Sports Massage & Stretching
This therapy focuses on the muscle groups associated with a particular sport. Sports Therapy is tailored to the needs of the individual athlete. The therapist’s intention is to help an athlete enhance performance or to recover from injury. Sports Massage Therapy will often include many of the massage therapy techniques previously listed in order to achieve the optimal performance of the athlete. Important stretching techniques will be utilized and suggested to the athlete for post-massage enhancement. Sports Massage takes into consideration what sport is played, to what intensity or level of competition, and psychological stress. At Tapestry Massage we are available for pre/post/inter-event massage. The Sports Massage therapist at Tapestry Massage has received additional training and education for a deeper level of understanding in the dynamics of Sports Massage. Additional techniques which can be used with sports massage include:
- Cryotherapy/Contrast Application
The utilization of warm compresses and/or ice increases local blood flow to the affected area, reduces acute inflammation, stimulates circulation, and decreases tissue damage.
- Kinesio Taping
Developed in the 1970’s by SRS Keno Kase, D.C., Tatsuyuki Hashimoto, Ph.D., and Tomoki Okane, this technique uses rehabilitative tape that corrects muscle function. You may have seen this tape being used by some of the 2008 Summer Olympics athletes such as Kerri Walsh, Olympic Beach Volleyball Gold Medalist. Tape is effective for reconditioning abnormal muscle tension, strengthening a weakened muscle and improving blood and lymph circulation. Tape will eliminate the tissue fluid or bleeding beneath the skin by moving the muscle. Proper training is needed to apply the tape correctly.
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