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Sports massage with TK Active includes a screening questionnaire prior to your fist massage,
and personalised stretches as well as home care advise. It can be done in the comfort of your
own home, in a sports club or at an event. The massage table, use of towels and oils are all
included in the price.
Sports massage is a therapy to help alleviate the stress & tension that builds up in the bodies'
soft tissues during physical activity.
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Where minor injuries & lesions occur due to over exertion/overuse,
massage can break them down quickly & effectively. It can also prevent niggling injuries that get in
the way of
performance and achievement whether you an athlete, keep fitter or once a week jogger.
Sports massage therapy tends to be deeper & more intense using a variety of massage techniques combined with knowledge & advice during treatments brings about optimum performance,
provides injury-free training & helps to minimise post event injuries.
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Tahli has a VTCT level 3 Diploma in sports massage therapy. She is a member of FHT
(Federation of Holistic Therapists), and has full public liability insurance.
Massage has a number of benefits to the physical, physiological, and psychological aspects of an athlete.
Massage will:
- Maintain the body in good condition
- Help prevent injuries and loss of mobility
- Help cure and restore mobility to injured muscle tissue
- Help boost performance
- Extend the overall life of your sporting career
- Help remove waste products from the body e.g. Lactic Acid
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Pumping-
The stroking movements in massage suck fluid through blood vessels and lymph vessels.
By increasing the pressure in front of the stroke, a vacuum is created behind. This is
especially
important in tight or damaged muscle tissue, as a tight muscle will squeeze blood out like a sponge, depriving the tissues of vital nutrients and energy to repair.
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Increased tissue permeability
Deep massage causes the pores in tissue membranes to open, enabling fluids and nutrients to pass through. This helps remove waste products such as lactic acid and encourages muscles to take up oxygen and nutrients, which help them repair quicker.
Stretching
Massage can stretch tissues that could not be stretched in the usual methods. Bundles of muscle fibres are
stretched lengthways
as well as sideways. Massage can also stretch the sheath or fascia that surrounds the muscle, so relaxing any tension or pressure build up.
Break down of scar tissue
Scar tissue is the result of previous injuries or trauma and can affect muscle, tendons or ligaments.
This can lead to inflexible
tissues that are prone to further injury and/or pain.
Tissue Elasticity
Training hard can make tissues tough and inelastic. This is one reason why training hard may not always result in improvements. Massage helps reverse this by stretching the tissues.
Opens micro-circulation
Massage increases blood flow to the tissues, but so does exercise. What massage also does is open or dilate the blood vessels and by stretching them, enables nutrients to pass through more easily.
Pain reduction
Tension and waste products in muscles can often cause pain. Massage helps to reduce this in many ways including releasing the bodies endorphins (happy hormone!).
Relaxation
Muscles relax though heat generated during massage, circulation and stretching. Mechanoreceptors which sense touch, pressure, tissue length and warmth are stimulated causing reflex relaxation.
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Anxiety reduction
Through the effects mentioned above, relaxation is induced and so reduces anxiety levels.
Invigorating
If massage is done with brisk movements such as what would be done prior to an event, this can cause an invigorating feeling and muscles will become stimulated rather than relaxed.
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