What is Sports Therapy?
Sports Therapy, also known as Sports Massage is a deep tissue massage. It focuses on identifying and treating specific musculoskeletal conditions, incorporating techniques such as gliding and kneading massage strokes, trigger point, stretching and joint mobilisation, to improve mobility, enhancing performance and relieving pain in muscles, tendon and ligaments. Whether this is for injury rehabilitation, or maintaining good muscle health, Sports Therapy is a optimal tool for improving your physical well-being.
How will Sports Therapy help me?
Sports massage works by identifying and treating areas of muscle dysfunction. It can address issues such as muscle imbalances, postural tension and restricted mobility caused by everyday activities, gym or playing sports. The treatment is tailored to you, it can be used to treat the whole of you, or a specific area.
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If you are someone who partakes in sports, a sports massage can help your physical and psychological state for preparation of an event, or even post sport recovery. By stimulating circulation, creating passive stretch within muscle tissue, removal of lactic acid, maintaining muscle elasticity, helps prevent the risk of injury and maintaining muscular condition.
What to expect in a Sports Therapy appointment?
During your appointment, you can expect a thorough assessment where symptoms, areas of pain and medical history is discussed. An assessment of both physical and hands-on examination styles to identify the problem. Then, you will receive the massage treatment. Any advice for injury prevention, nutritional changes, sports performance enhancement and rehabilitation will be given.
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We are also able to offer Dry Needling, Medical Cupping, Sports Taping and use of other tools, such as massage guns during your appointments.