1. Sports and Exercising
People who regularly push their bodies to the limit in sports such as cycling, dancing, tennis, swimming and other aerobic type activities can greatly benefit from using massage as an injury rehab program. It helps us to recover from injury and other muscular type problems much faster. Exercising regularly helps to promote energy, good health and enhances a sense of well being. It also helps to relieve stress and quite possibly combats depression. The physical attributes of exercising are the increased muscle strength, better respiratory and heart functioning with greater flexibility, which occurs as your body gradually gets used to the increased demands regular exercise puts on it and the muscles utilized in performing that activity.
2. Types of Massage
Swedish massage is the most common type of massage in sports and used in conditioning programs and may focus on trigger point therapy, deep tissue massage and acupressure. This technique uses applications which are muscle specific and use vibration and pressure techniques. Compression massage is a type of compression therapy into the muscles to create a softening type of muscular effect and is used most commonly as a warm up for deep massage. Friction massage stretches those muscles in the large muscle group and can be applied to reduce muscular type bonds called adhesions and helps to repair and create a strong muscle.
3. Sports Massage and the Rehab Benefits
Having a regular program of sports massage can help to decrease the chance of having an injury by promoting the proper stretching and preparation, improve your muscles range of motion for improved performance, can decrease the recovery time needed between physical workouts and increase blood flow by maximizing the supply of oxygen and nutrients to the muscles.
4. Rehabilitation Massage
Soft tissue massage, which can be deep massage, are techniques that are used by sports massage therapists are quite effective in the management of both acute and chronic injuries and are used in tandem with other appropriate medical care when needed for a better outcome. They can be used prior to the activity, during and after, as well for curative and restorative qualities, and are one of the best pain reduction strategies.
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