RMT Sports Massage

A sports massage is a highly specialized, fast-paced treatment designed specifically for athletes and active individuals. Unlike standard bodywork, it focuses directly on improving athletic performance, accelerating recovery, reducing injury risks, and maintaining joint mobility.

Instead of using a generic full-body routine, a sports massage is customized around your specific sport, training schedule, and target muscle groups.

The Four Styles of Sports Massage Depending on where you are in your training or competitive cycle, your session will fall into one of four distinct categories:

Pre-Event (Stimulating): Performed 15 to 45 minutes before a game or race. It uses rapid, brisk, and light strokes to stimulate circulation, raise muscle temperature, and psych up the nervous system without causing fatigue.

Post-Event (Recovery): Conducted within 2 hours to 24 hours after intense physical exertion. The focus shifts entirely to slow, calming pressure and light lymphatic strokes to clear cellular waste, reduce delayed-onset muscle soreness (DOMS), and down-regulate the nervous system.

Training / Maintenance (Structural): Performed regularly during your active season. The therapist targets deep tissue, applies cross-fiber friction to break up micro-scarring, and incorporates stretching to keep muscles flexible and joint biomechanics tracking smoothly.

Rehabilitation (Injury Care): Designed to treat acute or chronic sports injuries (like tennis elbow, hamstring strains, or shin splints). It frequently combines targeted soft-tissue work with corrective exercise or orthopedic assessments.

Core Intention: Performance enhancement, structural balance, and rapid injury recovery.

The technique: Variable pacing; blends active stretching, compression, and joint mobilization.

The structure: Interactive; you may actively contract muscles or move joints mid-stroke. May include neuromuscular facilitations and active or myotonic muscle releases. It uses targeted techniques (such active releases, neuromuscular fascilitations, deep massage, stretching, compression, and trigger point work) to address the demands of training, competition and recovery.

Sports massage is widely used and supported for the following benefits:

Improved recovery and reduced muscle soreness — It helps decrease delayed onset muscle soreness (DOMS) after intense exercise, clears metabolic waste (like lactic acid buildup faster in some views), and promotes faster tissue repair through better circulation. Many athletes report feeling less stiff the next day.

Enhanced flexibility and range of motion — Regular sessions can increase muscle and joint mobility, which supports better movement patterns and indirectly aids performance.

Injury prevention — By relieving muscle tension, improving muscle balance/firing patterns, and addressing tight or overused areas, it may lower the risk of strains, sprains, or overuse issues.

Faster overall recovery — It supports blood flow, lymphatic drainage, and the body’s natural repair processes, helping athletes return to training sooner after hard sessions or events.

Reduced muscle tension and pain relief — It eases tightness, knots, and hypertonicity, providing relief from exercise-related discomfort and supporting rehabilitation from minor injuries.

Psychological benefits — Many experience reduced stress/anxiety, better mood, lower perceived fatigue, and improved sense of readiness or relaxation—valuable for mental preparation in sports.

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• 80min Initial Sports Massage 80 minutes - $160.00 - Offered by Angela Da Silva
• 50min Initial Sports Massage 50 minutes - $160.00 - Offered by Angela Da Silva