue.
In short; Sports massage aids sports persons to achieve highest performance, reduce muscle tension, improe flexibility, remove swelling, curtail injuries and drain away fatigue.
Sports Massage Techniques
Each sport has different demands on the body of players. Each sport uses a different set of muscle groups. Sports massage is developed in such a way as to address specific concerns of sports persons.
Sports massage therapists make use of a variety of massage techniques such as Swedish Massage, Shiatsu Massage, Compression Massage, Cross-Fiber Massage, Trigger Point or Tender Point Massage, Lymphatic Massage
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