Sports Treatment
It can help your muscles perform better and prevent injury. Muscle injuries will often heal more effectively with the treatment.
Sports Therapy
is a specialty of techniques that focuses specifically on assisting the training process, preventing injury and aiding the healing process when injuries do occur.
What is Sports - Massage
Special form of massage developed to help athletes reach their peak perfomance, to assist in their recovery afterwards and to facilitate the healing processes after injuries as well as prevention from injuries. It utilises techniques similar Therapeutic and Trigger Point Massage being suitable for all individuals with injury and is adapted to their current problem. David uses his experience as an Osteopath to deliver comprehensive treatments.
There are four types
Training - Massage
To prepare the body for peak performance. It is vigorous and deep to the body's tissues and should be done at least a day before the competition.
Preparation (Pre Training) - Massage
Just before event. It is fast, light and pleasant inducing stimulation of the muscles.
Break Massage
During event to accelerate changes of fluid in muscles thus restoring and rebalancing their energy.
Anti-fatigue (Post Training)
After event to drain wastes away and restore a proper level of oxygen in the muscles and promote relaxation. Again it works vigorously and deeply into the tissues of the body.