Sports Massage
Performance, Recovery & Movement Support
Sports Massage is a targeted, activity-specific bodywork session designed to support performance, reduce injury risk, and improve recovery for active individuals and athletes of all levels.
Unlike a general relaxation massage, Sports Massage focuses on the muscles, joints, and movement patterns most stressed by your sport or activity—helping your body move more efficiently and recover more effectively.
What to Expect
Each session is customized to your body and your activity level using a blend of:
- Deep, specific therapeutic techniques
- Myofascial release and compression
- Movement-informed assessment
- Activity-specific focus areas
Sessions may also include posture awareness, breathing cues, and corrective strategies to help changes last beyond the table.
Benefits of Shift Sports Massage
- Reduced muscle tension and post-activity soreness
- Improved range of motion and joint mobility
- Faster recovery between practices, games, or workouts
- Decreased risk of overuse and strain injuries
- Better posture, coordination, and movement efficiency
- Injury recovery even from checking, hits, muscle imbalances, post surgery
Specialty Focus Areas
Sports Massage sessions are tailored for the unique demands of:
- Dance & movement-based disciplines
Supporting fluidity, balance, control, and expressive movement - Hockey / Golf / Football / Soccer
Addressing hips, groin, low back, shoulders, and impact-related tension while supporting explosive strength, power and tissue resilience. - Pickleball & racquet sports
Focused care for shoulders, elbows, wrists, hips, and rotational patterns - Volleyball & wallyball
Targeting jumping mechanics, shoulder health, core stability, and repetitive overhead movements
Who This Is For
This service is ideal for:
- Competitive and recreational athletes
- Active adults and weekend warriors
- Overhead and rotational sport athletes
- Anyone who wants to stay strong, mobile, and pain-free while continuing to do what they love whether professional or post professional or weekend warrior
Sports Massage
Booking Your Initial Client Appointment is the first step.
After this you, can schedule your sports massage for anytime as a returning client.
In the First appointment, we cover history and your current goals, but also assess structure and movement patterns for muscle firing and joint movement. We observe visually and through touch, so that you can move as optimally in your sport of choice, whether it is weekend warrior – sand volleyball player, marathon runner, wallyballer, dancer or professional sports.
“Keeping clients of all ages moving towards their goals at this stage of life is my goal. Working on college athletes, it is surprising to see the number of ACL repairs that have already happened to these young athletes. Muscle imbalances can be a contributing factor in some cases.
I work with clients from pre-sporting events to muscle rehabilitation.”
