Details about therapies
Sports Massage. Sports Therapy. Recovery Massage. Deep Tissue Therapeutic Massage.
Sports Massage
We all agree that massage therapies are great. Being massaged correctly can ease sore muscles and make you feel relaxed. Massage therapies, particularly sport massage, has extensive benefits that cover the physical, physiological and psychological needs of our bodies. This is beneficial for everyone, whether you are an athlete or just someone who routinely exercises. Recovery is an important part of your workout routine. Recovery helps in rebuilding muscles that have been broken down during exercise. Sports massage can control how much pain you feel. It can have an impact on how you move.
Benefits of Sports Massage
Whether you like to hike, run or swim, commute by walking or cycling, have a physical job, are a trained athlete or exerciser, sports massage offers significant benefits and improvements that can help you to do these activities.
Increase Performance, Prevents Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness
Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness is the pain you get if you exert more heavily than usual or after trying a new form of exercise.
You’ll feel the pain 12-24 hours after the exercise. So, don’t worry if you feel pain and soreness in your body the next day. With DOMS, you’re unable to move the muscle in the usual way, which makes you feel very stiff.
Sports massage prevents DOMS by encouraging lymph and blood flow through the body and preventing muscle fatigue. A study shows that soreness is lower at all points of time with a massage. With sports massage, you can recover faster and resume with normal strength.
Reduces Pain
Inflammation in your body causes pain. Sports massage is a wonderful pain management technique. It increases blood flow and reduces the inflammation that causes pain.
Chronic pain leads to a build-up of muscle tension. Sports massage can loosen the tight muscle and lift off muscle tension.
While doing intense physical activities, muscle tension builds up in the body's soft tissues. Even minor lesions and injuries from overexertion can result in significant pain, which can impact your performance.
All athletes should always get a sports massage. It prepares them for their best performance. Sports massage reduces pain and chances of injury that can limit their performance. It reduces fatigue and relieves muscle tension and swelling.
Stress Management
Sports massage therapy is very useful to manage stress. During a sports massage, the body releases endorphins. Endorphins are released by two points of the brain - hypothalamus and pituitary gland.
These points are the body's natural pain reliever. When endorphins are released, it provides pain relief, helps to decrease anxiety and improves mood.
Removes Lactic Acid from Muscles
When you overexert, you’ll struggle to breathe. That’s because your busy muscles don’t get more oxygen. This struggle produces lactic acid in the body.
When lactic acid is produced, you’ll feel a burning sensation as you’re overexerting. You feel like stopping and your body forces you into recovery mode. A study suggests that sports massage can facilitate the removal of lactic acid.
A massage increases lymphatic fluid flow in the body, which removes waste from cells. This means you can recover quickly after a rough exercise session.
Clearer Mind
Sports massage can put you in a meditative state and can benefit you psychologically. The effects it brings to your mind and body are restorative, calming and clearing.
When you get a massage, your body and mind are in a meditative state. This helps you to sort through the clutter and get focussed. An athlete with a focussed and relaxed mind can become highly accomplished in any given sport. It will help an athlete to perform better.
A Boost to Overall Health
One of the best benefits of sports massage is it can boost your overall health too. There is an association between post-exercise massage and improvement to the immune system.
A balanced immune system helps you to ward off illness and disease. A few days out of practice because of a cold and cough can give rivals an edge. A Spanish study states that there is a possibility that sports massage can have immunological effects.
Increases Flexibility
As an athlete or an exerciser, you have to do your best. However, rigorous training takes a toll on your muscles. Overtraining and strenuous training can cause muscle rigidity.
Sports massage helps in relaxing your tense muscles and increases flexibility. Athletes can get a sports massage before a competition to relax their muscles, and improve flexibility and performance.
Conclusion
The significance of sports massage goes beyond soothing your muscles. It should be highly valued because of its benefits. Every individual and not just athletes should consider getting sports massages a regular part of their routine.
Sports massage combined with the right diet and training schedule can help athletes reach the next level of performance. Make sure to go to a massage therapist who can also show you self-maintenance techniques to improve your endurance.
If you want to ease your tense and sore muscles after a workout and just relax, a sports massage can be valuable for you.
Sports Therapy
In this therapy I combine Sports Massage with Osteopathic Articulation, Medical Acupuncture, Myofascial release and Raynor Massage tailored as per the patient’s needs and requirements in order to treat musculoskeletal soft-tissue injuries and improve performance.
Osteopathic articulation
With Osteopathic articulation the therapist aims to detect, treat, and prevent muscular problems.
The treatments are based upon the principles of wellbeing with an emphasis on people’s bones, joints, muscles, and connective tissue functioning.
Osteopath Articulation use physical manipulation, stretching, to help in facilitating:
- Mobility of joints;
- Muscle tension relief;
- Blood flow in tissues.
Benefits
There are many benefits of Osteopathic Articulation techniques such as:
- Decreasing tension in the body, reducing pain;
- Alleviating stiffness in joint and muscle pain;
- Aiding the health and stability of the joint;
- Boosting blood circulation;
- Improving quality and quantity of motion;
- Assist in the removal of metabolic waste products.
Medical Acupuncture
This is a traditional Chinese practice that involves insertion of very thin needles into the skin at strategic points of your body. It’s commonly used to treat pain; it also helps improve overall wellness, stress, and more.
Medical Acupuncture uses it as a means of medical diagnosis and lays emphasis on the concept of trigger points. Involves the insertion of dry needles into trigger points to create a heeling response in the body by creating a local inflammatory response to help in the healing process of the surrounding tissues.
It plays a crucial role in stimulating the sensory nerves under your skin and in the muscles. This helps in producing pain-alleviating endorphins that provide pain relief and stress management
Acupuncture is often explained as a technique to balance the flow of energy through one’s body. It is said that a life force or chi flows through the pathways in your body. When needles are inserted in the specific points along these meridians at the specific points, this helps in your energy flow to rebalance.
From small medical problems to major injuries, this method helps in providing long-lasting relief from pain and stimulates the nerves, muscles, and connective tissues.
How will you feel after the treatment
After a treatment, some feel relaxed, meanwhile others feel energized and proactive. However, not everybody’s body will respond to medical acupuncture in the same way, usually you will fill light pain in the point of the needle insertion.
Benefits of Medical Acupuncture:
- Sedate trigger points and the pain they cause;
- Creating a heeling response in the body;
- Improve overall wellness;
- Stress management.
- Creating a heeling response in the body;
- Improve overall wellness;
- Stress management.
Myofascial Release
Myofascial Release is a type of physical therapy that helps in treating myofascial pain syndrome; the therapist is using a soft tissue mobilization focusing on the fascial component of dysfunction.
This syndrome is a chronic pain disorder that comes into existence due to sensitivity or tightness in the myofascial tissues of your body. These tissues provide support to all the muscles of your body.
This origin of this pain occurs in some specific points called the ‘trigger points’. Myofascial Release aims to focus on reducing the pain of a person by easing the tension amidst the tension points.
Benefits of this treatment:
- Enhance Blood Flow. Myofascial release can boost vascular function. This will further help in getting rid of knots and tension in the fascia which may be acting as a restriction for the fluids to flow through the area by boosting muscles and connective tissues.
- Reducing soreness. The treatment helps in better circulation to your muscles and connective tissues which reduce the soreness of muscles. This helps those who are very physically active, like athletes and fitness enthusiasts.
- Lymph Movement. Your immune system fights infections in the body to keep you healthy. The Lymph system plays a crucial role in stimulating pressure that helps in movement of the fluids. Myofascial release boosts the flow of your lymph to your heart.
Myofascial Release helps in eliminating pain and tension and restores motion in your body. With the help of a myofascial release, the body achieves a better physical and energetic balance.
- Reducing soreness. The treatment helps in better circulation to your muscles and connective tissues which reduce the soreness of muscles. This helps those who are very physically active, like athletes and fitness enthusiasts.
- Lymph Movement. Your immune system fights infections in the body to keep you healthy. The Lymph system plays a crucial role in stimulating pressure that helps in movement of the fluids. Myofascial release boosts the flow of your lymph to your heart.
Myofascial Release helps in eliminating pain and tension and restores motion in your body. With the help of a myofascial release, the body achieves a better physical and energetic balance.
Ultrasound treatment
Ultrasound treatment, also known as therapeutic ultrasound, is a medical therapy that uses high-frequency sound waves to treat various conditions. It is commonly used in physical therapy and rehabilitation to promote tissue healing, reduce pain, and improve mobility. Here’s how it works and what it’s used for:
How It Works
1. Sound Waves: Ultrasound devices emit sound waves at frequencies higher than human hearing (typically 1-3 MHz). These sound waves penetrate deep into tissues.
2. Heat Generation: The sound waves cause vibration in the tissues, producing heat. This heat can increase blood flow to the area, improve flexibility, and promote healing.
3. Mechanical Effects: Even in non-thermal treatments (where no noticeable heat is produced), the mechanical energy can still stimulate cellular processes, helping tissue repair.
2. Heat Generation: The sound waves cause vibration in the tissues, producing heat. This heat can increase blood flow to the area, improve flexibility, and promote healing.
3. Mechanical Effects: Even in non-thermal treatments (where no noticeable heat is produced), the mechanical energy can still stimulate cellular processes, helping tissue repair.
Ultrasound treatment offers several benefits, especially in the context of physical therapy, rehabilitation, and pain management. Here’s a breakdown of the key benefits:
1. Pain Relief
• Reduction of Muscle and Joint Pain: Ultrasound therapy is effective in relieving pain associated with muscle strains, sprains, arthritis, and other joint issues. The heat and mechanical vibrations produced help to reduce discomfort.
• Soothing Chronic Pain: People with chronic conditions like osteoarthritis or lower back pain often benefit from reduced pain and increased mobility.
• Soothing Chronic Pain: People with chronic conditions like osteoarthritis or lower back pain often benefit from reduced pain and increased mobility.
2. Accelerated Healing
• Improved Circulation: The heat generated by ultrasound increases blood flow to the affected area, delivering oxygen and nutrients to promote faster tissue repair.
• Cellular Repair: Ultrasound stimulates cell activity and protein synthesis, which can accelerate the healing process of soft tissues like tendons, ligaments, and muscles.
• Cellular Repair: Ultrasound stimulates cell activity and protein synthesis, which can accelerate the healing process of soft tissues like tendons, ligaments, and muscles.
3. Reduced Inflammation
• Decreasing Swelling: Ultrasound can reduce inflammation in conditions like tendonitis, bursitis, and other soft tissue injuries by improving lymphatic drainage.
• Post-Surgical Recovery: It helps control swelling and discomfort, promoting faster recovery after surgery.
• Post-Surgical Recovery: It helps control swelling and discomfort, promoting faster recovery after surgery.
4. Improved Flexibility and Range of Motion
• Breaking Down Scar Tissue: Ultrasound therapy helps to break down scar tissue and adhesions, which can restrict mobility after an injury or surgery.
• Relaxation of Muscles: It reduces muscle tension and spasms, improving flexibility and allowing for a better range of motion in joints and muscles.
• Relaxation of Muscles: It reduces muscle tension and spasms, improving flexibility and allowing for a better range of motion in joints and muscles.
5. Non-Invasive and Safe
• No Surgery or Drugs: Therapeutic ultrasound is a non-invasive procedure that doesn’t involve surgery or medication, making it a safe option for many people.
• Minimal Side Effects: When performed by a trained professional, ultrasound therapy has very few side effects and is generally considered safe.
• Minimal Side Effects: When performed by a trained professional, ultrasound therapy has very few side effects and is generally considered safe.
6. Soft Tissue Injuries
• Tendon and Ligament Repair: Ultrasound is often used to treat soft tissue injuries like sprains, strains, and ligament tears, helping to reduce healing time.
• Wound Healing: It can also be used to promote the healing of chronic wounds, especially in combination with other treatments.
• Wound Healing: It can also be used to promote the healing of chronic wounds, especially in combination with other treatments.
7. Scar Reduction
• Minimizes Scar Tissue Formation: Ultrasound therapy can help prevent or reduce the formation of scar tissue, which may limit function or cause discomfort after injuries.
Deep Tissue Therapeutic Massage
Deep Tissue Therapeutic Massage uses techniques gained from traditional Chinese Medicine, Hawaiian Medicine and Reflexology to find any residual tightness or blockage in the body and eliminate it.
This form of massage covers not just the muscles but also the energy systems of the body, as some of the residual tension in the body can be from emotional or stress related reasons.
This technique it’s focusing more on important parts of the body that are often neglected by traditional massage therapists, such as sacrum, the hips and the feet, hands and head.
Recovery Massage
It’s a more gentle form of massage as we are using more longs movements, medium pressure combine with stretch massage therapy and lymphatic drainage to bust your immune system, prevents Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness and removes Lactic Acid from muscles.
It is usually used for athletes to recover quickly after an event or intense training session.
Lymphatic Drainage it’s an advance therapy in which the therapist use specialized and gentle rhythmic pumping techniques to move the skin in the direction of the lymph flow.
Benefits of Lymphatic Drainage:
-Eliminate metabolic waste and toxins;
-Recover from exercise faster;
-Improve transport of nutrients to cells;
-Clear blockages;
-Has calming effect on the nervous system and help relieve stress and anxiety.
-Recover from exercise faster;
-Improve transport of nutrients to cells;
-Clear blockages;
-Has calming effect on the nervous system and help relieve stress and anxiety.
