The Body Repair

The Body Repair sports massage clinic offers clients individual treatments of soft tissue manipulation to restore and improve physical performance. Whether you have suffered an injury, have pain from a chronic condition or simply feel the aches and pains of poor posture, sports massage can help you towards a speedy recovery.

What is Sports Massage?

Sports Massage is the systematic manipulation of soft tissue, including fascia (the tissue surrounding muscles). Treatment is targeted to areas of dysfunction and breaks down adhesions (bands of painful, rigid tissue) restoring blood flow and realigning muscle fibres. Mobilisation of the joints with active and passive stretching are used in combination with a wide variety of massage techniques to lengthen and relax muscles thereby releasing tension and increasing range of movement.

Due to the impact on the body of high levels of physical activity (often repetitive in nature), athletes find Sports Massage highly beneficial in restoring and maintaining their physical performance.

However, anyone can benefit from Sports Massage as the same principles apply to any dysfunction of the body’s soft tissues. Whether this has occurred through an occupational or everyday injury or chronic conditions (dysfunction accrued over time), Sports massage can restore the body’s natural balance, alignment and mobility.

Treatment of the body’s soft tissues can also affect the psychological state and increase overall wellbeing.