Raw Therapy - Sports Massage Therapy and Sports Rehabilitation

Rebekah Qualified with a Diploma in Sports Massage Therapy & Personal Training in December 2004. Three weeks later she was thrown in at the deep end as a therapist with a local football club! Starting from the very bottom she worked her way up the ladder to open her own clinic, and be involved with premiership football club Tottenham Hotspur, and most recently Chelsea Football Club.

Although a lot of her work has been involved with teams, she has maintained a busy clinic based portfolio, for almost every muscular ache & pain through to injury rehabilitation, using manual therapy, MET (Muscular Energy Techniques) & PNF stretching and prescriptive exercise.

Based in Brighton & Hove makes RAW therapy easily accessible, and if required (by appointment only) can carry out home visits.

I will commit to work with you to repair/rehabilitate an injury in a focused manner. Our joint objective will be to achieve optimum fitness, by way of sports massage therapy & supporting professional advice, in as short a time as possible.

Beneficial for everyone, sports massage therapy is a systematic manipulation of the soft tissues of the body that focuses on muscles both in general and when relevant for a particular sport.

Numerous different movements and techniques are used in sports massage, examples include; effleurage (stroking), petrissage (kneading), compression, friction, tapotement (rhythmic striking), stretching, and trigger points.

These movements and techniques are used to try and help the athlete's body achieve maximum performance and physical conditioning with a decreased chance of injury or pain and a quicker recovery.

Many benefits from sports massage have been reported based on experience and observation, some benefits are to the mind (psychological) and some are to the body (physiological). Possible side effects of sports massage are tenderness or stiffness for 1 to 2 days after the massage, but for the most part, sports massage is safe.

Some of the reported benefits include:

• Increased blood flow
• Increased joint range of motion
• Increased flexibility/boost performance
• Increased elimination of exercise waste products (lactic acid)
• Increased sense of well-being/maintain better condition of the body
• Decreased muscle tension
• Decreased neurological excitability (nerves more relaxed)
• Decreased chance of injury
• Decreased recovery time between workouts & training
• Decreased muscle spasms

RAW therapy can assist you with injury or complaint with: