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Sports Massage & Remedial Massage Therapy

08 Jan

Don’t let your body prevent you from performing your best!

Musclefix provides specific sports massage that will allow you to perform at your peak, without being hindered by injuries and allow you to train and recover as effectively as you can.

Sports massage has increasingly been used by athletes all over the world and is an integral part of any great training regime. It doesn’t matter if you’re an Olympian, elite athlete, amateur athlete or a weekend warrior, remedial massage can fix your aches and pains and allow you to perform at the level you should be.

There are three types of sports massage, each using different techniques and very different goals.

Pre-event massage helps prevent injury through warming up the muscles, increasing your flexibility and range of motion for optimum athletic performance, increasing blood and nutrient flow to muscles. Sports massage also reduces tension and anxiety and promotes psychological readiness, which can be a crucial factor in your sport.

Post-event massage reduces the impact of damage caused to the muscles during exercise. The swelling caused by tiny tears of muscle fibres is reduced along with easing your stressed muscles and aiding in the removal of lactic acid and other toxins. This damage usually results in soreness a day or two after exercise and we all know this as delayed onset muscle soreness (DOMS). Sports massage is proven to be effective in reducing the intensity and duration of DOMS which is great news for every sportsperson.

Maintenance massage is a daily routine for the best athletes in the world. Obviously daily massage isn’t practical/affordable for the average individual but getting regular massage once per week to every few weeks will keep the body in top condition. Maintenance massage will aid circulation and muscle performance, prevent overuse injuries and allow you to fight off injuries, train better and perform to your best.

 
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Massage in Melbourne – A City Embracing Massage

09 Jun

Melbourne, Australia by nightMelburnians are really taking to massage. It’s no secret that massage is good for you and I could rattle off a dozen health benefits but you probably already know them or could guess them. As a remedial massage therapist, I’m finding that the people of Melbourne are really becoming aware of the different types of massage and other therapies available to them. They know that they can get a rebate from their health insurer for remedial massages and their health funds are also advertising this fact on TV! I’ve seen many advertisements from NIB promoting the fact that they cover remedial massage along with physio, chiro and dental etc.

Research I did in my business plan in the RMIT Business Plan Competition showed that there was an estimated $400 million being spent annually on massage in Australia! That’s a lot of massages. But when you compare that to how much people would be spending on beer, servicing their cars, petrol, gym memberships. Although I am biased, being a massage therapist and all, I think people aren’t spending enough on massage! I’m even guilty of going a long time in between massages. Put your health and wellbeing before your car, your nights out in Melbourne and glossy magazines. Put $20 aside every week and have a massage at the end of every month!

What I’m seeing in Melbourne with massage is an increased media presence and general community chat. There’s training courses being advertised frequently and people talking about the massages they have had along with the usual stories of going to the hair dresser, having a killer session with the personal trainer and trying out new things like hot yoga.

So if you’re in Melbourne and have a few aches and pains book yourself in for a massage – you deserve it!

 
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