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Sports massage

Are you looking for relief from those workout and physical exercise aches and pains? Have you got pulled or strained muscles? Would you like to help achieve and maintain maximum physical performance?  These are all good reasons to have a sports massage.

A sports massage is a form of deep tissue massage, a systemic manipulation of the soft tissues, muscles, tendons and facia of the body using many different movements and techniques.

These movements are used to help the body of the patients and athletes achieve maximum performance and physical conditioning with a reduced chance of injury, reduced pain and quicker recovery.

You can use sports massage in preparation for a sports event event, and for post event treatment to rehabilitate easier return to or maintaining your training and exercise.

The Benefits of Sports Massage:

  • Increase and boost performance
  • Increase Range of joint Movement (ROM)
  • Increase joint flexibility
  • Increased sense of wellbeing by releasing natural pain killers – endorphins
  • Increases and boosts circulation of blood flow, nutrients and lymphatic drainage
  • Reduces muscle tension
  • Reduces neurological excitability
  • Reduces muscle spasms
  • Reduces muscle soreness
  • Induces better sleep by way of increasing relaxation and reducing stress and anxiety
  • Benefits injury rehabilitation
  • Overall reduction of pain and improving mood

Remedial Massage

Muscular problems and injuries can radiate pain to other parts of the body, commonly into the hips, knees, back, neck, shoulders and causing headaches and migraines.

Remedial massage aims to treat damaged, tense, knotted or immobile muscles. Many  issues and problems involving bones, muscles and tendons can be successfully treated or cured with remedial massage. It is used to help aid repair to damaged areas and speed up the body’s natural healing process.

Remedial massage reduces stress, anxiety and depression by reducing the levels of adrenaline, cortisol and other stress hormones and increasing the levels of endorphins, serotonin and dopamine – the ‘feel good’ hormones that encourage relaxation, calm, contentment and happiness; improving mental state, clarity and alertness.

The Benefits of Remedial Massage:

  • Improves posture and joint flexibility
  • Boosts immunity and improves sleep by increasing lymphatic drainage and decreasing the stress hormones
  • Increases relaxation and encourages calmness
  • Improves skin tone by improving blood with nutrient circulation, cell regeneration, increased sebum production and improves moisture and the suppleness of the skin.
  • Increases joint range of movement (ROM) / mobility
  • Reduces muscle tension and pain
  • Assists in treating a wide variety of health conditions such as: insomnia, headaches, migraines, depression and anxiety, back pain, arthritis, hypertension (high blood pressure), chronic pain conditions such as fibromyalgia, constipation, and a wide variety of musculoskeletal disorders.

Aromatherapy Massage

The overall purpose of aromatherapy massage is to improve mental and physical wellbeing by using massage techniques and essential oils (highly concentrated plant oils). During an aromatherapy massage the essential oils are inhaled or absorbed by the skin promoting beneficial changes in your mind and body by affecting the limbic system – a region of the brain involved in emotion.

Essential oils have different properties; some calm and relax and others can make you feel more energised. This can be tailored to the clients desired effect.

The Benefits of Aromatherapy Massage:

  • Induces relaxation
  • Relieves stress
  • Improves symptoms of anxiety and depression by lowering the production of the stress hormones (cortisol and adrenaline) and increasing the production of the feel good hormones (serotonin and dopamine)
  • Improves insomnia
  • Reduces blood pressure
  • Increases blood circulation
  • Reduces muscle tension
  • Increases lymphatic drainage – boosting the immune system
  • Eliminating emotional tension
  • Helping with digestive problems by relieving stress
  • Relieving headaches and migraines
  • Aids reducing blood pressure
  • Improves pain reduction in all areas of the body

Facial and Scalp Massage

To compliment the full or part body massages described above we also offer facial and scalp massages which may be added to a full body massage or can be taken on their own as an individual treatment. We believe that there is nothing more relaxing and to give a sense of calm than a face and scalp massage added to a back massage.  Some people even call this bliss!
Highly recommended so why not give it a try, or treat a friend.

The Benefits of Facial Massage:

  • Increased blood flow to the skin – increasing oxygenation, increased collagen production, increased lymphatic drainage; this has a ANTI AGING effect, improves the skins texture, improves skin sagging, improves the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles, reduces the appearance of under eye bags and dark circles
  • Increases the absorption of facial products and improve dry skin
  • Reduces sinus pressure
  • Can help improve the appearance of acne
  • Reduce tension in the TMJ (Temporomandibular / Jaw joint)
  • Relieve overall tension, enhancing relaxation and skin health
  • Manage scar tissue – increases the blood flow, loosens up tight tissues and flattens “bumps”
  • Reduces headaches and migraines
  • Aids removal of toxins by increasing lymphatic drainage
  • Can help to treat Bell’s Palsy, a dysfunction of the 7th cranial nerve. Facial massage can help to increase muscle tone, prevent wastage of facial muscles and can help to speed up recovery in those with temporary Bell’s palsy

The Benefits of Scalp Massage:

  • Improved mood, increased relaxation and sense of wellbeing by increasing the release of serotonin and dopamine and lowering the stress hormone cortisol
  • Migraine and headache relief by reducing muscle tension and increasing blood circulation
  • Reduce anxiety, stress and over all tension
  • Stimulates lymphatic drainage – removal of toxins
  • Promotes new hair growth and improves the appearance of existing hair
  • Decrease in blood pressure – Research in 2016 found that 15 and 25 minute scalp massages could lower both systolic and diastolic blood pressure.

” I’ve seen a lot of massage therapists over the years and Sarah is by FAR the best! She has helped me so much with rib pain, shoulder and neck tension, and tight hips. She’s so knowledgeable and amazingly friendly and welcoming. I would highly recommend Sarah to anyone. Thanks Sarah!”

C. Davies (from Google reviews)

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