Service
Sports Massage
For tight, overworked or recovering muscles. Whether you're training hard, sitting at a desk all day, or easing back after injury, sports massage aims to relieve tension, support recovery and help you move more freely. It works well on its own or alongside your wider rehab.
At a glance
Deep tissue focus
Targeted work on tight, overworked muscles.
Eases tension
Helps relieve tightness and support recovery.
On its own or with rehab
Fits your training or wider treatment plan.
Despite the name, our massage service at Physioflexx Falkirk is not just for “sports” people. It is a targeted, hands-on treatment designed to relieve deep-seated muscular tension, improve flexibility, and support faster recovery, whether you’re an athlete managing training load, recovering from injury, or simply carrying everyday tightness and stress in your muscles.
Using deep tissue techniques, we work to release tension at its source, improve circulation, and restore normal movement to overworked or restricted muscles. This makes it an effective option both proactively, as part of a regular training or recovery routine, and reactively, to address discomfort before it develops into a more significant problem.
Sports massage is suited to anyone with persistent muscular discomfort, tightness related to training or repetitive activity, or those in the process of rehabilitating an injury. It pairs well with our physiotherapy service, forming part of a broader, personalised treatment plan when needed.
As with all our treatments, we take the time to understand what’s going on before we begin, so the massage is targeted to your specific areas of tension rather than generic, and you’ll always know why we’re treating what we’re treating.
When it may not be suitable
- Acute injury with significant swelling or inflammation (within 48 to 72 hours)
- Fever or acute infectious illness
- Deep vein thrombosis (DVT) or suspected blood clots
- Unhealed wounds, skin infections, or open cuts in the treatment area
- Recent fractures or unstable joints
- Severe varicose veins (direct treatment over the area)
- Certain skin conditions (e.g. active rashes, cellulitis) in the treatment area
- Uncontrolled cardiovascular conditions
- Cancer (in some cases, particularly direct treatment near affected areas; medical clearance may be required)
- Pregnancy (some techniques and positions may need to be adapted, always disclose pregnancy beforehand)
- Recent surgery in the area being treated