Massage Highgate

Alex Nielsen is a sports massage therapist with experience working for Hampstead Rugby Club and the Whittington Hospital. He runs the popular website PTClinic that overviews best practices for rehabilitation and postural assessment.

Sports massage is designed to improve athletic performance but and recovery by using a combination of very fast-paced strokes that includes the following massage modalities: friction, rocking, vibration and stretching to help flush out toxins from the muscle tissue. Sports massage assists in injury prevention and promotes faster recovery from both training and injury. This particular application of massage and stretch techniques helps to enhance the athlete's performance. It increases range of motion, relieves muscle soreness and improves general wellbeing. Sports massage is useful to an athelete during pre-event training, post-event and treatment of an injury. Pre-event usually occurs at the performance site.