Sports Massage Improves Athletic Performance
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Sports Massage is the art of assessing and then treating athletes to reduce training fatigue and pain, speed up training recovery, prevent injury, increase range of motion and uncover movement dysfunctions.
Sports Massage helps to guide massage therapists to assess and treat athletes by understanding the unique demands of their sports. By combining the knowledge of activity specific movements, strength
and flexibility requirements with advanced massage and bodywork tools, elite sports massage therapists can tailor treatment to help athletes achieve all their athletic goals.
Who Could Benefit from Sports Massage?
Sports massage is an extremely beneficial choice for any athlete looking to increase range of motion, recover faster from training and competition, increase functional movement patterns, recuperate from injury and maximize potential.
Whether an elite tennis player, a swimmer who consistently has shoulder pain, a beginner training for their first half marathon or someone just wants to enjoy hiking or gardening with the grandchildren, a great sports massage program can ensure success by helping clients understand their body better, increase mobility and significantly cut down on sports injuries.
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Common Physical Issues That Sports Massage Serves
Being an athlete at any level comes with its risks. Sprains, strains, contusions, twists and repetitive stress injuries are common. Severe aches and pains from training and competition are par for the course. Athletes stress their bodies and injuries are often the result of that stress.
An elite sports massage therapist can help athletes uncover weaknesses and correct that weakness before it becomes an injury, allowing the athlete to train harder and more efficiently and compete effectively.
While a complete list would be quite lengthy, issues that sports massage therapists commonly see are:
Ligament Sprains to the ankle, elbow or low back etc..
Muscle Strains to the shoulder, Quads or calves etc…
Tendonitis (tendon inflammation) in the knee or forearm etc…
Tennis and Golfer's elbow
Shin Splints
Common Sports Massage Techniques You May Hear About
Techniques commonly associated with sports massage as a discipline include Active Release Technique ( ART ), Stability or Motor Control Corrections, Cross Fiber Friction and Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation (PNF) Stretching
Active Release Technique ( ART ) is the gold standard in non-invasive, soft-tissue and nerve treatment, including treatment of strains, sprains, nerve entrapments and other musculoskeletal disorders.
Stability or Motor Control Corrections are corrective exercises designed to help clients to relearn functional movement patterns or effective stabilization of their stabilizing muscles.
Cross Fiber Friction is a technique that effectively breaks up fascial adhesions between muscle, tendon, ligament fibers and scar tissue and helps realign these fibers to regain strength and flexibility.
(PNF) Stretching is an advanced stretching technique which utilizes the reflexes when isometrically contracting muscles.
Sports Massage Reviews for Scott Schwartz
“Scott has by far delivered the best of any sport massage therapists Ive been. I’m a long time runner and have gone for both preventative bodywork and also post race. Best in Portland!”
— Chris S
“I not only saw immediate improvement in my calves but after returning to Scott for a series of treatments, saw a marked improvement in my overall soccer play and recovery times.”
— Cliff M
