Sports Massage for Soccer Injuries

Video Transcript

"ALEXSON ROY: So soccer, a great sport in Europe, not U.S. They have a lot issues with the shin, okay? Calf issues not so much, okay? Maybe, they might cramp up in their calves, but the shin is so tight, extremely tight here. So what we're going to do is we're going to kinda like--really, the only thing you can do because it's so tender, I mean, it's tender to the touch. If you have shin splints, you're in pain, okay? So the thing is you want to kinda create a nice surface. You don't want to press it, point on it. You don't want to like, maybe, put your palms down and, kinda, just go along it and then press out towards your knee, okay? Or you can, you know, just go along and press it down, coming back up this way, okay? Create a nice surface, press down and press down, okay? This muscle is really, really tight, so there's not too much you can do as far as different modalities like, you know, kneading or anything like that. So what you want to do, you want to just kinda create some type of pressure and some type of flow, but since it is still tight, you want to kinda--you don't want to irritate it any more than it already is. So that's for an irritated shin. So let me show next what you're going to do if, let's say, you're trying to warm up the shin or it's about to get tight and they're really not having any problems, but you want to create some circulation."