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How to Give a Sports Massage

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Learn how to give a massage using techniques of sports massage therapy, like PNF stretching, to prevent injury, relieve stress, and raise athletic muscle performance in this free massage video clips.

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Summary: Massage therapy is a practice with a multiplicity of benefits. Whether it’s a quick rubdown or a full-body treatment, the human touch has practical applications for promoting both physical and emotional well-being. The basic idea behind massage is the use of motion, pressure, tension, and vibration on certain areas of the body, localized around muscles or joints in pain or under stress. This allows a release of tension and a return to a homeostatic condition. Therefore, massage is very important for general stress relief, pain management, preventing muscle injury, encouraging physical and emotional healing, or improving circulation.

Sports massage is a particular branch of massage that focuses on relieving skeleton-muscular tension and returning the muscles to a loose, relaxed state. Sports massage techniques provide a number of important benefits to athletes. Since they regularly train their muscles hard for peak performance, and then go out a push their bodies to the limit and beyond, they are prone to constant and chronic injuries. Sports massage helps to prevent some of those injuries, as well as speed up recovery time and relieve extreme muscle cramping and tension.

In this free video guide to sports massage, learn stretching techniques like PNF, or proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation, which help warm up the muscles and prevent injury during a game or performance. Our massage therapist will demonstrate full body sports massage methods you can use to prepare for your next sports match.

About the Expert

Expert: Jean Hurley has experience in many types of massage therapy. She works at Siegels Day Spa in Cottonwood Az. She has been licensed and certified in massage therapy for 10 years and came to Cottonwood from Indiana in 1998. Massage therapy is a passion for her.

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