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Sport and Remedial Massage

Sport and Remdial Massage is normally carried out by a therapist who has completed further education in anatomy and physiology.

This greater knowledge allows the therapist to work on more specific muscles and muscle groups, in such a way as to improve the normal function of the muscle, reduce pain and speed up the healing process.

The term "sport" refers more to the type of treatment rather than the type of person coming in for the treatment! A good majority of sports massage patients have presenting complaints resulting from desk based work and repetitive injury strains from driving or sleeping positions.

More often than not, by the time a patient seeks treatment, the injury has been there for more than few months. As the body is so adaptable, the muscles will shorten and knit together any which way that they can to prevent the injury from happening again. This resulting criss-crossing of muscle fibres can result in the patient suffering pain.

The aim of the treatment is to break down these incorrectly aligned muscles fibres and "persuade" them to a) run the correct way and b) heal.

Depending on the severity and length of time of having had the injury, this treatment may not be the most relaxing of treatments as breaking down the misaligned muscles fibres can be uncomfortable. However, we want the patient to describe this process as a "good" kind of pain, not sore.

Everyone is different and the patient is encouraged to communicate with the therapist as to how comfortable they feel.

Initially, the specific area of discomfort will be treated. As the symptoms improve, a larger area will be worked on. Usually, it is recommended that 2-3 sessions are booked, one week apart, then, the sessions are scheduled with larger gaps in between treatments.