Massage at Fitness Matrix
Massage…spoil your muscles!
Massage is pampering for your muscles and whether you do exercise or not, you need a massage. It helps to reduce muscle stiffness, pain, fatigue and increase flexibility, in addition to physical, emotional, and physiological improvements in the body. While it can stimulate the body and increase mental alertness, it can also reduce anxiety and promote feelings of well-being, which will enhance relaxation and can improve your health.
The power of touch has miraculous effects from the very young to the very old, from the ill to the marathon athlete and from the stay-at-home mum to the over-stressed executive. It has the power to relax, heal and help release emotions and relieve tension.
Your muscles are like a piece of bubble-wrap. The bubbles are full of waste fluids and the spaces between the bubbles become congested and stick together like glue, which is caused by the stresses and strains of everyday life. Massage bursts the bubbles, helping the lymphatic system dispose of the waste fluids and at the same time ‘ironing-out’ the congestions, which cleanses and refreshes the muscles, allowing them to perform to their optimum.
If you suffer an injury to a muscle, whether sporting related or not, the muscle needs help to repair and massage therapy aids the speed and quality of the repair. If the muscle is left to repair by itself, it will bind together in a sporadic way, which causes indiscriminate scar tissue and results in the muscle having significantly reduced performance, permanently. Conversely, if the injured muscle is subject to massage techniques, the tensile stress of the strokes gently coaxes the tissue fibres in one direction, which produces neatly aligned scar tissue and results in the muscle repairing to 80% of its original condition.
Whilst sports massage is a must for all muscle injuries, by having regular a massage, whether it is sports massage, deep tissue massage or a relaxing full body massage, it can also be a preventative treatment.
