Avoiding Muscular and Low Back Injury
One of the most important things I believe, in keeping yourself fit and healthy is to actually try and avoid muscular injury in the first place. If you are a sportsperson or even just wanting to lead a fairly active life, you should be doing your utmost to avoid getting injured in the first place. This is because rehabilitating an injury is so much harder than avoiding one and an injured muscle is much more likely to get injured again in the future.
How then do you prevent injury? Well, firstly prepare. If you are taking up a new sport or going back to one you enjoy after a break. Even doing a weekend of heavy gardening. Spend some time getting into shape – or better still, make sure you are always in good shape. A fit body will perform better at all tasks.
Keep your core muscles strong, keep your legs strong and flexible, make sure your glutes work properly – your massage therapist can help you with all these things. A good remedial massage therapist can tell you if your glutes fire properly and what to do if they don’t. Your glutes are the powerhouse of your body. Your stability and strength in movement come from your glutes, it is important that they work properly. I have encountered people actually exercising their glutes but it being a complete waste of time because only their hamstrings were doing the work – and this is not rare! Lots of you don’t actually use your glutes to power you.
Having remedial massage will help to identify where your problems are, it can uncover things which you didn’t even know were a problem and things which are going to cause you mobility issues as you get older. A remedial massage therapist can offer advice on strengthening and stretching, which exercises to do and which muscles are weak. The bonus is you will also get trouble spots ironed out and you will feel very good afterwards. Deep soft tissue massage of the type offered by remedial massage therapists will help to ease out muscular pain and tension and leave you feeling like you have a new body.