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A sports massage may not be a blissful experience, but it’s an effective treatment that will heal old injuries and prevent new ones.

TEXT CHARLENE FANG AND ESTELLE LOW

Sports massages get a bad rap and we can understand why. When you attach the word massage to any form of therapy, the immediate association is: “relaxing”, “blissful”, “sleep-inducing” – sports massages are anything but that. Often confused with deep tissue massage (DTM), a generic term for a manual massage treatment to reduce areas of tension over the entire body, sports massage therapists move more deeply into the muscles than a classic massage. “DTM promotes blood flow and circulation, and is great for general identification of muscle weaknesses,” says Lynsey Keyes, UFIT’s head of marketing and a trained sports massage therapist. “Sports massage is actually a type of deep tissue massage that is targeted at helping recovery after sports or preventing sports injuries. It can be used as regular maintenance in between…

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Shape Singapore (Digital) - 1 Issue, August/September 2019

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