Sports massage has become common place in the treatment of anyone needing remedial muscle (soft tissue) work, irrespective of the cause of the injury, musculature problem, age, level of fitness or occupation.
The aim of Sports Massage Therapy is to help alleviate the stress and tension which builds up in the body’s soft tissues during physical activity. Primarily, it can help to prevent those niggling injuries that so often get in the way of performance and achievement whether you are an athlete, committed keep-fitter or a once a week fitness class attender.
This treatment is not just for the sports person and sports massage can be extremely beneficial to those with physically demanding jobs. However, it is also beneficial to those individuals who may have not quite so obvious reasons for their injuries as occupational, emotional and postural stress may also produce problems with many similar characteristics to sports injuries. Furthermore, sports massage therapists now work with the elderly and disabled as well as alongside physiotherapy, osteopathy or chiropractic in rehabilitative therapy in the post-surgical field.