What is sports massage?
January 31, 2010 - 9:58 am
Typically when you go and have a massage, the massage therapist directs his/her efforts on a general area e.g. whole body or shoulders and neck. In sports massage therapy courses you are taught to focus more on specific areas which can be before or after training, or when dealing with a sports injury. An overlap with medical massage is there and a therapist would typically work for sports clubs, fitness centers, and private clinics. A firmer pressure is usually applied than say in general relaxation type massages (e.g. Swedish massage) and are designed to help prevent and treat injury instead of relax all your stresses away.