Sports Massage Therapy
About Me...
My name is Simon Roberts and I am a qualified Sports Massage Therapist offering all aspects of sports therapy treatments and specialising in deep tissue massage. I qualified in sports massage therapy in June, 2019 and successfully completed the VTCT Level 3 qualification at Cornwall College, Saltash.
Before branching out into the world of sports massage therapy, I graduated as a teacher from Bangor University in 1999. For the past 20 years, I have worked in primary schools across Plymouth, South-East Cornwall and Devon.
Living and working in a fast-paced society, especially within the education profession, I witnessed many hard-working and frustrated colleagues, whose work/life balance had become very difficult to manage. This was a major reason why I was inspired to become a sports therapist to try and help people re-dress the balance within their busy lives. Having a deep tissue massage would help to relieve stress and tension that undoubtedly has built up within the muscles of the human body.
What is Sports Massage Therapy?
Massage dates back thousands of years to ancient Chinese, Greek and Egyptian cultures.
In more recent times, sports massage therapy now involves the manipulation of a person’s muscles using various massage techniques. Short, tense muscles can be stretched out and lengthened, therefore decreasing discomfort, easing joint pressure and reducing injuries.
Those receiving a sports massage will also have unwanted toxins drained from the body. The therapist will also use a combination of techniques such as soft tissue release, neuromuscular techniques and joint mobilisation to identify and ease deep discomfort stored within the muscles.
Knots or trigger points may also be found which can be dispersed after a thorough sports massage treatment.
Your Treatment
An effective sports massage treatment will always be personalised to each individual client and will begin with a detailed consultation including a postural assessment and discussion of any issues or injuries.
The treatment will consist of a relaxing, deep tissue massage easing out any knots, trigger points or tension that maybe identified. Treatments can be tailored for your specific needs by adjusting the depth of pressure, selecting the most appropriate medium for you and using a range of sports therapy techniques to assist in re-balancing your body. A treatment will always end with a reassessment of your conditions and useful after care advice will be offered.
It is possible that after a treatment, an existing condition could get a little worse before it gets better, but this should usually subside within 48 hours.
Conditions Treated
• Muscular tension and stiffness
• Back, neck and shoulder discomfort
• Achilles tendon pain
• Tennis and Golfer’s elbow
• Frozen shoulder or rotator cuff injuries
• Knee problems
• Pre and post event treatments
• Muscular symptoms of stress, anxiety and depression
• Headaches and migraines
Benefits of Sports Massage Therapy
A sports massage is available to a wide range of people from casual or competitive sports men and women to the more relaxed individual, who prefer to exercise by taking a gentle stroll or doing the garden.
Deep tissue massage may also benefit people whose work is physically demanding from manual workers to people who may work on computers for most of their day. Most jobs that people do in our modern day society will put their body’s muscular systems under some form of stress and tension. Sports massage therapy uses deep tissue manipulation to help alleviate these muscular issues and help the body return to a state of homeostasis.
Benefits of Sports Massage:
• Helping to reduce recovery time after an injury
• Alleviates muscular tension and tightness
• Rectifies imbalances within muscles
• Increasing fitness capabilities
• Enhancing performance
• Promotes joint flexibility
• Helps combat stress
• Softens scar tissue
• Boosts circulation and lymph flow
• Reduces pain
• Aids removal of toxins
• Prevents future injury by identifying problem areas
Sports & Stones Massage Therapy
Stones have been used in many cultures over thousands of years to help relax, reduce pain, soothe away tense muscles and ease damaged soft tissues throughout your body.
Enjoy the benefits of a blend of Sports Massage and Hot Stone Therapy where warm, basalt stones are massaged through muscles to help soothe and ease areas of identified tension.
✓ Relaxes muscles
✓ Improves circulation
✓ Decongesting and Detoxifying
✓ Reduces mental stress and promotes better sleep
✓ Induces mental relaxation and calmness
✓ Improves concentration
Relax and let the stones de-stress your body and mind and let their natural healing properties re-energise you.