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Sports massage, often confused with deep tissue massage, is a therapy which is mainly used to help maintain an individual’s health and optimises the body’s performance. It is a massage therapy which focuses on overused areas of your body due to either overuse or aggressive movements from sports.

Price – $180

What is Sports Massage?

Sports massage, often confused with deep tissue massage, is a therapy which is frequently used in sports injury treatment to help maintain an individual’s flexibility and optimizes the body’s performance. It is a massage therapy which focuses on overused areas of your body due to either overuse or aggressive movements from sports. It is commonly used as sports injury treatment and recovery massage for athletes to help in muscle fatigue and soreness, joint pain and injury prevention.

How We Approach Sports Massage at Elevate

Every session starts with a short physiotherapy assessment, even for returning patients — we check your current complaint, training load and treatment goals before choosing technique or pressure. Depending on what we find, treatment may combine deep tissue work on chronically tight muscle groups, myofascial release for restricted fascia, and trigger point therapy for localised pain — often paired with dry needling when a trigger point doesn’t respond to manual pressure alone.

Who This Helps

● Post-exercise muscle soreness (DOMS) after intense training or competition
● Muscle strains, ligament sprains and overuse injuries alongside a broader sports injury programme
● Chronic neck, shoulder and upper back tightness from desk work or driving

Sessions run 45-60 minutes at $160, with a short course of 4-6 sessions typically recommended for an active issue. Accessible from Kovan and Hougang MRT.

What do you expect during Sports Massage?

You will always receive your massage from a trained and experienced sports massage therapist. Our therapists always listen carefully to your needs and concerns, and then tailor a customized sports massage to relax you as well as increase your body function and sports performance. During the sports massage, you may feel some discomfort when our therapist is working on releasing the muscle tension. You may also feel some muscle soreness after the session, but it will disappear in a couple of days.

Clinical sports massage is a physiotherapy-led treatment that uses deep tissue, myofascial and trigger point techniques to address specific musculoskeletal conditions — including sports injuries, chronic muscle tightness and movement limitations. Unlike a relaxation massage, it is performed by qualified physiotherapists following a clinical assessment, and is targeted at achieving a defined therapeutic outcome rather than general stress relief.

Sports massage sessions at Elevate Physiotherapy are priced at $160 per session. Each session includes a brief physiotherapy assessment to ensure treatment is appropriately tailored. We recommend an initial course of 4–6 sessions for best results, with reassessment at the end of the course.

Yes. Sports massage is an effective component of a broader sports injury rehabilitation programme. It helps reduce muscle guarding around injured tissue, improves local circulation, reduces adhesion formation and accelerates the early stages of soft tissue healing. At Elevate, sports massage for injury is always combined with targeted exercise therapy and physiotherapy assessment.

This depends on your condition and goals. For active injury management, we typically recommend 1–2 sessions per week in the initial phase, tapering to monthly maintenance once the condition stabilises. For performance maintenance and injury prevention, a monthly session is generally sufficient. Your physiotherapist will advise a specific schedule after your initial assessment.

Some discomfort is normal, particularly when working on deep muscles or active trigger points. Physiotherapists describe this as a “productive discomfort” — an intensity that is therapeutic but manageable. You should always communicate with your therapist about pressure levels throughout the session. Post-session soreness lasting 24–48 hours is also common, particularly after a first session.

This depends on the nature and stage of the injury. Sports massage is generally not recommended directly over an acute injury site within the first 24–72 hours of injury due to the inflammatory phase. However, massage to surrounding muscles and regions can still be beneficial during this period. Your physiotherapist will assess your injury and determine whether massage is appropriate at your stage of recovery.