Deep Tissue and Sports Massage

Sports massage is a form of massage specially tailored to treating athletes and sports related injuries such as shin splints and tennis elbow.

Sports massage in isolation, or combined with other treatments such as chiropractic or physiotherapy, has a number of benefits specific for sports performance. This includes increasing flexibility, treating and preventing soft tissue injuries, improving the health of muscle and connective tissue and aiding recovery.

Sports massage therapists use a variety of hands-on manual techniques tailored to the individual patient and their particular complaint.

Sports massage is for any athlete looking for the prevention or treatment of sports related soft tissue injury, improved soft tissue health or improved recovery.

Deep tissue massage is a specific form of massage that works on the deep layers of the muscles and other soft tissues.

Benefits of deep tissue massage include reduced muscle tension and a reduction of both stress and anxiety. Deep Tissue massage has also been demonstrated to be effective in the treatment of a number of pain syndromes.

Deep tissue massage uses a variety of different massage techniques but deep finger pressure using slow, firm strokes is a primary method of treatment.

It is ideal for those looking to reduce muscular tension, relieve stress or anxiety and in certain pain syndromes. For certain conditions such as lower back strains or tension headache deep tissue massage can work very well in combination with chiropractic or physiotherapy treatment.