MyoMedic

Massage can aid in recovery or add fatigue based on the treatment you receive.
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Aggressive massage treatments can disrupt physiological systems, mostly by creating some muscle damage. Sometimes this is necessary for the treatment of injuries.
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If you’re trying to rehab an injury the additional fatigue might be necessary in the short term so that you can return to optimal training.
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Less aggressive treatments can aid in recovery by temporarily increasing blood flow to target tissues. The degree of magnitude in which this aids in recovery needs more research before making definitive claims.
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It has been shown in research that massage therapy and physical touch can increase the parasympathetic response. Anytime we can enter a state of deeper relaxation our recovery systems can do their job more efficiently. This is more of an indirect recovery tactic.
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If you’re in a period of over reaching, whether intentional or unintentional, a less aggressive massage treatment would serve you better to help manage some of the accumulated fatigue from hard training.
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Now you understand why taking exercise programming into consideration for massage treatments is important.