Sports massage encourages healing of soft tissue injuries, prevents injury, improves physical performance, increases mobility and reduces the harmful symptoms of stress. In sports massage we use particular techniques to assess and treat overuse injuries, muscle damage and dysfunction and other soft tissue injuries. Treatment will tend to focus on the affected area rather that the whole body.
The theory behind holistic massage is to treat the client as a whole being, and as an individual within the context of their own life. A holistic treatment generally involves full body massage using swedish massage techniques. The holistic approach takes into account not only the physical symptoms, but also the the psychology, environment and nutrition, and how these positively and negatively affect the body. Massage treatment based on this information should allow a person to make improvements to their health themselves.
