• For anyone with aching muscles, musculoskeletal problems
• Anyone who worksout, occasionally or regularly
• Anyone with soft tissue injuries sprains, strains, tears and post surgery
• Anyone with chronic/acute postural problems and muscle imbalances

What is Sports Massage

Sports Massage involves the application of massage and stretching techniques to the muscle and other soft tissue.  This helps ensure that they are healthy and working normally, and to maximise performance.  Tears, sprains, strains, scar tissue can all be treated effectively with sports massage.  If you train regularly, a sports massage helps the general maintenance of the muscles keeping them flexible, supple and potentially injury free.  It can help minimise the risk of injury during training, and aid in injury recovery and rehabilitation.

Sports Massage can help treat conditions of:

• sport/work injuries
• back and neck pain
• rotator cuff and frozen shoulder problems
• sciatica
• knee ligament/cartilage injuries – Runners knee, ITB problems
• ankle sprains
• Achilles problems
• tennis elbow
• golfers elbow
• tendonitis
• shin splints

How often should you have a massage?

As often as you like, for some people a weekly massage helps to recover from training sessions or rehabilitation after injury.  Whilst others find that a maintenance treatment every few weeks helps to improve performance and potentially keep them injury free.

Techniques in Sports Massage

Sports massage is a specialised form of deep tissue massage.  It uses a range of advanced massage techniques, including
STR Soft Tissue Release
Trigger Point Deactivation
MET Muscle Energy Technique
Friction
PNF Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation
NMT Neuromuscular Therapy
Joint Assessment, Postural Assessment, Exercise Therapy, Facilitated Stretching

Treatment – what to expect

Your first session will include a detailed consultation.  This will include your medical history, current condition or injury and all other relevant factors including lifestyle and sport.  A biomechanical assessment is undertaken to create a personalised treatment plan.  This may include postural and exercise advice.  It is important that you feel comfortable and at ease, you will need to change into sports wear such as shorts and T-shirt.

Great care is taken to work within your comfort zones, techniques and approaches are continually explained during the session.  The first session usually takes approximately an hour and 30 minutes.