Sports massage is used to enhance performance, reduce injury, and speed recovery.  Keeping the body in its best condition provides a host of general health benefits as well.  Half-hour and forty-five-minutes sessions are quite often adequate to address sports-related concerns, making massage a very affordable addition to your training arsenal.

Runners

Keeping knees, hips, and ankles balanced in gravity

reduces joint wear and tear and keeps the gait smooth and long.

 

Racquet Sports

Fast, lateral movements can shock the body

and using the body dominately one-sided creates imbalances;

cross-training and rebalancing are fundamental for function.

 

Golfers

Imbalance of  left/right musculature creates negative patterns.

Keep your swing unwound with massage.

You’ll breathe better, stand taller,

and place the golfball more accurately.

 

Weight Lifters

Creating dense musculature through resistance is

health-building, and a wonderful adjuct to training for

any sport. . .but are you flexible?  Massage can help by

reminding muscles to remain long and sleek, and

flushing away the toxins that are built up through exertion.

 

Cycling

Hours in the saddle?  Aches and pains along the spine

and the large thigh muscles and calves, are crying for help after

a long, hard ride.  Put the spring back in your spin by

giving your body the rebalancing that it needs after exertion.

 

Kayakers and Boaters

Upper body working too hard and one-sided?

Great strain is put on the arms and torso by struggling

against the unpredictable forces of water.  Stay unwound

and injury free by routinely rebalancing your muscles. 

 

Dancers

Lots of pounding creates compression.

Unlock shortened muscle and open joint spaces

with massage.  You’ll feel lighter and jump higher.

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OVERALL:

Consider massage as important as the tools and equipment that you use to enjoy your sport.  In the end, it’s not the great shoes, perfect club, or new saddle that defines your experience. . .it’s your body. . .your most important piece of equipment. . .

and the only one you’ll have for a lifetime.

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