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Benefits of sports massage 1
Provides a circulatory effect of both blood and lymph helping to maintain muscles and soft tissue in an optimum state of nutrition
Benefit of sports massage 2
Reduces hypertonicity of the muscle creating improved tone as well as overall muscle balance
Benefit of sports massage 3
Enables the athlete to recover more rapidly from injury and more complex thus reducing chronic problems and further injuries
benefit of sports massage 4
Ice massage reduces inflammation and the extent of cellular and tissue damage caused by traumatic injury and accompanying hypoxia and edema. It reduces pain.
Provides beneficial circulatory effect and enhances the effect produced by massage on the soft tissue when the condition is chronic
Benefit of sports massage 5
Cross fibers massage effectively reduces adhesions and verifying degrees of scar tissue formation in the soft tissues.
Allows true freeing of tissues, reestablish full function of a muscle in contraction and elongation, promotion muscle balance and range of motion
Benefit of sports massage 6
Reduces cramping and spasms, voluntary and involuntary splitting thus promoting complete recovery and improved overall muscle balance
Benefit of sports massage 7
Helps to enhance increased body awareness thus assisting to athlete in balanced body awareness and injury prevention