SPORTS MASSAGE
Sports massage is basically a form of therapy that is applied to healthy people who do sports. The massage therapist requires more effort than other types of massage, but, above all, forces him to know the specific muscle groups involved in the sport, which will, together with the corresponding joints, the region’s most exacting demands of countless competition and repeating the same motions of each sport.
The massage therapist you choose this specialty, you will know, too, the typical lesions of each sport, its signs and symptoms, and strictly respect the limitations of their professional practice.
Shall be free to approach the technique used in each circumstance, which depend on the “moment” when the massage is done (pre or post competition, training, cramps, contractures, etc.). Of sex and age of the recipient, the “quality “of the sport: high competition, for example.
This type of massage usually includes also certain manipulations designed to loosen joints and active-passive movements, since the aim of pre-race massage, for example, is to increase the muscle response, optimizing contractility and muscle elasticity, but also “soften” the joints.
Based on our experience, we believe that this specialty will be a temptation for coaches, fitness instructors and PE teachers, staff trainners, and anyone involved from an angle leading the world of sports, becoming for them a labor resource of immediate realization.
Sports massage should be reminded that their primary function is to prepare the athlete or player for competition, and this “set” has a large psychological component, probably, is the charisma and personality all of massage that transforms him into the person required and appreciated in gyms, locker rooms, training rooms, etc..
The sports massage therapist must know the basic and fundamental anatomical terminology, as well as disorders and / or injury, to interpret the instructions of coaches, technical directors, medical school, etc.
the sports massage course is taught in ACP, high professional training, and a training center with over 20 branches across the country. Given the characteristics of the program, students will have previously studied massage therapy, and may do graduates of any institution (subsidiary of kinesiology, massage technicians, masseurs, beauticians, etc.).. Over 12 classes will receive intensive practical training will be important and all the theoretical training necessary to ensure the ethics of all serious and concerned.