Sports and Therapeutic Massage | Kardia Life Fitness Center

THERAPEUTIC MASSAGE is a remarkable tool for helping you cope with stress. In the short term, a deeply relaxing massage can give you a welcome break and help you feel better both physically and mentally. Over time, you can use massage to help you develop healthy and productive responses to the stressful challenges in your daily life.

SPORTS MASSAGE is usually briefer in duration and more vigorous than a general full-body massage, focusing on particular muscles relevant to your athletic activity. Additionally, focus may be placed on reducing or eliminating factors that interfere with your performance potential, such as muscle spasms, tendinitis, and muscle fatigue.

Receiving a massage prior to athletic activity will loosen your muscles. Used in combination with stretching, it can help insure that your muscles will be warmed up and ready for intensive activity, thus improving your performance and endurance. Post-event massage can help relieve your pain, prevent any stiffness, and return your muscles to their normal state more rapidly.

Alleviates Problem Conditions
Supports your fitness or sports program
Combats the negative effects of aging
Relieves the effects of stress

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European Massage or Hot Stone Therapy refers to a variety of techniques specifically designed to relax muscles by applying pressure and/or heat. The main purpose of this type of massage is to increase the oxygen flow in the blood, release toxins from the muscles, alleviate soar muscles and relieve stress.

Deep Tissue Massage is a massage technique that focuses on the deeper layers of muscle tissue. It aims to release the chronic patterns of tension in the body through slow strokes and deep finger pressure on the contracted areas, either following or going across the fibers of the muscles, tendons and fascia. It is used to release chronic muscle tension through slower strokes and more direct deep pressure or friction applied across the grain of the muscles not with the grain. Deep tissue massage helps to break up and eliminate scar tissue. The purpose is to "unstick" the fibers of a muscle while releasing deeply-held patterns of tension, removing toxins, while relaxing and soothing the muscle. It is both corrective and therapeutic.