Massage Therapy
Massage therapy can be a powerful ally in healing your sports injury.
Our elite team of massage therapists can make you feel better in lots of ways.
Soft tissue injury
Helps to assist the recovery of an existing soft tissue injury.
Sore muscles
It relieves your sore muscles and aching joints.
Joint health
It promotes your joint health and improves the range of motion of a joint.
Helps healing process
It accelerates your healing process and helps to breakdown and remove scar tissue.
Improves digestive system
It improves your digestive system by releasing tension in your abdominal and intestinal muscles, helping to eliminate waste from your body, and stimulating the activity of your liver and kidneys.
Relaxes nervous system
It reduces tension in your muscles and brings a feeling of relaxation.
Chronic pain
It reduces chronic pain and headaches.
Improves posture
It can relax and loosen the muscles made sore by bad posture and allow your body to position itself in the correct posture.
Promotes well-being
It promotes general well-being by alleviating stress, tension, anxiety, depression and insomnia.
Improves immune function
It helps to boost your immune system and flush out toxins, increasing blood flow throughout your body.
Energy
It accelerates your levels of energy.
Improves circulation
It improves the circulation of your blood and your lymphatic systems.
Remedial Massage
Remedial massage can assist your body to function at its optimum level – free from what can be quite debilitating muscular pain. Remedial massage uses specific techniques to rehabilitate your soft tissue injuries, to work on your musculoskeletal imbalances and neuromuscular holding patterns (caused by poor postural and work habits), and to help manage your chronic pain.
Trigger point therapy
Trigger points are small, tight knots that develop in your muscles. This therapy uses pressure to relieve muscle tightness and pain.
Myofascial release
Gentle sustained pressure is applied into myofascial connective tissue restrictions to eliminate your pain and restore motion.
Increased stress
A pressure overload on a bone or soft tissue structure that leads to increased stress.
Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation (PNF)
This involves the stretching and contraction of your muscle group that is being targeted.
Advanced stretching
This technique helps to return your soft tissue structures to their normal resting length.
Cupping
Cupping is a technique used to increase blood flow by using cups to create a suction effect.
Dry Needling
This treatment uses fine needles placed into trigger points in your muscle tissue to help release knots and muscle pain.
Sports Massage
Sports massage can work for anyone who is active, from a recreational athlete to an elite athlete. Your sports massage therapist targets the most troublesome parts of your body, helping to improve your performance, increase your range and quality of movement, and prevent injuries. Sports massage can be used to effectively treat a range of conditions, such as
- Tendonitis
- Increased stress
- Sprains
- Muscle and fascial adhesions
Our sports massage therapists work in conjunction with your training schedules and conditioning programs to enhance your performance, aid in your recovery from competition and reduce the risk of injuries occurring.
Purchase 5 massage sessions and get 1 FREE!
Available on all 30, 60 & 90 minute massage options.
Enquire and purchase at reception.
Deep Tissue Massage
Deep tissue massage focuses on the deeper layers of your muscle tissue. It aims to release chronic patterns of tension in your body through slow strokes and deep finger pressure on the contracted areas. This could either follow or cross the fibres of your muscles, tendons and fascia. The benefits of a deep tissue massage include:
Re-positions
It re-positions your muscles, tendons and ligaments that may have become bunched and shortened.
Pain relief, energy and well-being
As your patterns of tension and stress are released, you’ll experience pain relief, increased energy and an improved sense of relaxation and well-being.
Realigns
It realigns your body, releasing patterns of tension and stress.
Improves posture
It increases your mobility and range of movement so your posture can return to normal.
Pregnancy Massage
- Reducing peripheral swelling
- Soothing your nervous system
- Helping to prevent insomnia, muscle cramps and back and neck pain.
There are many physical benefits to pregnancy massage, in addition to the nurturing and emotional support our expert massage therapists provide to you. These include:
Belly pillow
At Balmain Sports Medicine, we use the Belly Pillow in your massage sessions. This is the ultimate pregnancy pillow. You can lie on your front, easing the pressure on your back, and have massages throughout your whole pregnancy.
Massage on your side
Our specialist massage therapists can also massage you lying on your side, with special pillows and bolsters for support and comfort.
Swedish Massage
Relieves fatigue
It increases circulation, thereby speeding the recovery of muscle tissue and performance
Reduces tension
It encourages muscles to relax and stretch, relieving any tightness or tension.
Calms nervous system
It stimulates receptors that transmit sensory signals to your central nervous system, causing your tension to reduce and inducing a feeling of calm.
Renewed energy
As your muscles relax, and your circulation increases, you’ll experience renewed energy.
Maintains muscles
It can help to maintain your muscles in an optimum state of nutrition, flexibility and vitality.
Relieves muscle tightness
Relieves tight muscles that could restrict your movement.
Personalised gift vouchers
A personalised Gift Voucher is a great way to thank a friend or loved one, or say Happy Birthday. To arrange a Gift Voucher, please contact our administration staff.
Book online now or give us a call to discuss what kind of appointment you need
Our practitioners can help solve the cause of your pain.
Balmain Sports Medicine has some of Australia’s top practitioners who are experts in sports medicine. If you have an injury or are experiencing pain, one of our expert practitioners can help.
Laura Atterton
Cass Martin-Smith
Nicole Robertson
Carla-Jo Cutrupi
Pete Repeti
Cristtopher Mengatto
Discover the difference our specialist massage therapists can make to your body.
Pain relief is just a booking away at Balmain Sports Medicine.
