22/03/2026
What this demonstrates:
• Sports massage can:
• Reduce muscle soreness faster
• Improve circulation
• Speed up removal of waste products (like lactic acid)
• This leads to athletes returning to peak performance sooner.
• Pulled muscle (with massage) → recovers faster
• Pulled muscle (without massage) → slower healing
• These start off recovering more slowly than normal soreness, showing that:
• Pulled muscles take longer to heal
• Massage still speeds up recovery significantly