Therapeutic Massage

Muscular pain can be experienced in any part of the body. It can be a slow, aching, or gnawing pain, or sharp and intermittent, depending on what has happened to the body. The pain can be experienced as deep or superficial, and as time goes on, the quality changes as we compensate for the continuing pain.

We experience pain because the muscles have generally been overworked and stressed in some way. This could be due to repeated actions, holding awkward positions, fatigue, or because we have injured the muscles themselves through strain or in sports injuries.

Acute pains from sports injuries are often very sharp, tender to touch, and may have some inflammation and bruising. It may be hard to actually move the painful site, and that lack of movement begins to create tension in other parts of the body.

Chronic pain tends to be more dull, aching and continuous, and can soon affect our mood and ability to manage on a day-to-day basis. There will be variations on each person’s muscular pain depending on the cause, how the rest of the system has been compromised, and the length of time since the original injury.

As the muscles are put under stress they in turn stress the surrounding fascia, soft tissues, nerves and organs, so we can then develop what might seem like unrelated symptoms.

Massage works the muscles to increase the fluid exchange, and soften contracted muscles, as well as calming the whole body: