Our physiotherapy massage services can assist healing, improve mobility, and increase wellbeing.
Does massage treatment seem indulgent? On the contrary, it may be essential to healing. Massage has many benefits. Your physiotherapist may use massage as part of a recovery and conditioning program, or you can request this service.
Therapeutic massage has been used throughout history. The ancient Romans built extensive baths, in even the smallest towns in their vast empire, where everyone could enjoy the benefits of massage.
Today, massage is commonly used by elite sports people, and is offered by wellness clinics. A course of massage treatments by a physiotherapist is especially useful because they understand your body, and can enhance its function.
Your physiotherapist may recommend a course of massage treatments to:
Reduce and manage pain, whether chronic, or caused by an injury or surgery.
Reduce stiffness. Tight muscles and joints can retard the healing process.
Improve your range of movement.
Physiotherapy massage helps to reduce and manage pain
When muscles tense, as they do when you’re in pain, it reduces blood flow: oxygen can’t get to your cells. Pain increases. This makes it harder for your body to heal. Massage encourages muscles to relax, reducing pain, and assisting with healing.
Your body responds well to massage. Research has shown that during massage, your body produces helpful chemicals like serotonin. This chemical not only improves your sense of wellbeing, but also enhances healing.
Massage assists healing:
After orthopeadic and other surgery. Not only can massage help to reduce pain, it also increases your range of movement, as well as minimizing damage caused during the healing process from adhesions and scarring.
By reducing the swelling of oedema, which may be the result of surgery, inflammation, or a trauma.
By reducing stress. Injury and trauma result in stress. This causes anxiety, which leads to further stress. Massage helps to break this cycle by helping your body’s nervous system to cope: your heart rate slows, and your body releases beneficial, healing hormones.
Enhance movement and mobility with physio massage
If you’re suffering chronic pain, or have recently had surgery, physiotherapy massage can help.
Over time, chronic pain reduces your range of movement. Joints and tendons tighten, restricting your flexibility.
Similarly with surgery. Massage helps your body to relax and heal. It gently manipulates your muscles and joints, increasing blood and oxygen flow to where it’s needed. You’ll move more easily, and your range of movement will increase.
Physio massage treatments we offer to improve your health
At Leap Healthcare, we offer several forms of beneficial massage.
They include:
Sports massage.
Deep tissue mobilisations.
Specific joint mobilisations.
Let’s explore two of these treatments.
Joint mobilisation: a physio treatment to help access improved range of motion
The goal of physiotherapy joint mobilisation is to reduce pain and stiffness, improve joint range of motion, increase strength and reduce muscle spasm.
This is a manual therapy technique that involves our physiotherapist using their hands to apply a series of gentle stretching movements to the joint to increase range of motion, decrease pain and improve joint function. In addition, it can improve circulation, reduce inflammation, and promote healing. Joint mobilisation can also help to reduce the risk of re-injury.
Patients typically report a range of benefits from this technique including decreased pain, improved joint range of motion, increased strength, improved balance and coordination, reduced muscle tension and improved overall joint health.
Sports massage relieves muscular tension and speeds recovery
Whatever your sport, training has effects. As you keep training, it becomes harder for your body to recover. Your muscles won’t relax: they stay tense. Waste products from your muscles, such as lactic acid, aren’t released. Over time, this leads to damage.
A sports massage from a physiotherapist improves the circulation of your vascular system, enhancing blood and lymphatic flow. Not only does this help your body to eliminate the waste products of strenuous exercise, it helps you to recover faster. In addition, massage enhances your flexibility, relieves stress, and increases your sense of wellbeing.You’ll usually need several treatments of this form of massage for complete relief, although the pain-relieving effects of your first treatment will last for several days.
Your physiotherapist is trained in this technique, and will recommend this process if they feel that you’ll benefit from it.
How do you access Leap Healthcare’s physio massage services?
You can access our physio massage services in various ways.
Your physiotherapist may suggest massage as part of your treatments. Or, you can request massage treatments if you’re stressed and in pain. Alternatively, you may be referred to us by a doctor, or a hospital.
Physio massage speeds healing, and is affordable
Physio massage services are affordable, and may be covered by your insurer, whether Medicare, TAC, or WorkCover.
If you’re referred, we bulk-bill, so there are no out-of-pocket expenses for you.
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