Athletes use a variety of postexercise recovery techniques with the belief that they are
effective at enhancing return to competition and training. Common modalities include …

Background Post-exercise massage is one of the most frequently applied interventions to
enhance recovery of athletes. However, evidence to support the efficacy of massage for …

Background—Despite massage being widely used by athletes, little scientific evidence
exists to confirm the efficacy of massage for promoting both physiological and psychological …

Background: The effect of massage on recovery from high intensity exercise is debatable.
Many studies on massage suffer from methodological flaws such as poor standardisation of …

Objective: Sport massage, a manual therapy for muscle and soft tissue pain and weakness,
is a popular and widely used modality for recovery after intense exercise. Our objective is to …

Many coaches, athletes and sports medicine personnel hold the belief, based on
observations and experiences, that massage can provide several benefits to the body such …

Objectives: Massage is widely used by the athletic population for a variety of purposes such
as injury prevention, recovery from fatigue, relaxation, and to increase performance. This …

Objective Massage is ubiquitous in elite sport and increasingly common at amateur level but
the evidence base for this intervention has not been reviewed systematically. We therefore …

The science of sports massage is ofinterest to many populations including athletes, athletic
trainers, coaches, as well as sports physiologists. While evidence to support or refute the …

Massage has often been highlighted as a modality for potentially enhancing psychological
regeneration during intense training. Despite numerous anecdotal testimonies to its efficacy …