Sports massage is a no-nonsense massage technique that deals directly with the body's soft tissue. It has developed over the years to deal with the specific conditions that the human body experiences before and after being 'pushed to the max'. It utilises such techniques as MET (muscle energy technique), Soft Tissue Release and NMT (neuromuscular technique).

When injuries to muscle tissue occur the fibres often heal misaligned. Our muscles are covered by a layer connective tissue called fascia. This fascia covers all the individual muscle fibres, the larger bundles of muscles and the whole muscle groups. It is one continuous piece of tissue that never stops growing and covers our whole body. Normally, when covering healthy, moving muscle it is a soft, gel like substance. However, when our muscle movement is restricted, in the case of injury or postural misalignment, tissue fluids cannot reach the areas they need to, to lubricate the fascia. The fascia begins to become hard and scar tissue forms, further trapping toxins such as lactic acid within that specific site. This causes pain and dysfunction as the body tries to remedy the situation, often by setting up a series of structural compensations, which can lead to further pain and problems.

So sports massage is often combined with remedial massage, which uses the same techniques, to assist the healing and rehabilitation of injuries and dysfunction and to facilitate movement.

In this way a sports and remedial massage becomes just as relevant to an office worker, crippled by an unsuitable desk arrangement as it is to an Olympic athlete suffering a torn hamstring!

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