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What is Sports Event Massage?
Sports Massage onsite covers a range of potential treatments and modalities. Pre event, post event and inter event sequences and techniques are all different and all designed to enhance the athletes performance and or recovery. Our sports therapists are trained in recognizing sports injuries and how to treat them, they also all hold current first Aid certificates.
Benefits of Our Sports Massage
Many of the benefits of Sports Event Massage are similar to normal sports massage
- Warms the tissue through friction
- Pumps circulation and increases supply of oxygenated blood to the muscles, helps pump by products or respiration out of the muscle tissue such as C02 and lactic acid etc
- Preps the muscles for action and reduces chances of muscle injury from strains and tears
- Break down adhesions in the muscle tissue
- releases myofascial restrictions
- Release muscles spasms and relieve muscle pain, relaxes muscle form shortened or excessively tense state
- Opens microcirculation
- Improved tissue elasticity
- Enzyme release and help balance the autonomic nervous system
Techniques used in Sports Event Massage
Depending on athletes preferences and whether post-event, pre-event or inter-event these may include:
- A range of techniques some of which derived from Swedish and some from European NMT: Kneading, Friction, Transverse Stroking, longitudinal muscle fibre strokes, Compressions, Tapotement
- Nerve Stroke
Sports massage treatments available
- Pre Event sequence - tailored to the athlete and the event - done at the event
- Post event sequence
