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.

Our massage therapists are highly trained and can offer a range of services to suit your needs and healing journey. Massage therapy has many benefits, which include:

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

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

Pregnancy massage uses a combination of Swedish and remedial massage techniques to assist with the tensions and pains experienced during pregnancy. 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:

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

The techniques your massage therapist will use are flowing and rhythmic, and they will apply pressure that suits your individual preference or needs. There are many benefits of 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.

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