adept fitness - sports massage

What is Sports Massage Therapy?

Sports Massage is a form of deep tissue massage aimed at relieving a multitude of forms of muscle tightness ranging from a sore neck through to helping rehabilitate from a specific injury.

Although Sports Massage is predominantly known for helping optimise athletes’ performance by decreasing injury potential and supporting soft tissue healing - it has now become popular for everyone.

Sports Massage helps everyone recover from injuries as a crucial part of their rehabilitation process as well as being a popular way of reducing stress and increasing the client’s function.

Regular Sports Massage sessions will not only aid your recovery but will also allow you to reach and maintain your health and fitness goals with more confidence and awareness.

Adept Fitness will bring everything needed for your treatment including massage couch, oils, towels and rehabilitative exercise equipment.

What are the benefits for YOU?

Physical

Promotes blood flow providing more nutrients to cells in turn helping with growth and repair
Helps with removal of waste products in the body e.g. lactic acid build up during and after hard exercise
Improves client’s flexibility through the manipulation of muscles, bones and fascia
Reduces and helps remodel scar tissue helping to speed up recovery time from injury and prevent re-injury

Physiological

Pain reduction through reduction of excessive muscle tension, stimulating or soothing the nervous system and releasing endophins
Relaxation of muscles through warmth, circulation and stretching of muscles
Reduced stress through delivering a balance to the autonomous nervous system

Psychological

Reduces client’s stress and anxiety
Creates general feeling of wellbeing
Increases clarity of thought


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