Athletes are often confused about
the best time to get body work. Athletes should get a tough, sports massage three
days before any activity. However, this one should be focused on stretching and
isometric approaches, which concentrate on breathing and relaxing. After the
game, you must make sure it’s not vigorous. It should be more of a relaxing
massage to calm your tight muscles. If you are in pain, a few days of rest and
stretching before a sports massage is best.
Sports massage takes place in
between training sessions and the aim is to work on specific elements and
tissues which have become shortened, tight, and painful. The idea is to loosen
off tightness within soft tissues so as to improve performance and prevent injury.
A variety of techniques in sports massage can be used. This would range from
deep tissue, trigger point, to mobilization of joints for stretching and
strengthening. Heavily exercised muscles may also lose their capacity to relax.
This causes chronically tight muscles, and flexibility loss. Lack of
flexibility is often linked to muscle soreness, and predisposes athletes to
injuries especially muscle pulls and tears. Blood flow through tight muscles is
poor, which also causes pain. A regular sports massage therapy is very
effective in combating these effects of heavy exercised muscles.
On your first visit expect to give
a full medical history as well as provide an account of how you have injured
yourself and/or what you hope to gain from the visit. This should be followed
by an examination, usually involving a basic postural analysis as well as
active a passive examination. This will help the therapist get to the bottom of
the culprit tissues as well as any predisposing factors to problems you
encounter. The overall picture will help formulate a specific sports massage
treatment plan and based on this soft tissue techniques will be used to achieve
the desired goal.
Summing up, sports massage should
be applied before and after athletic events, with many “maintenance” sessions
in between meets or competitions. Integrated into a weekly training regimen,
athletes may avoid pain, will be able to relax, and revitalize muscles, and
feel calmer and more focused before and after events.
Massage Envy Lakeland
3615 South Florida Ave. Unit 56,
Lakeland, FL 33803
863-646-3689
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