Injury Prevention With Sports Massage

Massages and Regular Exercises

If you’re a runner or regularly participate in strenuous exercise that involves the possibility of straining yourself or causing injury, then sports massages can help. A massage will reduce the soreness, stiffness and help to relax your muscles.

By having your muscles manipulated your pain will be relieved and your recovery time sped up. The more you train and the more your muscles are manipulated, your body will learn to adapt to the conditions meaning there’s less likelihood of the injury occurring again.

How Do Sports Massages Help Prevent Injuries?

Reduce Muscle Stiffness and Soreness

If you’ve previously carried out a particular type of exercise and have injured yourself, then it’s possible that the damage caused might still be there. Although touch is usually a good indicator of pain it can also be used to help speed up your recovery time or prevent muscles from being prone to damage. Having a massage carried out can help to increase the blood circulation, which in turn sends oxygen and nutrients to the damaged muscles helping them to recover.

The manual pressure of muscle manipulation helps to stimulate he arteriolar pressure and increase the muscles temperature. The benefits of this mean the substances the blood and tissue cells, can promote the metabolism and assist the body during its recovery time after exercise. Massage can also assist in breaking down any existing scar tissue that might cause you pain or stiffness.

Shorter Recovery Time After Exercise

Most soreness relating to the muscles is caused by waste products in the body such as lactic acid and carbonic acid that accumulate in the muscle tissue after exercise. By using muscle manipulation to increase circulation of the lymph flow, the build of these acids can be reduced.

Even though it might feel like we’re pushing our body to be better, when you overwork the body during exercise it can traumatise and overwork the joints and surrounding tissue in the body. This causes muscles and joints to stiffen up. Massage can improve the range of motion your muscles are capable of handling, reducing the muscle tension when exercising.

Improved Posture

During a massage your muscles are stretched, which helps to loosen short muscles giving them an increased range of motion. If you have weak or flaccid muscles then these can also be stimulated and improved motion and strength given to them.

Massages are known for helping to rebalance the muscles in your body, which in turn can create an overall better body posture. Having a good posture and stance encourages the more efficient movement of each part of your body. This can prevent and reduce the chance of posture related injuries from occurring.

Pain Relief

When you’re training for a big sporting event such as a marathon or sports match, then it’s likely that your body will start to feel the strain of the work you’ve been doing. The slightest twinge or pain can lead to your body spasms and cramping, which could ruin the main event of what you’ve been training for.

Prevention is better than coping with pain and then dealing with the consequences afterwards. That’s why regular sports massages are always recommended when you’re undertaking regular training for a big event. This can help your body’s muscles to stretch making them more capable of handling the stress and pressure that big sporting events can put on your body.