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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.

 

It turns out that you can drink too much water! Hyponatremia, endurance sports and the Kokoda Trail

23 Jun

Bizz Johnson Marathon - Starting LineThere’s always lots of interesting health and science research popping up every few weeks and one of the last ones to catch my attention is a condition called Hyponatremia. Definitely sounds scary and so it should. It’s a serious, life-threatening condition that has come to the attention of the media following several deaths of healthy and fit people on the Kokoda Trail.

When this condition is present during an activity like an ultra-marathon or trekking the Kokoda trail, a person’s sodium level has dropped to a dangerously low level. By drinking way too much water, the sodium levels in the body become diluted and can bring about hyponatremia and its symptoms of nausea, confusion, loss of appetite, lethargy, headache, reduced level of consciousness, seizures or coma.

If you take part in serious endurance activity of any sort where you are worried about dehydration, consider that there is such a thing as having “too much to drink”. Do some research and analysis for yourself to determine how much fluid you need to replace during your activity.?

Part of your recovery

Along with proper nutrition following serious endurance activities, it is important to have a few massages mixed in with light workouts and stretching. Musclefix can provide you with an excellent solution during your recovery. We can come and give you remedial and sports massage as a premium service in your home in the days or weeks of your recuperation. Remedial massage will help to speed up recovery and smooth out micro tears and help with DOMS following your adventure.

For more on Hyponatremia: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18333641

 
 
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