Sports Massage Issue
The borders of massage as a healing and relaxing method are broadening eventually. In spite of the fact that women for a  long time has pretended to be more regular massage therapists' clients, statistics assure that a third of the massage parlor visitors are men. Beside its therapeutic and cosmetic role, massage is an important part of the medical and sport therapy. That it is why it is impossible to neglect sports massage as a dominative preventive and therapeutic procedure in every sportsman's schedule.

The specific features of sports massage are completed in its technique. The sport massage therapists assure that a good sports massage session is to include influence on the deep tissues for those sportsmen who had experienced injuries. In such a way, sports massage involves post-event techniques to relieve pain and fasten recovering. In this case, a therapist is to apply pressure on muscles. As such kind of massage is considered to be passive gymnastics, it is characterized by soaring tissues and muscles for a day or two. Deep tissue massage can be applied in two ways: moderate and hard, depending on the purposes and sportsman's condition.

Preventive measures are provided through sports massage in order to prepare a sportsman to his or her performance, peak load, to limit muscles and tissues tension, relax muscles, provide flexibility, get away fatigue, and, of course, to prevent injuries and traumas. In addition, sports massage allows determining what condition of an athlete is and applying that kind of massage he or she needs most of all to stay in good sport condition.

Sports massage is often applied along with progressive and ancient massages like Asian massage, Shiatsu, Thai massage, acupressure or acupuncture in order to increase its preventive and healing capabilities.