Sports massage in Laval

The way in. Therapeutic starts from the tension and works to undo it, wherever it came from. Sports starts from the movement you repeat and follows the chain it loads, which often means working areas where nothing hurt at all. Both use firm pressure and they overlap a great deal. What really separates them here is the practitioner: Hamza for sports, Isabelle for therapeutic, and she is the only one of the two who issues an insurance receipt. If your tension comes from ten hours in a chair rather than from training, go to her.

No, and this is the question we hear most. Sports massage is for anyone who asks their body for repeated effort, which includes the person who runs three times a week, the one who went back to the gym in January, and the one who climbs stairs all day at work. Repeated movement tires the same chains whether or not anyone is timing you. What shapes the session is the nature of your movement, not your level.

Two windows work, and they do not call for the same session. Three to five days out, we can work deep: the body has time to absorb it. The day or two before, the session stays light and looks for range without creating soreness. What to avoid is a first deep session forty-eight hours before something that matters, because you would meet your soreness at the worst moment. Tell us your date when you book, it changes how the hour is built.

Yes, often, and you should know before. It leaves purplish circles that stay from a few days to about a week and a half, without pain. They are not bruises in the sense of a knock, but they look like them. If you have a wedding, a photo shoot or a competition in a swimsuit coming up, say so and Hamza will work another way. Fragile skin, blood thinners or a tendency to bruise rule it out.

It is a stretch you do not do yourself. Hamza places the limb, holds the position and doses the tension, which lets you go past the point where your own stretching always stops, because you release instinctively before then. He usually alternates contraction and release to gain range. It helps when a movement catches without hurting, and it fits well alongside a massage inside the same ninety minutes.

It is common after deep work, especially the first time. The muscle was worked, a little like after unfamiliar training, and the feeling usually clears in a day or two. Drinking more and moving gently genuinely helps. What should get your attention is pain that is sharp rather than diffuse, sitting on one point, or lasting more than two or three days: the pressure was too much for your body that day.

No, he works by appointment and his days are not the same every week. His real openings show online, which is the simplest way to see when he is in rather than calling. If nothing works for you in the next few days, write to us: spots do open up.