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What is Sports Massage
Sports Massage is a dynamic and highly effective form of massage therapy. It is the skilled manipulation of soft tissues for:
- The relief and treatment of muscle soreness and pain
- The maintenance of muscle balance and improved flexibility
- Enhanced rehabilitation from injury
It is a treatment which helps alleviate the stress and tension which builds up in the body’s tissues during physical exercise or general overuse of muscles.
Soft tissues are made up of many individual fibres called tissue cells. When these cells are put under stress, such as overload, emotional, occupational and postural, they are at risk of becoming injured.
When the fibres become injured they are repaired by scar tissue. This can cause adhesions between fibres (referred to by many as knots) impairing the correct functioning of the muscle and eventually leading to muscle imbalance and pain.
These injuries often occur at microscopic level and take some time to develop before pain is felt.
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