Therapeutic / Medical Massage: Each session is individually adapted and specifically forwarded to resolve conditions diagnosed by a medical practitioner. Various advanced types of bodywork and massage are used, focusing on the specific trouble spots of the body. Conditions that is treatable include: Shin Splints, Frozen Shoulder, Muscle strains, Sciatica, Cts, Tension Headaches and Migraines and many more.
Sports Massage Therapy: Designed for highly active folks who engage in athletics. Playing sports is harsh for the body and can often bring about injuries in both short and long term. Sports Massage enhances performance and prolongs a sports career by helping prevent injury, reduce pain and swelling , increasing flexibility and improving recovery rates. It incorporated massage, active and passive stretching, strengthening exercises and taping of problematic tissues.
Thorough Sports Massage involves certain properties of stretching at the same time. Conventional stretching is important for athletes since it elongates the muscle lengthwise, however sports massage increase a muscle’s flexibility much more stretching the muscle fibers lengthwise which can be especially important to larger force producing groups of muscles including the Quads, Hamstrings and Glutes. Sports massage techniques will result in the stretching of the sheath and the fascia which connects to muscle all around and not just at the ends, reducing tension and pressure develop.
Injury Recovery
Sports massage is essential to athletes performance as well and recovery from injury. Common injuries that athletes encounter include sprains, strains and muscles tears. A your body’s reaction to these injuries is to create scar tissue with the injury site that will reduce motion while allowing it to heal with increased blood flow (swelling). After the initial stages of these injuries when swelling is finished, scar tissue still remains at the same time and the decrease flexibility which leaves that muscle to a higher chance of re-injury at that site. Sports massage incorporated with a stretching protocol will stop working and reduce scar tissue while increase flexibility, and muscle elongation. Research from the America Sports Orthopedic Medical journal states which a torn hamstring features a 70 % reaccurence of re-injury.
Massage increases local the flow of blood creating hyperemia which is indicated by the reddening of the outer tissues or even more blood flow to a specific area.
-Massage is well documented as a technique which reduces swelling aka edema uptake. The consequence of the massage is facilitation with the lymphatic system.
-Reduction in pain via massage is often a well reckognized and documented benefit of massage . Massage is recognized as a pain relieving modality and accomplishes this via Gate Theory of pain. Pain relief is available from through improvement of flexibility, lowering of muscle spasms and trigger points which indirectly slow up the stimmulation of pain through nerves. Cllinical research has proven that massage reduces muscle pain after strenuos activity also called DOMS.
Increase nutrient and blood flow due to the tissue manipulation increasing blood flow throughout blood vessels and lymph vessels. This is accomplished as a result of increased flow pressure ahead of the specific stroke techniques applied creating a void, causing a suction effect directly behind the massage stroke resulting a rush of blood flow to fill that void. With that flow of blood comes newly oxygenated and nutrient/energy filled blood along with the removal of metabolic wastes resulting in the optimal environment for muscle performance involving flexibility, strength, neural activation, stamina and overall performance.
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