Massage therapy is one of the most commonly used methods to increase recovery from sports based pain and injury. By addressing the restrictions in muscles that have developed as a result of repetitive motions or acute injury, sports massage improves range of motion in joints, lengthens tight muscles, and reduces pain.
During any sport, muscle fibers are working hard to make you run faster, lift more weight or jump higher. When a muscle is used strenuously, a small amount of damage occurs in the fibers, only to repair as you rest after the activity finishes.
When muscles are under the same stress over and over, those muscles don’t get a chance to recover and can slowly start to develop pain as the damage accumulates.
As a way to make your body stop using those muscles, your body protects itself by tightening up the muscles around it and prevent movement. Unfortunately, as sports people, we often need to train or compete again too soon, and so we start to develop muscle imbalances.
Sports massage is used to prevent those muscles tightening up and increase range of motion to prevent muscle imbalance, but also to improve blood flow to the healing muscles in the body. Remedial massage and sports massage use similar techniques to treat and prevent muscle tightness and injury.
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Remedial massage and sports massage use similar techniques to treat and prevent muscle tightness and injury.
Remedial massage is a broader term encompassing soft tissue techniques used by those who have completed a Diploma of Remedial Massage, and registered practitioner through Massage and Myotherapy Australia ( https://www.massagemyotherapy.com.au/Home or another accreditation body.
A remedial massage therapist like those at Axiom will be able to provide health fund rebates through the HICAPS system.
Remedial massage will use techniques such as trigger point therapy, myofascial release, PNF stretching and deep tissue massage to resolve muscle tightness that has developed in the body.
Sports massage often employs the same techniques as remedial massage but is tailored to sportspeople and athletes.
Sports massage requires an increased knowledge of the sport or activity, and the session will be planned in accordance with training and competition schedules to ensure the client is able to train and compete at their best. Sports massage is a tool often used by athletes to increase recovery from training and lower the rate of injury