Health

The Benefits of Sport Massage

SPORTS MASSAGE IS BENEFICIAL FOR ANYONE WHO SUFFERS FROM MUSCULAR PAIN, DISCOMFORT OR INJURY

a sports massage. Of course elite and professional sports people do indeed need to have sports massages in order for them to retain a supple body that works optimally for their chosen sport. And the therapist will know what areas, through assessments and dialogue with the client, what specific areas they need help with. But sports massage also benefits everyday people with aches and niggles. If you move about daily routine with your children or friends, if you do any kind of casual exercise or indeed if you are chair or bed bound, you will get the benefits that sports massage offers.

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Moving about in daily life carries some unchecked. Regular sports massage will risks of injury and if injury should occur, help to ease the strain put on these areas even if it’s only minor, sports massage will of your body, reducing the risk of serious help to get you back into shape ‘tout de problems arising. suite’ by increasing blood flow to the area, promoting recovery and reducing any inflammation. Sports massage will help your muscles, as well as your mind, to become more relaxed and loose, allowing them to move more Massage also works to break down any freely and preventing them from becoming scar tissue that has built up around the too tight and stiff. People who drive a lot affected area. Any as part of their job aches, pains and If you do any kind of have similar stiffness that you feel after exercise can also be reduced by massage by speeding up the casual exercise or indeed if you are chair or bed bound, you will get the benefits that problems and can benefit from sports massage in the same way. Anyone removal of lactic acid sports massage offers working in a from your system, physically increasing blood flow demanding job where movements such as and therefore delivery of oxygen to your lifting and carrying heavy objects are muscles and breaking down any tension or regularly required can also benefit from knots in your muscles. regular sports massage to help counteract Even if you don't do any form of sport or the stress put on their knee joints, lower exercise, our everyday movements still put back and shoulders. stresses on our body, which can, over time, So, as you can see, sports massage is not lead to long-term issues. just for athletes at the top of their game. Many office workers, for example, who Regular sports massage can help to spend long hours every day sitting at a prevent and treat injury for anyone, no desk suffer from pain and stiffness in their matter how active they are, improve neck, shoulders and lower back, which can recovery time and keep you feeling healthy become quite serious problems if left and relaxed.

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Notes to Self

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