Do you run, swim, bike, hike, climb, or power-walk everyday? Have you been in a race of any kind? Have you ever thrown up or cried crossing a finish line? If no pain no gain is in your regular vocabulary, then sports massage is right up your lane .

Boulder draws elite athletes from all over the world with hopes and dreams of becoming Olympic quality athletes or just local heroes with an obsession to push their bodies to extremes. With such endeavors in the forefront of their minds, they will sometimes experience the moment when their body decides to snap. It could be a tendon, muscle, ligament and/or the dreaded bone! Even though this is always a possibility, it rarely prevents true athletes from holding back to pursue their goals. This honored group of dedicated overachievers deserves a hand. No, stop clapping, I mean a massage hand!

Sports Massage In-Class Clinic-Students Using New and Varied Techniques

Every athlete knows that stretching, good diet and enough water are keys success, but Boulder athletes know that massage is just as important in keeping the body and mind ready to compete. I regularly work with athletes and I do love it. I have an Orthopedic and Sports Certification from BCMT, which gave me additional knowledge and understanding of the athletic body and mind. Most if not all, Olympic athletes have a massage therapist that travels with them; this is not surprising considering the benefits that come from regular massage.

Massage affects blood flow to tissue of all kinds. So depending on whether you want a pre-event, mid, or post-event massage it is going to have a variety of positive effects on the body. To put it in the easiest terms: blood is a train; bear with me, I love illustrations. So your train brings good stuff to town like supplies to feed the tissue and give it necessary nutrients to build you up and take care of any depletion in the system. It has many cars filled with oxygen and chemicals that do a bunch of different jobs. But on the other hand it has lots of empty cars that take away the rif raf.  Things like metabolic waste and damaged tissue have to be transported away. So anytime you are helping the body to move the wastes away and bring in more supplies you are going to perform better. Not only will your performance be smoother but you are less likely to get hurt because the body functions in a more economical way. We use stretching techniques that prepare the body to be pushed to its limits and it keeps the joints lubricated in the process to help prevent tearing.

Happy Athletes- Getting Out the Kinks.

Every quarter our Sports Massage Elective class gets to try their hand in working with serious athletes. After 9 weeks of classes they are assigned by their instructor to work with some of the amazing athletes from here in Boulder. It’s a great deal for everyone involved; the students get a supervised hands-on experience, and the athletes get a free massage with the only obligation being an honest open feed back be given to the students. Everyone wins! A massage is a gift you can give yourself, your body and your mind will thank-you.
So, if you are one of the die hard athletes that grace the streets in the early morning or run by me at top speed as I meander the walking paths, I give you a hand, you can clap now, or come see us for a massage!