Sports massage

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The legs of the racing cyclist Bruno Demke are massaged before a race

The sports massage is a supplement to the classic massage . Here you use the handles of the classic massage as well as other additional handles and address the needs of the athlete as well as the special problems in sports . Assuming that active athletes are more robust than possibly frail elderly people, the massage is performed correspondingly more vigorously and the body is prepared for an upcoming physical strain and is supplied with blood. Cramps that develop during exercise can be treated with the stretch grips that are part of the sports massage . After Sport is regenerative and loosening massage.

  • The Italian volleyball player Francesca Piccinini receives a massage

  • Marathon runners receive a massage

literature

  • Thomas Meyer: Sports massage . Stiebner Verlag GmbH, Bamberg 2005, ISBN 3767908875 .