Everyday Pain
To your muscles, there’s no real difference between intense gym training and repeating the same movements in everyday life. Over time, repetitive use causes muscles to become tired, tight, and sore.
Activities such as desk work, long periods of driving, and manual labour commonly lead to muscle tightness and discomfort. Any movement performed repeatedly can have the same effect.
It’s not just the back and neck that are affected. The front of the shoulders often becomes painful from steering wheel or mouse use, while the legs can tighten from operating car pedals.
If you—or someone you know—experience frequent aches in areas you use regularly, with no obvious injury, sports massage can be just as beneficial as it is for athletes.
Athletes
Whether you’re training, competing, or simply working out in the gym, physical activity places ongoing demands on the body.
Tired muscles naturally become tight, but even minor injuries—such as strains—can cause muscles to enter a protective spasm.
In some cases, the healing process doesn’t fully resolve, creating a cycle of muscle spasms and inflammation that feed into one another. Over time, this can develop into persistent, nagging injuries.
Even after healing has occurred, scar tissue and minor damage to the connective fascia between muscles can restrict movement, causing tissues to stick rather than glide smoothly.
These dysfunctions are exactly what sports massage therapy is designed to treat.
In addition, as an experienced personal trainer, I can create targeted training programmes to strengthen weakened areas, support proper healing, and build the strength and resilience needed to prevent re-injury and ongoing pain.
Relaxation
While sports massage has many targetted techniques, it can also be performed for relaxation, too.
Just looking to unwind?
Try sports massage!
Relaxation massage can be performed on its own for the whole session, or added onto a sports massage treatment.
Strength and Recovery
Sometimes, massage alone is all that’s needed.
Sometimes, the affected area needs increased strengthening and stamina to cope with the demands that caused it to tighten up initially.
As an experienced personal trainer, I’m able to provide strengthening programmes to prevent recurrences of pain as part of the package of care that comes with massage sessions