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    Massage: The Application of Massage in Sport

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    Massage involves the manual manipulation of soft tissues through mechanical or manual means for physiological, psychological, preventative and therapeutic purposes. It can be applied using hands, elbows, feet or other tools. Massage benefits include pain relief, reduced anxiety and depression, and temporarily lowered blood pressure and heart rate. Massage has a long history dating back over 4000 years and is still widely practiced today. It is not recommended for those with bleeding disorders, blood clots, fractures or fever. Massage can be applied to aid recovery from injuries or training in sports contexts before, during or after competition or training.

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    Massage: The Application of Massage in Sport

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    Massage involves the manual manipulation of soft tissues through mechanical or manual means for physiological, psychological, preventative and therapeutic purposes. It can be applied using hands, elbows, feet or other tools. Massage benefits include pain relief, reduced anxiety and depression, and temporarily lowered blood pressure and heart rate. Massage has a long history dating back over 4000 years and is still widely practiced today. It is not recommended for those with bleeding disorders, blood clots, fractures or fever. Massage can be applied to aid recovery from injuries or training in sports contexts before, during or after competition or training.

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    Massage involves the manual manipulation of soft tissues through mechanical or manual means for physiological, psychological, preventative and therapeutic purposes. It can be applied using hands, elbows, feet or other tools. Massage benefits include pain relief, reduced anxiety and depression, and temporarily lowered blood pressure and heart rate. Massage has a long history dating back over 4000 years and is still widely practiced today. It is not recommended for those with bleeding disorders, blood clots, fractures or fever. Massage can be applied to aid recovery from injuries or training in sports contexts before, during or after competition or training.

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    Massage: The Application of Massage in Sport

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    Massage involves the manual manipulation of soft tissues through mechanical or manual means for physiological, psychological, preventative and therapeutic purposes. It can be applied using hands, elbows, feet or other tools. Massage benefits include pain relief, reduced anxiety and depression, and temporarily lowered blood pressure and heart rate. Massage has a long history dating back over 4000 years and is still widely practiced today. It is not recommended for those with bleeding disorders, blood clots, fractures or fever. Massage can be applied to aid recovery from injuries or training in sports contexts before, during or after competition or training.

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    Massage

    Massage can be defined as the methodic manipulation of the soft body tissues through
    manual or mechanical actions with physiological, psychological, prophylactic and therapeutic
    purposes. Massage has effects on the blood circulation, subcutaneous circulation, the arterial
    system, the musculoskeletal system, the muscular contraction and the relaxation. It can be
    applied with hands, fingers, elbows, knees, forearms, feet and other medical aids. In professional
    settings massage involves the client being treated while lying on a massage table, sitting in
    a massage chair, or lying on a mat on the floor. The massage subject may be fully or
    partly unclothed. Parts of the body may be covered with towels or sheets. The most cited reasons
    for introducing massage as therapy have been client demand and perceived clinical effectiveness.
    Massage therapy is one of the oldest health care practices known to history. References to
    massage are found in Chinese medical texts more than 4000 years old and in many writings from
    ancient civilizations including Rome, Greece, India, Japan China, Egypt and Mesopotamia. In
    modern times massage is popular all over the world and is still gaining in popularity. Medical
    researches have shown that the benefits of massage include pain relief in the areas of spinal cord,
    shoulder, and back, helps patients with diskal hernia, fault in posture, reduced
    trait anxiety and depression, temporarily reduced blood pressure and heart rate. Massage is not
    recommended in cases of deep vein thrombosis, bleeding disorders, damaged blood vessels,
    hypertension, weakened bones from cancer, osteoporosis, or fractures, and fever. Practitioners of
    massage include massage therapists (masseur or masseuse), athletic trainers (the 1996 Summer
    Olympics in Atlanta was the first time that massage was offered as a core medical service) and
    physical therapists.
    The application of massage in sport
    According to some research, applying the massage in the medical recovery and
    rehabilitation is an important means of shortening the inactivity time of the sportsmen. This
    determines the planning and achievement of a bigger training volume, which means 2 or 3
    training sessions a day. The massage is one of the most important “relaxations without
    inhibition, activation and functional stimulation without effort method”.
    It can be applied in the following situations:
    - In the training period (usually after the training session);
    - In the competition period; before the contest; between contests; after contests;
    - In the medical rehabilitation period;
    - In case of specific accidents and injuries, as follows: a) in lesions of the peripheral soft
    tissues; b) in muscle and tendons lesions; c) in joint injuries; d) in bone injuries; e) in peripheral
    nerves injuries; e) in case of functional disorders; f) in over-training; g) in physical exhaustion.

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