How to Give a Lower Body Sports Massage

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Learn how to give a lower body sports massage using physical therapy techniques to prevent injury, & raise athletic muscle performance - free massage therapy videos.

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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 skeleto-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 therapy, learn techniques to use for the lower body. Our massage therapist will walk you through step-by-step and give tips on how to use your fist and elbows, as well as your hands, to relieve muscle tension and stress, and help prevent injury by warming up the muscles before an athletic performance.

About the Expert

Expert: Cherie Krieger has been a registered massage therapist for five years and a state certified massage therapist instructor for one year. Krieger has had a wide variety of experience in massage including but not limited to: Sporting events, farmers' markets, retreats/occasions, and chair massage at offices and Austin City Hall.

Krieger has developed her own techniques that especially apply to the upper back and the therapuetic relief of the entire back.

Krieger has resided in Austin for the last five years where she has been a volunteer therapist and coordinator. She is well trained in medical, occupational, orthopedic, sports and swedish massage.

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