Sports Massage caters to athletic patients of all types, professional, collegiate, and high-school level players – even people who exercise regularly and have an active lifestyle. Sports massage therapy is a more focused deep tissue massage and may focus on a certain area of the body. It uses a combination of deep and light modalities to loosen muscle knots, improve blood flow, and prevent lactic acid buildup.

A licensed massage therapist will evaluate your posture, the physical demands of your particular sport, and past sports injuries. Your sports massage therapist can concentrate on the areas of your body that are overworked or stress from aggressive and repetitive movements.

Sports massage techniques use deep tissue and stretching movements on the muscle-tendon junctions to provide certain advantages to enhance athletic performance:

• Pre-game warm-ups and post-game cooldowns
• Heal and prevent sport injury
• Improving flexibility
• Quicker recovery time between games.

Sports Massage Vs Deep Tissue

For many people, these two massage treatments seem very similar, but depending on your lifestyle, you may benefit from one more than the other.

Unlike the deep tissue massage, the sports massage technique mainly focuses on the areas most vulnerable to injury or stress as well as older and larger areas of built-up tension. For example, runners may need more work on their legs, while baseball pitchers may benefit from a shoulder and arm focus.

The main difference is that with the deep tissue massage, you receive full-body therapy to relieve new areas of pain in your muscles and tissues.

However, both massages apply deep and firm pressure, which may cause slight discomfort.

Choosing the Right Service

If you’re deciding between these two services, then there are a few questions to ask your massage therapist that may help you choose the best option:

• I used to play sports, but I haven’t in years. Which massage is best for relieving the tightness I still have from my time playing?
• Can I get a deep tissue massage that concentrates on one area, or do I have to get a sports massage for targeted areas?
• I experienced whiplash recently, should I get a sports massage session to heal the injury, or am I better suited for deep tissue? 

Choosing Right Massage Therapist is very important to address your concern. Massage2u have a highly skilled, and knowledgeable massage therapist to properly address the massage depending on what your body needs.