So what are the benefits of Sports massage and Sports Therapy?
By manipulating the soft tissue, sports massage helps prevent injury, aids recovery and promotes improved performance.
Whilst beneficial to athletes, Sports massage has many properties that everyone may benefit from, such as aiding with the breaking down of scar tissue, improved elasticity and flexibility of muscles due to stretching of the tissue, and increased movement in the joints.
Other benefits can also include: generalise relaxation due to decreased tightness in the muscle tissues and increased circulation.
Therefore, patients may experience a reduction in tension and pain, and an improvement in both sleep quality and general movement.