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| Sport Massage Prices | 60 minutes | Full body | £40 |
| 60 minutes | Focused on particular muscles | £40 | |
| 90 minutes | Full body | £55 | |
| 45minutes | Focused on particular muscles | £30 | |
| Availability | |||
| Mon - Thurs 8am - 8pm, Friday 9am - 6pm, Sat 10am - 4 pm, Sun 12 - 4pm | |||
What is Sports Massage?
We offer innovative Sports Massage to Scottish athletes of all levels. Elite professional and amateur level competitors are finding that Sports Massage is giving them the "edge" they've been looking for.
Sports massage therapy offers these proven benefits: 
- Enhanced athletic performance
- Fewer injuries
- Restored flexibility and range of motion
- Faster recovery from injury
- Removal of lactic acid buildup
Take your performance to the next level. Feel the difference that professional sports massage can make.
Sports massage is designed to help the body recover from the higher levels of 'abuse' and punishment that athletes put themselves through. This enhanced recuperation helps keep performance at an optimum but also helps an athletes career last longer. Sportsmen and women are having longer and longer careers and must keep themselves as free from strain and injury as possible over the course of a career.
The same applies to recreational sports, the bar has been raised, more of us are out there doing more and more extreme things with our bodies and for longer.
Benefits of Our 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
- Reduces excessive scar tissue build up - Scar tissue cannot be gotten rid of but can be kept at a minimum.
- 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
What should I expect in a Sports Massage
You will be taken though a consultation with the therapist to ensure you have no contra-indications to treatment, or if you have any particular problem areas you wish to bring to the therapists attention.
It is also important that the therapist understands your sport and knows what imbalances you may have and account for them in a treatment plan.
Techniques used in Sports Massage
- Usually the therapist will start working in the area using strong swedish strokes while palpating for muscle tension, adhesions etc
- Deep tissue strokes such as myofascial stripping
- A range of techniques some of which derived from Swedish and some from European NMT: Kneading, Friction, Transverse Stroking, longitudinal muscle fibre strokes, Compressive effleurage, Compressions, Tapotement, PRT and MET
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Nerve Stroke
About Embody Sports Massage Therapists
Our sports therapist are qualified and experienced in working with all levels of athletes and over a variety of sports including:
- Football
- Rugby
- Hockey
- Thai Boxing
- Distance running
- Sprinters
- Weightlifting including powerlifting
- Strength Athletes
- Tae Kwon Do
- Road Cycling
- XC and Downhill Mountian biking
- Triathletes
- Volleyball
- Armwrestling
How To Book An Appointment For Sports Massage
Call us : 0141 551 9678
Email us: info@embody-massage.co.uk
Visit Us: Greenhead Street, Glasgow Green, Glasgow, G40 1ES - There's loads of free parking available right outside. Click MAP to find us.
Prices: click here for our price list.
