Recovery and care

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What is a sports massage?

Sports massage involves the maneuvering of soft tissue to benefit a person engaged in physically intense activity. Soft tissue includes skin, muscles, tendons, ligaments and fascia.
Sports massage is designed to help in sorting issues and imbalances in soft tissue that are caused by tedious and repetitive physical activity and pain. A sports massage before and after an exercise also proves to be effective and enhance performance, aid recovery and prevent injury.
Sports massage has many beneficial impacts on athletes. Sports massage is used by elite athletes before performance, post performance, during training, and for rehabilitation. Nike, Theragun, Dare2B, Casall, and Gymstick are the leading brands that offer sport massage creams and products.

Types of sports massage

There are various different movements and techniques which are used in sports massage by experts. Some of these techniques include;

• Swedish Style Massage
• Effleurage
• Petrissage
• Compression
• Friction
• Tapotement
• Vibration
• Gliding
• Stretching
• Percussion, And Trigger Points.

Benefits of sports massage

You can achieve the following benefits of sports massage;

• Increased joint range of motion ROM
• Decreased chance of injury
• Increased flexibility
• More relaxed nerves
• Decreased muscle spasms
• Better sleep
• Increased blood flow
• Decreased recovery time between workouts
• Decreased muscle tension