Sports Massage {London}{Birmingham}{Croydon}

Sports massage is dedicated for people doing sports on a regular basis. Its techniques are similar to the ones in classical massage, but they are more energetic and intense.

How Sports Massage in {London}{Birmingham}{Croydon} works?

The aim of the massage is to prevent pathological changes which might occur due to prolonged strain on muscles and joints. Sports massage may serve the following functions:

• warming up (prepares for training or competition)
• regenerating (helping the body to recover after a major effort)
• medical (facilitates injury treatment)

Benefits which sports massage can bring for athletes are:

• increasing range of motion and muscle flexibility, so that it becomes easier for an athlete to build physical performance
• improving blood circulation and warming up the massaged area
• better oxygenation and tissue metabolism, faster exchange of nutrients between blood and cells
• faster recovery after a sports injury
• shorter regeneration time between training sessions, removing toxins from the body and restoring muscles to their full performance
• improving the functioning of the nervous system; energizing or relaxing the patient – depending on the training cycle
• preventing and treating sport injuries