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• Tips for treating muscle pain
If you want to know the difference between a sports massage and a regular massage, you can scour the internet for ever. You will find sports masseurs making snide jokes about candles and whale music, and regular masseurs reminding the world that you don’t need to wear Lycra to understand anatomy. It wasn’t until I spoke to Kate Kahle, a sports massage therapist for 25 years, that I really understood. “Sports massage usually just targets a specific issue,” she said. “A regular massage will be the whole body. So a client might come in with shoulder problems, and as well as looking at the part that’s hurting, I look for the connections too.” In other words: regular massage makes you feel relaxed; sports massage stops things hurting.
I have never been interested in massage: I’ve always taken the opportunity to go immediately to sleep, missed the fabled benefits, then jolted into consciousness at 50 minutes, startled and a bit ashamed, wondering what he or she had to do to wake me up.
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