Sports Massage or also commonly known as Deep Tissue Massage is focused on reducing tension throughout the body. It also improves circulation, removes toxin and waste that is sitting dormant, promotes recovery and reduces the chances of muscular injury.

Our musculoskeletal system (muscles, ligaments and tendons) can become tense, injured or be holding waste products like lactic acid after activity and need manipulation in order to restore them back to working at full function and become more efficient.

Anyone and everyone can benefit from a sports massage. No matter if you are a seasoned athlete, hard worker or just someone who needs to relax some sore muscles. Sports massage can help prepare us for an event, competition, strenuous work and much more.

So if you ever see sports massage or deep tissue massage offered, they are in fact the same thing. The idea is to get our bodies into a parasympathetic response, i.e “rest & digest”. Our body is able to recover and repair itself in this state which is mainly completed in our sleep as most of the day we cant seem to switch off from our lifestyles. Now add that with little sleep and you become a recipe for injury and discomfort.

There are different variations of sports massage:

- Maintenance massage. A regular sports massage treatment carried out by a therapist which focuses on the individuals requirements for either training maintenance, day to day lifestyle, stress reduction tool and more. It involves a range of techniques to be able to maintain or improve range of motion, promote the
recovery process, target specific muscle groups or areas in which the individual may experience frequent issues with.

- Pre and post event massage. An individual who participates in competition sports can benefit from both pre and post event treatments. Pre event will enable them to warm up and physiologically be ready for the competition. This method of treatment it much shorter than a maintenance massage and wont involve much stretching or soothing techniques but instead compliment their warm up to boost circulation, reduce muscular tension, increase secretion of fluid into the joints and mentally psych them.

- A post event treatment focuses on getting the individual calm and relaxed after an intense event and set the body up into recovery mode by reducing muscular spasms and draining metabolic build up.

- For individuals rehabilitating themselves after an injury can also use sports massage to aid in reducing discomfort and speeding up healing for both acute and chronic injuries.