Provide Sports Massage

Course Overview

What is Sports Massage?

Sports massage is useful for anyone who exercises, and aims to prevent injuries, increase flexibility, and aid with healing after a sports injury. It is designed to help athletes pre, during and post training.

Different sports and sporting injuries require different methods of sports massage. Through stimulating inactive muscles, stretching tight muscles, and improving the condition of the soft tissue, sports massage aims to reduce the tension and stress from exercise that can build up in the body’s soft tissue.

Sports Massage is used to:

• improve performance
• increase endurance
• reduce recovery time post-injury
• reduce the likelihood of injury

Sports Massage Techniques include:

• neuromuscular technique: removing pain and tension by targeting trigger points in the nervous system
• soft tissue release: stretching and locking the tissues and muscles
• fascial release: release the connective tissues by deep, slow kneading around the muscles
• positional release: used to relax hyperactive muscles

Course Title

Provide Sports Massage

Course Objectives

To equip therapists with knowledge and application skills to provide Sports massage at a spa or massage establishment.

Participants should, preferably be already competent in any one of the following competency units:

• Provide Swedish Massage
• Provide Full-body Massage with Oil
• Provide Full-body Massage without Oil