Massage & Sport Recovery
Looking for a relaxing time ? Sore muscles after training ? Preparing a competition ?
Sport & Relaxation Massage
At Functional Malta our experience treating regularly professional athletes helped us to build an optimised protocole to offer the most efficient sports recovery massage.
All our massages are done with the benefits of Tecar Therapy to enhance your recovery and boost your healing process.
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Sports massage is designed to release adherences and tensions in the soft tissues caused from repetitive physical activity.
Regular sports massage helps athletes to decrease their risk of injury by reducing the accumulation of muscular fatigue.
A sport massage is not adapted in treating a pain or an injury, this has to be assessed with an osteopathic treatment first.
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Relaxation massage will use different and more gentle techniques in order to help your body and mind to vent out your daily stress.
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Targeted areas: upper or lower back / whole body / legs
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3 different duration: 30, 60 or 90 minutes.
Tecar Therapy
Tecar therapy is the most used device in sport teams for sport recovery and injury management and prevention.
It's technology is mainly based on the production of heat: Tecar stimulates the production of heat within the human body in order to speed up the healing process.
Tecar enhances blood flow, promotes inflammation reduction that reduces pain and accelerates tissue repair.
Unlike other machines, such as laser therapy and infrared thermotherapy, which use heat from outside (exogenous), Tecar machines use endogenous heat).
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Tecar therapy is used as well during our massage selection for sports or relaxation.
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Targeted areas: whole body.
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Improve blood circulation
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Reduce inflammation
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Boost detoxification and metabolism
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Best for sport recovery
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Cryotherapy - Gameready
Cryotherapy treatment has been reported to reduce inflammation and swelling, relieve muscle pain and soreness (natural analgesia).
It is advised after an important training, competition or after a game to reduce fatigue, enhance recovery times and increase overall energy.
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We offer 2 choices of cryotherapy:
- Game Ready type treatment : localised cryotherapy + pressotherapy for ankle, knee, hamstring, thigh, arm, shoulder.
- Cryotherapy for whole legs.
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Targeted areas: whole body.
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Cryotherapy: between 0 and 8 degrees
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Improve blood circulation
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Reduce inflammation and muscular fatigue
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Boost detoxification and metabolism
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Ideal for sport recovery and pain management
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Passive Stretching Session
Passive stretching is being stretched by a trained therapist.
Passive stretching offers a deep stretch, targeted that can't be reached on your own due to muscles resistance and contraction during a self stretching session,
This full-body stretching session improves flexibility helps to maintain mobility and prevent injuries.
Feel free to guide your therapist to adjust the stretching intensity to your convenience.
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Passive stretching doesn't replace personal stretches that are advised to do daily.
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Targeted areas: whole body.
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Joints and muscles flexibility
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Reduce risk of injury
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Ideal for sport recovery
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Pressotherapy
Pressotherapy applies alternate compression through inflatable boots in order to boost fluids circulation towards the heart: enhancing blood flow and lymphatic drainage.
This type of procedure is ideal for muscle recovery and to reduce fatigue after training or a sports competition.
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Pressotherapy is used for water retention / lymphatic drainage / sport recovery / cellulite.
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Targeted areas: legs
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Reduce muscular fatigue and soreness
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Improve blood circulation and lymphatic drainage
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Enhance Detoxification and metabolism
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Sports recovery