Healing Muscle Strains Quickly with Tui Na Massage Therapy
Tui Na Massage is an excellent sports massage technique for recovering from strenuous exercise and hard physical training in martial arts or any other sport. It can be used immediately after a workout, injury, or strain. Effective Tui Na Massage therapy can potentially reduce the severity of injuries when applied promptly before cooling off or leaving.
Benefits of Tui Na Massage:
- Can help turn a sprain into a strain, or a strain into normal muscle soreness
- Provides significant benefits with relatively brief treatment
- Allows instructors, coaches, family members, or teammates to offer immediate and effective help
- Builds trust and deepens friendships through direct assistance
Effective Techniques for Pulled or Strained Muscles:
- Smoothing
- Dredging
- Rolling (my personal favorite)
While “Smoothing” and “Dredging” are great for pulled or strained muscles, Rolling is particularly effective. It’s a skillful technique that requires considerable practice to master. However, even when performed by a beginner, Rolling feels wonderful, making it easy to find willing practice partners.
Rolling harmonizes Blood and Qi, which has a marvelous effect on soothing strained muscles, reducing inflammation, and preventing stagnation and bruising. It’s important to note that for torn muscles, a period of quiet rest with minimal movement is necessary for quick healing.
Here are four useful tips to assist your speedy and full recovery:
Using the proper lineaments or poultices can also speed recovery. This can be as simple as using the correct product for self-massage after strenuous exercise or sparring when you detect a need. It can also be helpful as a coach or an instructor responding to the needs of students during or after training. Some people will carry a bottle or two along whenever they got to training or practice. “Zheng Gu Shui” is a great choice.
Tip #2
L-Glutamine is an amino acid that your body will use to repair injured muscles with. You can buy in capsules or tablets. Taking L-glutamine after a strenuous workout will speed your recovery and help you build muscle mass. If you have an injury glutamine will help it to heal faster and more completely.
Taking other supplements when you have a pulled muscle like all electrolytes like Magnesium, potassium, and calcium will help recovery as will vitamin C. For inflammation and swelling Quercetin (from thistle plants) and Bromelain (from pineapple) supplements are wonderfully effective.
Tip #4
Rest. Rest is a priority. Do not move the torn muscle. Even a little. Just leave the torn muscle or joint alone. You need to rest and the sooner you do totally rest the sooner the injury will heal. Big mistake is return to work too soon. Just keep resting it with no activity, no stretching, no pulling, no contracting.