Benefits

Promoting Overall Health and Well-being

Sports & remedial massage can help people of all ages with all levels of activity to improve their overall health and well being with relief from muscular pain or tension. Poor posture, strain, injury or stress in addition to regular or repetitive activities can cause a build up of tension in the muscles. This tension can then lead to further stresses on joints, ligaments and tendons in addition to the muscles themselves. A skilled massage therapist will be able to detect variations in the soft tissue and use a variety of appropriate techniques, such as trigger point therapy and muscle energy techniques to help address the associated muscular pain and tension, restoring balance to the musculo-skeletal system.

Work related muscular pain and tension

Long hours sat with poor posture either at a desk or in the car can cause a build up of tension, this can then cause pain referral headaches and stiffness through the back and shoulders. Sports and remedial massage can be an effective means of releasing this tension.

Reduced Range of Movement (ROM) & Muscle Imbalances

Muscle imbalances can develop over time and only come to cause an individual  problems if there has been another factor putting further demand on the body, be it sport, work or injury related. If you take part in a sport or activity and feel you do not have an adequate ROM to perform movements to the best of your ability then sports & remedial massage treatment can be an effective means of increasing range of movement as well as addressing muscle imbalances. This sort of treatment works best when the soft tissue work is accompanied by a strengthening programme, either prescribed by your physiotherapist, personal trainer or a combined Massage-Pilates treatment, more info.

Exercise Recovery

Tight, stiff and heavy muscles after a training session, run or visit to the gym can start to cause more problems with an increased risk of injury if you are not addressing your recovering correctly. Sports & remedial massage is an excellent addition to your recovery plan, reducing muscle tone, promoting blood and lymphatic flow, sedating nerve endings and helping in the removal of metabolic waste.  

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