Active sportspeople know how important it is to look after their bodies well, after all, when you’re injured you can’t play. Massage is an essential part of any sports treatment regime. It stimulates the circulation, releases toxins and helps to keep the muscles lengthened. It can be tailored to suit your needs, whether that’s a pre-event warm-up or a thoroughly relaxing post-session treatment.
For recovery from injury a more specific programme is needed. Gentle massage can still be useful to maintain circulation and muscle tone, especially if you have to break your training while you recover. But for rapid healing and recovery you need the best that technology can bring you, and that’s the Scenar or InterX – a biofeedback device that directly stimulates the body’s own healing mechanisms. Designed by the Soviets in the 1980’s, it is used extensively by their Olympic teams for rapid recovery and peak performance and its use is gaining ground in the USA (link to www.nrg-unlimited.com). The Scenar is particularly helpful at stimulating those tissues that are slow to heal ie tendons and ligaments, and will bring injuries to resolution that might otherwise take months or years
If you are really serious about your sport you might also find that Myofascial Release will help you break through performance barriers to the next level. Fascia is the seamless web of connective tissue that covers and connects the muscles, organs, and skeletal structures in our body. Injuries, stress, inflammation, trauma, and poor posture can all cause restriction and since fascia is interconnected, the restriction or tightness in one place will spread to other parts of the body like a pull in a sweater. Myofascial Release is a carefully targeted technique to release restrictions and restore flexibility and full range of movement.
Particularly useful for:
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Runners’ calves and hamstrings
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ITB problems, esp in rugby
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Ankles and knees that feel restricted even after recovery from injury
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Footballers’ groin strains
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Cricketing shoulders, esp bowlers
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Tennis players’ elbows and wrists
Sports Therapy with Deborah Moss at Natural Practices Clinic will help you to be your best. Sports Therapy is provided at Natural Practices Clinic by Deborah Moss KFRP. (link to http://www.the-bodyworks.com/2.html ) To contact her and discuss how she can help you can phone 07866 427690.
