Sports massage and Remedial massage combine the use of Swedish massage with additional more intense techniques, to treat all types of complaints and conditions.

Sports massage  has become one of the most important factors in many people's lives today. People are enjoying the benefits that sports massage can bring, from muscular injury, through to headaches and stress.

Sports massage is recommended, after injury, and for chronically tight muscles, and when a problem just seems to linger. It also is used for the prevention and treatment of sports injuries, and as a pre-event, post event or between event massage.

What does it do?

Sports massage like other forms of massage helps improve the suppleness and flexibility of muscles and joints. It improves lymph and blood circulation and assists body systems in functioning at their optimum level. Sports massage also has more specific benefits:

• Speeds up the healing of damaged or overworked tissue and muscles thus reduces recovery time and allows a sports person to regain their health and performance
• pre - event massage stimulates the body ( in particular the muscle groups that are most important to that event ) and mind of the athlete, increase fitness capabilities and performance potential
• prevents future injury by identifying and treating current muscle weakness, tiredness and problem areas
• Post - event massage helps clear out waste and toxins e.g.; lactic acid from muscles, reducing stiffness and enabling a faster recovery time, than post - event rest alone
• massage helps break up adhesions that can develop between the fascia of different muscles, thus improving muscle suppleness and mobility
• enables muscles and joints to heal faster after injury
• improves flexibility
• peak performance can be reached faster, once reached, sustained over longer periods

So you don't have to be a sports person to benefit from sports massage and remedial massage, I have treated people with most chronic problems such as backache, can be treated by remedial massage extremely effectively.

Sports massage and remedial massage uses a full range of massage techniques to treat:

• Back ache
• hip problems
• sore, neck and shoulders
• knee and ankle problems
• all chronic muscular aches and pains