Sports Therapy & Remedial Massage

 

Remedial Massage

Deep tissue massage is combined with techniques (such as myofascial release, neuromuscular techniques, trigger point therapy and Hyperon-X) and perhaps strengthening exercise, to treat pain and restore a fuller range of motion. The ‘hands on’ work of massage helps to identify the various defects in muscles, tendons and ligaments and determine whether the problem is a sprain, tear, inflammation, malalingment etc. The appropriate treatment is thereafter employed.

Knowledge of anatomy and physiology along with a persevering attitude usually means “One who searches, finds”!

Sports Therapy

Sports massage is essentially remedial massage. The difference is mostly in the rehabilitation of various injuries or strengthening of weak or imbalanced muscles that will be specific to the sport undertaken.

Regular sports massage can identify and monitor troublesome muscles before chronic problems develop and sometimes even before the athlete has noticed a problem. It is therefore used extensively by athletes and serious sportspeople for injury prevention purposes. If injury has already occurred then rehabilitation followed by treatment and implementation of injury prevention protocols will be utilised.

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Therapeutic Massage & Indian Head Massage

This is the ‘feel good’ stuff. Gentle, soothing and relaxing. Blended aromatherapy oils can be used if desired. This treatment can be useful when there is a need for some emotional support but its additional benefits to the body should not be under-estimated. The effects of therapeutic and head massage are considered to be mechanical, neural, chemical and physiological. They are all relevant and, indeed, inter-relate with each other and with underlying emotional factors.

Does It Hurt?

Massage can elicit pain or discomfort of variable intensity or sharpness and can be due to several factors e.g. oedema, nodules (some become chronic and develop into trigger points), lymph nodes that are chronically congested, cellulite tissue that contains hard fibrotic fibres. Pain due to a local malfunction tends to increase considerably on palpation of the tissues, even with minimal pressure, whereas pain that is referred tends to increase only in proportion to the pressure applied.

People prefer different levels of pressure and have differing pain thresholds (although I’ve yet to meet someone who says “I have a low pain threshold”!), so communicate with the therapist and it can be adjusted to suit you.

After deep massage it is not unusual or of concern that there is some pain for a couple of days after treatment.This is the body’s own natural healing process taking place.

The Dorn Method

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