PRE-EVENT MASSAGE BENEFITS IMPROVE SPORTS PERFORMANCE

Pre-Event massage Benefits Improve Sports Performance



ABSTRACT

The equivocal outcome in the publications on efficacy of massage make it tough to consider the obligation for, or support the use of, expert massage staff at foremost athletics events. However, the use of massage by athletes throughout teaching and affray continues popular. To quantify the allowance of their time that physiotherapists dedicate to massage remedy at foremost athletics events in an try to work out the significance of this remedy modality, and to analyze if the use of massage at athletics events is altering over time. Methods: Data noted by the head group physiotherapist from 12 foremost athletics events (national and worldwide events) between 1987 and 1998 were examined. For each happening, the facts and numbers included: total number of treatments administered by the physiotherapist, the remedy modalities utilised, and the number of attendances for treatment. The allowance of massage supplied was conveyed as a percentage of the total number of treatments for each athletic happening, and the pattern of change in use of massage remedy over time was evaluated. The percentage of time expended supplying massage remedy extended from 24.0% to 52.2% of the total number of treatments made. The general median percentage of total treatments in the pattern of massage was 45.2%. No important boost or decline in the use of massage as a remedy modality was discerned between 1987 and 1998 in the athletics events analyzed (p = 0.95). A important percentage of physiotherapists' time is dedicated to the consignment of massage remedy at athletics events. The demand for massage remedy has been stable over the time time span, in the events for which facts and numbers are accessible, showing a reliable use of this remedy modality. Given the attractiveness of massage amidst athletes, concern should be granted to the use of expert sports massage employees at foremost athletics events. Furthermore, it would appear careful to farther enquire the efficacy of the treatment.

Table of Content

CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION1

Background1

Purpose of Study5

Research hypothesis6

Research Aims and Objective6

Scope of Study7

Significance of Study7

CHAPTER 2: LITERATURE REVIEW9

Background9

Origins10

Sports Pre-event massage therapy includes11

1.Pre-event11

2.Post-Event12

3.Maintenance12

Aims of Pre-event massage12

Benefits of Sports Pre-event massage14

Pre-event massage Techniques14

Effleurage15

Petrissage17

Frictions18

Pre-event massage Physiological Effects19

Blood Flow19

Delayed Onset of Muscle Soreness20

Lactate removal22

Removal of Metabolic Waste Products24

Lymphatic Drainage26

Psychological Effects26

Psychological Benefits of Pre-event massage28

The Nervous System - Pain30

Heat and Pre-event massage30

Injury Rehabilitation and Pre-event massage31

Injury Prevention33

Performance effects33

Effects of Pre-event massage on Human Body36

?Reflex effect36

?Biochemical effect36

?Mechanical effect36

CHAPTER 3: RESEARCH METHODOLOGY38

Overview38

Research Design38

Data Collection40

CHAPTER 4: RESULT AND ANALYSIS41

Results41

Discussion42

Physical benefits44

Pain Reduction45

Relaxation45

Sports Massage Importance45

CHAPTER 5: CONCLUSION48

Conclusion48

Future research52

REFERENCES53

CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION

Background

Pre-event massage has been a therapeutic modality in most heritage since early civilisation and has had a long custom of use in sport. Frequent assertions made in the sports publications for the advantages of Pre-event massage encompass advanced extending of tendons and connective tissue and respite of sinew stress and spasm. Pre-event massage is furthermore routinely presumed to enhance sinew recovery from strong workout, principally because it races up sinew body-fluid flow. However, investigations to designated day on body-fluid flow are ...