Sports Massage

Sports massage is designed to help athletes prepare their bodies for optimal performance, recover after a sports event, or improve function during training. Sports massage incorporates many different bodywork modalities including:

• Deep Tissue Massage, using muscle-specific applications of the standard effleurage, petrissage, vibration, and tapotement techniques.

• Compression Therapy, using rhythmic compression into muscles used to create a deep hyperemia and softening effect in the tissues. It is generally used as a warm-up for deeper, more specific massage work.

• Cross Fiber Massage, using friction techniques applied in a general manner to create a stretching and broadening effect in large muscle groups; or on site-specific muscle and connective tissue, deep transverse friction applied to reduce adhesions and to help create strong, flexible repair during the healing process.

• Trigger Point Therapy, using combined positioning and specific finger or thumb pressure into trigger/tender points in muscle and connective tissue, reducing hypersensitivity, muscle spasms and referred pain patterns that characterize the point. Left untreated, such trigger/tender points often lead to restricted and painful movement of entire body regions.


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