Massage has a number of benefits both physical, physiological and psychological.
Sports massage can help maintain the body in generally better condition, prevent injuries and loss of mobility, cure and restore mobility to injured muscle tissue, boost performance and extend the overall life of your sporting career.
Reduces Muscle Soreness - Some of the reasons you get soreness from exercise can be micro tears, adhesion's, lack of nutrients, nerve irritation and impingement and build up of waste products.
Stretching - Massage can stretch tissues that could not be stretched in the usual methods. Bundles of muscle fibres are stretched lengthwise as well as sideways. Massage can also stretch the sheath or fascia that surrounds the muscle, so releasing any tension or pressure build up.
Improves circulation- So nutrient and oxygen is more available to the muscles.
Improve tissue elasticity - Hard training can make tissues hard and inflexible. This is one reason why hard training may not result in improvements. Massage helps reverse this by stretching the tissues and increasing their length.
Stimulates Lymphatic systems- This facilitates the removal of toxins and other metabolic waste products.
Opens micro-circulation - Massage does increase blood flow to tissues, but so does exercise. What massage also does is open or dilate the blood vessels and by stretching them this enables nutrients to pass through more easily.



