Sports Massage
Speed up recovery
Reduce Pain
Improve Performance
** see bottom of page for January and February 2012 Special Offer **
What is Sports Massage?
Sports massage is a form of massage that utilizes specific strokes to help athletes obtain maximum performance and physical conditioning by increasing power, endurance, and mobility - both before and after an event or exercise.
Who Can Benefit?
Sports massage is particularly beneficial when an athlete is in training for an event. It’s also helpful for anyone who routinely challenges their physical limits through movement. Swimmers, weight lifters, runners, golfers, ball players, skaters, dancers, tennis players, musicians, and boxers, as well as “weekend warriors” and those who practice strength training or aerobics, have benefited from sports massage.
What Areas Will Be Massaged? Sports massage may focus on specific muscles used in your sport or fitness activity. For example, areas of greater stress for runners and cyclists are in the legs and lower back; for swimmers, the shoulders and upper body.
How is Sports Massage Administered?
Sports massage should be a regular part of every athlete’s training program. Athletes have different massage needs at different times. There are three basic categories:
Pre-Event: A treatment can supplement to the warm-up. It will boosts circulation, increase flexibility and range of motion. Pre-event massage can help prevent muscle and tendon injuries and reduce the strain and discomfort of training. It also can be a great psychological advantage in competition.
Post-Event: Recovery after a competition involves not only the normalization and repair of tissue, but also general relaxation and mental calming. Post-event sports massage increases circulation to quicken the removal of fatigue toxins, relieve muscle spasms, and prevent soreness. It is used to assist athletes in recovery and in regaining their pre-event condition by relaxing and assist repair of tight, fatigued muscles, tendons, and ligaments.
Training: Throughout training, regular massage helps prevent injuries. Areas of muscular stress can result from repetitive or stressful motion and are typically precursors to injury. Sports massage assists in relieving muscular stress and preventing injuries, enabling better quality training. Adequate recovery is also a major factor in avoiding nagging minor injuries that inhibit maximum performance.
What Are the Common Causes of Sports Injuries?
Injuries are commonly experienced when an individual has over-trained, fails to sufficiently warm up, receives trauma, or has muscular imbalances, poor flexibility, or simply does too much too soon. Insufficient muscle strength and poor muscle tone may also lead to injury or a muscle tear.
How Can Sports Massage Help in Rehabilitation?
Sports massage can accelerate the healing process, increase range of motion, reduce adhesions, and reduce swelling, bruising, and pain. Areas of stress in other muscles, created through compensating for an injury, can be eased with a regular sports massage program. Sports massage is also used to relieve muscular spasms and fatigue-related injuries.
Why is Sports Massage Recommended Overall?
Muscles
· helps relax muscles
· helps to re-align injured muscle fibers 
· maintains and restore suppleness
· to stimulate muscles before an event
· helps restore balance to avoid injury
Nerves
· reduce pain by controlling the 'pain gate'
· stimulates senses to assist relaxation
· METs can be used to increase muscle length and affect 'tone'
Skin
· warms and exfoliates the skin
· improves blood flow
· maintains flexibility of the skin and improves the resilience of scar tissue
Lymph system
· assists the body remove waste products from exercise
· assists the removal of damaged tissues from injury
Sports massage is more than just a reward at the end of a workout.
It is a vital tool for keeping primed for top performance
Please contact us for more details.
Prices:
Single session 30 minutes £25
Single session 60 minutes £40
Maintenance Programme £20 per month (direct debit)
If you are a regular sports person or have experienced chronic complaints I have a monthly 'maintenace programme' that includes Initial free 60 minute session followed by 12 x 30 minute sessions (once per month)
** Special Offer for January and February 2012 **
For the first 5 new massage clients in January and February 2012
You can purchase an initial 60 min session and a follow up 30 min session within the next 4 weeks
Both for £45
saving £20 !
Appointments are normally held at Tomlinscote Sports Centre on:
Thursday Evenings 5:30, 6:30 and 7:30 pm
Friday Evenings 5:30, 6:30 and 7:30 pm
Saturday Mornings 9:00 and 10:00 am
10% Discounts on massage prices for FCCC and Charlotteville CC members - (evidence of membership card required)
Mobile Service available and Events bookings by arrangement.
Download free leaflet here -> Live-NoLimits Massage Leaflet.pdf