When you have 5 massage therapists working on you at the one time, that is when you have made it to the elite level. If you are not Cristiano Ronaldo and wondering 'what is the next best thing?' The answer is Self Myofascial Release (SMFR) or self massage and its FREE!
A back injury is debilitating both physically and mentally and it may not come as a surprise when I say it is one of the most common injuries in sport.
Many sports often require the athlete to perform an explosive jump during game play (i.e. think basketball or volleyball). Ultimately, this leads to many athletes training to improve their ability to actually jump higher or further. Fair enough, who doesn't want to be able to rock the rim and dunk it? However, how many of these athletes actually seek to improve their ability to land from a jump, hop or bound? Not many, if any.
