Add to ORKGBackground: Massage is a popular treatment choice of athletes, coaches, and sports physical therapists. Despite its purported benefits and frequent use, evidence demonstrating its efficacy is scarce. Purpose: To identify current literature relating to sports massage and its role in effecting an athlete’s psychological readiness, in enhancing sports performance, in recovery from exercise and competition, and in the treatment of sports related musculoskeletal injuries. Methods: Electronic databases were used to identify papers relevant to this review. The following keywords were searched: massage, sports injuries, athletic injuries, physical therapy, rehabilitation, delayed onset muscle soreness, sports psychology, sports performance, sports ...
Sport massage has been used for many years around the world as an aid to enhance performance, recove...
Background: Concussion, its recognition, diagnosis, and treatment is a growing public health issue. ...
Background: Little is known about the effects of providing massage as a combination therapy (CT) wit...
Objective: Massage is ubiquitous in elite sport and increasingly common at amateur level but the evi...
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Introduction: Sports massage is commonly used to treat pain, soreness, and stiffness related to spor...
For the purpose of massages before and after sports events, sportsmen are increasingly visiting soma...
The aim of this study was to investigate the efficacy of sports massage therapy (SMT) through the pe...
It is believed that sport massage after intensive exercise might improve power and perceptual recove...
The purpose of this study was to determine which MT techniques current licensed massage therapists p...
Background: Despite the general belief of the benefits and the widespread use of massage in sport fi...
Many coaches, athletes and sports medicine personnel hold the belief, based on observations and expe...
Background and Purpose: Evidence suggests that para-athletes are injured more often than able-bodied...
Massage has been a therapeutic modality in all cultures since early civilization and has had a long ...
Background: The equivocal findings in the literature on efficacy of massage makes it difficult to as...
Sport massage has been used for many years around the world as an aid to enhance performance, recove...
Background: Concussion, its recognition, diagnosis, and treatment is a growing public health issue. ...
Background: Little is known about the effects of providing massage as a combination therapy (CT) wit...
Objective: Massage is ubiquitous in elite sport and increasingly common at amateur level but the evi...
This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the School of Physical Therapy at CommonK...
Introduction: Sports massage is commonly used to treat pain, soreness, and stiffness related to spor...
For the purpose of massages before and after sports events, sportsmen are increasingly visiting soma...
The aim of this study was to investigate the efficacy of sports massage therapy (SMT) through the pe...
It is believed that sport massage after intensive exercise might improve power and perceptual recove...
The purpose of this study was to determine which MT techniques current licensed massage therapists p...
Background: Despite the general belief of the benefits and the widespread use of massage in sport fi...
Many coaches, athletes and sports medicine personnel hold the belief, based on observations and expe...
Background and Purpose: Evidence suggests that para-athletes are injured more often than able-bodied...
Massage has been a therapeutic modality in all cultures since early civilization and has had a long ...
Background: The equivocal findings in the literature on efficacy of massage makes it difficult to as...
Sport massage has been used for many years around the world as an aid to enhance performance, recove...
Background: Concussion, its recognition, diagnosis, and treatment is a growing public health issue. ...
Background: Little is known about the effects of providing massage as a combination therapy (CT) wit...