Sports Massage Benefits Athletes

Massage is a wonderful way to help our body to feel re-energised, relaxed and primed for sport. There are numerous benefits like helping to reduce the incidence of injuries, improving healing, releasing stiffness of muscle as well as improving flexibility of joints. For the sports fanatic and even for the regular gym-goer, massage can play an integral role in someone’s health-care routine.

The reason why sports massage is important

Many of the clients who have massage at out clinic in Newtown enjoy the benefit to their health and wellbeing in general as well as specific improvements in muscle and joint health. Deep tissue massage and sports massage are two of the types of treatments that may benefit our sports clients. Deep tissue is going to be used for more specific treatments that require a very firm approach and your therapist will have many techniques to use that can help you.

Massage is helpful both before and after a sports event. One of the important benefits of massage is it effect on the nervous system. It can help to alleviate tension before an event and prepare the body and mind. Tension can also show itself as tight muscles and this certainly can adversely effect a sporting performance, so to release this before hand is a definite advantage. Also post-event, relaxing the body and mind can be an important part of the recovery plan and of course, helping the muscles to recover from the activity is an advantage.

Massage helps athletes in the following ways:

Increasing range of motion

Any person who regularly works out or regularly pursues sports activities can see a significant increase in their range of motion following deep tissue or sports massage therapy. Regular massaging increases blood flow to muscles and other soft tissues and when combined with some stretching techniques, the range of motion may increase.

Regular massaging helps keep the muscle supple and healthy. Clients at our clinic have may notice reduced inflammation following a deep tissue massage. At our Newtown massage therapy centre, we used various techniques to improve blood flow and thus promote an anti-inflammatory effect.

Muscle relaxation

The relaxation of muscle tissue is one of the big benefits of massage and it is probably what many people think of when it comes to massage. The combination of blood stimulation, helping the removal of toxins from soft tissue, as well as the soothing effect on the nervous system all, contribute to muscle relaxation. On top of this, there are relaxing effects at a mental and emotional level and this too will help the muscle to relax.

These are some ways our clients who partake in sports activities benefit from deep tissue or sports massage therapy.

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