Sports Massage Therapy Techniques for the Lower Body

Series Summary

Massage therapy is a practice with a multiplicity of benefits. Whether it’s a quick rubdown or a full-body treatment, the human touch has practical applications for promoting both physical and emotional well-being. The basic idea behind massage is the use of motion, pressure, tension, and vibration on certain areas of the body, localized around muscles or joints in pain or under stress. This allows a release of tension and a return to a homeostatic condition. Therefore, massage is very important for general stress relief, pain management, preventing muscle injury, encouraging physical and emotional healing, or improving circulation.

Sports massage is a particular branch of massage that focuses on relieving skeleto-muscular tension and returning the muscles to a loose, relaxed state. Sports massage techniques provide a number of important benefits to athletes. Since they regularly train their muscles hard for peak performance, and then go out a push their bodies to the limit and beyond, they are prone to constant and chronic injuries. Sports massage helps to prevent some of those injuries, as well as speed up recovery time and relieve extreme muscle cramping and tension.

In this free video guide to sports massage therapy, learn techniques to use for the lower body. Our massage therapist will walk you through step-by-step and give tips on how to use your fist and elbows, as well as your hands, to relieve muscle tension and stress, and help prevent injury by warming up the muscles before an athletic performance.

Video Transcript

" Hello this is Cherie Krieger on behalf of expertvillage.com. Today we are going to be discussing and showing techniques on how to do sports massage. We will start out with the lower extremities, the legs, we will show techniques position of the hands and arms and then we go into stretching the legs and the lower back. After that we will go into demonstrating how to work the upper back and the arms. Therefore, giving a total very good sport massage that should leave the athletic that you are working on very relaxed and also prepped and ready to go for there next athletic event. "