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The Benefits of Sport Massage
Saski owns and runs Limelight Fitness and is a personal trainer and sports massage practitioner
By Saski Ford
SPORTS MASSAGE IS BENEFICIAL FOR ANYONE WHO SUFFERS FROM MUSCULAR PAIN, DISCOMFORT OR INJURY
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ou do not need to be an athlete to have a sports massage. Of course elite and professional sports people do indeed need to have sports massages in order for them to retain a supple body that works optimally for their chosen sport. And the therapist will know what areas, through assessments and dialogue with the client, what specific areas they need help with. But sports massage also benefits everyday people with aches and niggles. If you move about daily routine with your children or friends, if you do any kind of casual exercise or indeed if you are chair or bed bound, you will get the benefits that sports massage offers.
Moving about in daily life carries some risks of injury and if injury should occur, even if it’s only minor, sports massage will help to get you back into shape ‘tout de suite’ by increasing blood flow to the area, promoting recovery and reducing any inflammation.
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unchecked. Regular sports massage will help to ease the strain put on these areas of your body, reducing the risk of serious problems arising.
Sports massage will help your muscles, as well as your mind, to become more relaxed and loose, allowing them to move more Massage also works to break down any freely and preventing them from becoming scar tissue that has built up around the too tight and stiff. People who drive a lot affected area. Any as part of their job aches, pains and have similar If you do any kind of stiffness that you feel problems and can casual exercise or indeed after exercise can also benefit from sports if you are chair or bed bound, be reduced by massage massage in the same you will get the benefits that by speeding up the way. Anyone sports massage offers removal of lactic acid working in a from your system, physically increasing blood flow demanding job where movements such as and therefore delivery of oxygen to your lifting and carrying heavy objects are muscles and breaking down any tension or regularly required can also benefit from knots in your muscles. regular sports massage to help counteract the stress put on their knee joints, lower Even if you don't do any form of sport or back and shoulders. exercise, our everyday movements still put stresses on our body, which can, over time, So, as you can see, sports massage is not lead to long-term issues. just for athletes at the top of their game. Regular sports massage can help to Many office workers, for example, who prevent and treat injury for anyone, no spend long hours every day sitting at a matter how active they are, improve desk suffer from pain and stiffness in their recovery time and keep you feeling healthy neck, shoulders and lower back, which can and relaxed. become quite serious problems if left
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