Sports Massage Leamington Spa
Sports Massage is essentially a deep tissue massage. It aims to get deep into the muscle and return the muscle to its normal length and tone.
It can be uncomfortable, but is highly effective at loosening and rebalancing tight muscles.
What makes us different?
Based just 6 minutes drive from Leamington spa, The Reinge Clinic look at Sports Massage slightly differently. We look at why your body is feeling tight and use our biomechanical knowledge to ensure we loosen the right muscles to give a long term effect.
Sports Massage isn't just for sporty people, for example, let's say you had tight hamstrings. The first thing we would check is your pelvis position. Most people complaining of tight hamstrings have a pelvis that is tilted in a forward direction
The tilted pelvis, creates a line of tension down the back of your legs. The muscles are attached to the pelvis, so when the pelvis tilts, it stretches these muscles.
So rather than starting on the hamstrings, we would start by loosening the front of the legs. By releasing your thigh muscles, we allow the pelvis to move into a more neutral position. Thereby releasing the muscles on the back of the leg.
This means that when we then loosen the back of the legs, the bit that is tight and giving you problems, it is more likely to stay loose for longer.
Why do we give exercises?
A limitation of Sports Massage, is that you feel great for a short while but after a week or so you just feel tight again.
This is because Sports Massage only loosens muscles, it doesn't alter your muscle memory.
Over time, your muscles get used to the position they are in and if you alter this position through massage, the muscle will, over time, try to return to that position. The muscle feels strong in its old position and weak in the new position.
So we reinforce the new position by giving you a strength exercise and often a stretch.
After a few massage sessions, with the strengthening in between, the body will learn to feel strong in the new position and your massage will then last.
Nick Bull
I'm a Barber and along with that had lots of back trouble. Gina at The Reinge Clinic helped to ease these pains through deep tissue massage and made it so much easier for me to stand at work. I'd always advise anyone to check them out if I'm a similar position.
Ella Jude
Both Gina and Ian have given support when I have experienced pain due to a long term health condition. Both are very friendly and knowledgeable.
