DW Sports Therapy

About DW Sports Therapy

My name is David Whitelaw.

I have a massage therapy surgery in George Street, Lutterworth, Leicestershire.

I offer massage therapy to both ladies and gentlemen to provide relief for sport injuries. I also offer massage therapy for relief to injuries, or aches and pains not related to sport.
There is no age limit so if you are in pain please don't hesitate to give me a call.
Take a look at some of the services I offer and please feel free to email or call me to discuss your requirements.

I also offer home visits for clients who are unable to make their own way to my surgery.

I am 39 years old and have an extensive knowledge of Sports Injury and Massage Therapy. I have played When my sporting career came to an end I decided to train as a fully qualified massage and sports injury therapist.

Being a sportsman myself, I have experienced the pain caused by injuries whilst playing sport, and have dedicated myself to a career providing relief to others through the latest techniques in massage therapy.

What Are The Benefits of Sports Massage Therapy?

Sports massage has many benefits. In addition to feeling good, sports massage reduces the heart rate and blood pressure, increases blood circulation and lymph flow, reduces muscle tension, improves flexibility, and relieves pain. Each sport and athletic event uses muscle groups in a different way. Sports Massage can also include pre-event, post-event and maintenance techniques that promote greater athletic endurance and performance, lessen chances of injury and reduce recovery time. We also specialize in pregnancy massage and recommend treatment throughout the course of pregnancy for optimal results.

Deep Tissue Massage is a massage technique that focuses on the deeper layers of muscle tissue. It aims to release the chronic patterns of tension in the body through slow strokes and deep finger pressure on the contracted areas, either following or going across the fibres of the muscles, tendons and fascia.

Deep tissue massage is used to release chronic muscle tension through slower strokes and more direct deep pressure or friction applied across the grain of the muscles not with the grain. Deep tissue massage helps to break up and eliminate scar tissue. Deep tissue massage usually focuses on more specific areas and may cause some soreness during or right after the massage. However, if the massage is done correctly you should feel better than ever within a day or two.

Why get a Deep Tissue Massage?

It feels good and it is beneficial to your health. When muscles are stressed, they block oxygen and nutrients. This leads to inflammation that builds up toxins in the muscle tissue. A deep-tissue massage helps loosen muscle tissues, release toxins from muscles and get blood and oxygen circulating properly. Because many toxins are released, it's important to drink plenty of water after a deep-tissue session to help eliminate these toxins from the body.

What is the purpose of Deep Tissue Massage?

The purpose is to "unstick" the fibres of the muscle while releasing deeply held patterns of tension, removing toxins, while relaxing and soothing the muscle. It is both corrective and therapeutic.

What is a Trigger Point?

Trigger points are described as hyperirritable spots in muscle that are associated with palpable nodules in tight bands of muscle fibers. They usually develop due to a muscular overload and are actually the result of a local area of ischemia (blood loss). The palpable nodules are said to be small contraction knots and are a common cause of pain. Compression of a trigger point may elicit local tenderness, referred pain, or motor dysfunction. Scientists have mapped patterns of referral for trigger points throughout the body. For example, a trigger point palpated in the upper trapezius muscle can cause a referral pattern of pain to the temporal region of the head. Deep tissue massage is highly beneficial in the treatment of trigger points and often times can release trigger points almost instantaneously.

Trigger points can cause pain directly. Although a variety of stresses might predispose you to getting more trigger points, trigger points are quite capable of existing independently of any obvious underlying problem. In a sense, they are a natural and inevitable part of muscle tissue. Just as almost everyone gets some pimples, sooner or later almost everyone gets muscle knots.

Trigger points complicate injuries. Almost no matter what happens to you, you can count on trigger points to make it worse. They routinely form in response to injuries, or really any other kind of pain and dysfunction. As if that weren’t bad enough, in many cases they actually begin to overshadow the original problem. Argh.

Trigger points mimic other problems. Due to some of the weird but well-documented characteristics of trigger point pain, it is awfully easy for an unsuspecting doctor to mistake trigger point pain for … well, practically anything but a trigger point. For instance, trigger points are a much more common cause of pain than the more widely reported repetitive strain injuries (RSIs). And dozens of other scapegoats for which it is routinely mistaken.

Trigger points routinely complicate most injuries and often begin to overshadow the original problem.
Although mild and moderate muscle knots are easily treated, myofascial pain syndrome is completely unknown to many medical professionals, and unfamiliar to nearly all of them. Registered massage therapists often recognize and treat this condition because of our extensive hands-on experience — it is most easily diagnosed by feel. The handful of other health care professionals that recognize the clinical importance of trigger points often don’t actually know how to relieve them.

The daily clinical experience of thousands of massage therapists, physical therapists, and physicians strongly indicates that most of our common aches and pains — and many other puzzling physical complaints — are actually caused by trigger points, or small contraction knots, in the muscles of the body.