Sports Massage
Sports Massage has played a key role in the lives of athletes for recovery, pre-hab and performance enhancement for centuries.
It is used to assist in the management, manipulation and rehabilitation of the body’s soft tissues, including muscles, ligaments and tendons. No matter the cause of your tension or injury, massage can be instrumental in your recovery process.
Sports massage isn't just for athletes and sports people. You may have aches and pains caused by:
- Your work environment or lifestyle
- Being a real human with a job and responsibilities
- Returning to activity after a period of inactivity
- Training for participation in team sports or a specific sporting event
If this is the case, sports massage can help you!
We take the time to truly understand your specific needs and objectives, so that you get the best possible service.
We recognise everyone is unique and our massage therapist will draw on their in-depth knowledge of physiology and anatomy to carry out the most appropriate type of therapy for you.
The benefits of Sports Massage:
Sports Massage therapy can help you in several ways:
- Promote relaxation and stress relief
- Injury Prevention / Reduce risk of injury
- Injury Treatment & pain relief
- Improve recovery time between exercise
- Stimulate blood flow, increasing oxygen into your muscles, facilitating recovery
- Ease Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness (DOMS) discomfort
- Reduce muscle tension
- Improve circulation & lymphatic flow and drainage
- Correct muscle imbalance
- Improve joint mobility
- Improve postural issues
- Improve your sense of wellbeing
- Reduce anxiety and enhance mental wellbeing
- Prepare you for your return to sports participation
Is Sports Massage right for me?
Massage is a great way to assist you staying in or getting back to your peak physical condition. We all have busy lives, and massage can support you getting to where you want to be quicker.
The benefits listed above can help relieve the day to day stresses, strains, postural and overuse problems which anyone can experience from both work and play.
At Restorative Sports Therapies we use sports massage frequently in the treatment of a wide variety of conditions. We base your treatments on your individual needs, along with our assessment, and will work with you to choose the best possible treatment method based on the clinical evidence.
Sports Massage is ideally suited to:
- Athletes of all levels (from casual gym-goers to professionals)
- People training for races, competitions, or physical challenges
- Individuals with physically demanding jobs
- Anyone recovering from sports-related injuries
If you have a question specific to sports massage or any other service please do not hesitate to ask us.
When should I have a Sports Massage?
Sports massage can be used effectively at almost any stage of competition, training & recovery or simply to relieve the everyday stresses of life.
The specific techniques used can be modified to suit the various stages of sports participation, from beginner to pro and everything in-between:
For example:
- Initial Conditioning / Training phase
- Pre, Inter or Post competition / event
- Post Travel
- Injury Prevention
- Injury Recovery
How often should I have a Sports Massage?
What to expect & Prices
All of our therapies include time for a pre-therapy assessment - Both an initial assessment on your first visit, and a follow up assessment on each visit.
Our massage sessions are available in either 30 minute or 1 Hour blocks.
Please note that both blocks include 15 mins for your consultation and assessment, which is included in the price. This means that a 30 min massage session will have a duration of 45 mins, and a 1 hour session will have a duration of 1 hour 15 mins - We are just letting you know to help you manage your time!
Prices:
- 30 Minute Session - £40
- 1 Hour Session - £55