Sports Massage

A sports massage at Atlanta Sports Recovery is geared to you, the athlete, with regard to your specific sport. Our massage therapist focuses on the specific muscles you use to participate in your sport to increase your flexibility and reduce stress on your muscles. Sports massage also helps:

• Pain alleviation
• Increase range of motion
• Soft tissue release
• Endurance improvement
• Injury prevention
• Fatigue reduction

During your session, our therapist will target muscle-tendon junctions, such as hip flexors, to improve your range of motion and decrease soreness. We will typically uses faster massage strokes than with other massage techniques, and they may also include pressure point therapy, compression, and joint mobilization.

Athletes of all levels and abilities can benefit from adding sports massage therapy to their workout and health routine. Massage therapy releases overused muscles and keeps them flexible, helping you combat the pain and injury that can result from repetitive motions often required in competitive sport. Sports massage is typically effective for runners, cyclists, racquet sports players, and many other athletes, after intense workouts.

Sports massage promotes tissue repair in fatigued muscles and increases blood flow to a specific area to help you recover and prepare for your next workout.

If you have a big game coming up, or a marathon, you may benefit from our deep tissue sports massage treatment 2-7 days before the event. Typically, you don’t want us to work your muscles over via deep tissue sports massage less than 48 hours before an event because you will probably be sore on game or race day.

Ladies – please wear a sports bra and shorts. Be prepared to only wear your sports bra and shorts.

Gentleman, wear compression shorts, shorts or boxers. You will take everything else off.