Overview of Sports Massage Therapy

Series Summary

Massages and massage therapy can be extremely beneficial and relaxing for many people who have chronic muscle pain or simply need to relax and reduce stress. Massage is a treatment where soft body tissues are manipulated for physical, functional and therapeutic goals, and was developed in many ancient cultures. Today, massage therapy is used in a variety of ways, including pain relief, increasing the health of patients with a variety of diseases, and increasing mental health. It has also been show to increase flexibility, lower blood pressure, and stimulate the immune system.

In this free video series, our expert will be focusing on how to do sports massage therapy for common athletic injuries. Because of the physical toll sports take on an athletes body, massage therapy can be especially important to the health and well being of an athlete. Our expert will teach you how to do a variety of sports massages for different injuries, including tennis elbow, golfer's elbow, football neck and spine injuries and common soccer injuries. You will also learn how to increase circulation to common problem muscles and joints, as well as how to massage the hamstring and back, which are frequent injured body parts among many athletes. If you are interested in sports massage therapy, let our expert show you the tips and techniques you need for the beneficial type of massage.

Video Transcript

"ALEXSON ROY: Hi, and thank you for watching Expert Village. My name is Alexson. I'll be your therapist for today. This is my series on massage therapy. I am a massage therapist. I've been studying body work and massage therapy for eight years now. I went to Englewood School of Massage in Newark, New Jersey, and now, I practice at Paypony Nail and Day Spa. So we're going to begin today on sports massage. And sports massage is generally related to athletes, or weekend warriors, or people who kinda like workout, and then they might have problems affiliated with their workout, or maybe joint issues. Because in this particular massage, there's a lot of movement, there's a lot stretching and there's a lot of passive range of motion that we're going to kinda contribute to the therapeutic part of this massage. So what we're going to do first is we're going to work on the upper body, and we're going to work on, pretty much, the shoulders and the joints attributed to the shoulders and the arms."