Sports massage can be beneficial for athletes and people that lead stressful, active lifestyles. The psychological effects gained by the release of tight muscle tone include the release of endorphins or natural pain killers into the body, which brings the body into a state of relaxation and improved mental clarity.

Pre Event Massage

This is highly beneficial as it assists the warm up process. This involves the use of fast action, effleurage and petrissage, to warm up muscles and supply oxygen and vital nutrients to the body. This helps to reduce the risk of injury to muscle tissue.

Post Event Massage

Intense prolonged exercise causes muscle damage and Post Event Massage aids the natural healing process. Massage increases blood flow, enhancing the healing process, as more blood carries oxygen and nutrients to the strained areas to help nutrients repair damaged tissue.

Benefits of Post Event Massage

• Reduces excessive muscle tone through exercise
• Increases the muscle tone limit and flexibility
• Protects soft tissue predisposed to strain
• Decreases muscle tone and aides athletes in gaining an increased range of motion
• Increases circulation and muscle repair and recovery
• Promotes efficient scar formation post muscle injury
• Aids in the removal of metabolic wastes
• Reduces Spasm
• Reduced pain by decreasing excessive muscle tension
• Aids in athletes relaxation (being stressed leaves the body susceptible to injury)

Remedial Massage

This technique involves the systematic manipulation of muscles, tendons, and ligaments.

Pressure can be hard or soft, deep or shallow, depending on the client’s specific wants and needs.

I use various techniques to treat deep and superficial tissues to prevent muscular pain or soreness.

Remedial Massage helps restore the flexibility of muscle tissue.

Each treatment designed specifically client holistic approach client’s emotional physical needs.

This therapy is great for releasing tension/stress work or lifestyle reducing chronic muscular pain, speeding up recovery of damaged muscle tissue, by increasing blood flow to the effected area and supplying oxygen and nutrients needed for muscle repair. It also assists the body in removing metabolic, lactic acid from the muscle tissue. It’s also an effective way of detoxing the body.

Be sure to drink plenty of water to assist the waste to leave your body!

Remedial Massage Benefits

Clients will feel long and short term benefits of receiving regular remedial massage.

Benefits include: improved circulation, decreased pain, improved sleep, increased joint mobilization.

Therapy sessions can be specifically designed to reduce muscle spasm, scar tissue formation, loosen tight tendons and ligaments and reduce injury.

Some conditions alleviated include

• Stress related conditions, like headaches, migraines, nervous exhaustion, frozen shoulder, and other general aches and pains
• Sports accidental injuries muscular strains or sprains
• Post pregnancy pain
• Post operation stress/pain
• Long term disorders
• Abdominal conditions
• Back pain, shoulder, knee, ankle elbow and hip pain
• Muscular cramping
• Whiplash