Adult Sports Massage
Our SPECIALTY…..PUTTING IT ALL IN MOTION
Sports massage uses a combination of deep and light modalities and NMT to loosen muscle adhesions and release trigger points (knots) in dysfunctional muscle tissue. The greatest characteristics of our massage technique is our ability to tailor each massage to meet our patient’s specific needs and help relieve their stress, pain, and muscle soreness.
Golfer Relief
60/or 90 minute massage focused on the key muscle groups that golfers use.
Focus on the lower back muscles because the golfer’s body must pivot at the hip. Massage will help to keep ligaments, joints, and muscles fibers in the lower extremities loose, and ready for the work ahead. (IT band, all muscles in the glutes, hamstring, and quad groups)
Cycle Relief
60/ or 90 minute massage focused on key muscle groups that cyclist use.
We start with the gluteus muscles because this muscle group is the key to cyclist performance. Relief happens with slow muscle fiber stretching through all four muscles (gluteus max, min, medius, and piriformis). Together, we do Thai stretches for all lower extremity muscle groups, starting with hamstring, quad, glutes, and the psoas, which is a part of the abdominal group.
This is important because the abdominals along with the pectoralis muscles stay in a contracted state while the cyclists are riding. No worries; we also always treat the neck, back, and shoulders.
Runners Relief
60 minute massage
Runners depend on powerful hip extensors and knee flexors. The low back is also important to runner’s performance. Stretching this muscle and ligaments are very important, so we use simple Thai stretches to start the work before I go into specific muscles of the lower extremities. We use hip rotation techniques to help the hip extensors stay loose and ready for the miles the runners put on their bodies. We work all the gluteus muscles, hamstrings, and quads. I do use my whole body approach so the neck and shoulders get great therapeutic massage as well.
Basketball Relief
90/2 hour massage focused on lower and upper extremities.
Basketball players need a lot of tendon, joint, and ligament work along with muscle NMT. This sport most always creates hyper toxicity in shoulder muscles, so cross fiber work through the rotator muscles of the shoulder brings relief readily. Because of the coordination basketball players need, specific focus on the deep spinal stabilizers and rotators of spinal alignment is key. We do specific low extremity work as well. Deep tissue muscle stripping through hamstrings, quads, gluteus, and calf muscles. We also use our Thai stretching techniques for all our sports massage sessions.
Therapies Include:
- Advanced sports massage for teens and adults
- Structural analysis charting
- Deep tissue massage
- Trigger point massage
- Lymphatic drainage massage
- Sports cupping
- Suction cup – removes muscles from bone, allowing pressure to release from nerve. Blood flows then therapist can kneed the muscle and work out the trigger points
Sport Massage Benefits:
- Muscles prone to injury (muscles crossing two joints)
- Mitochondria (the body’s energy generators)
- Inflammation
- Pain cycle
- ROM
- Flexibility
- Injury prevention/recovery
Soreness after sports massage is typical- because of lactic acid, trigger points, and adhesion’s in muscles groups please follow the home care instructions for best results: Click here
