Manual Therapy
Massage adapted to an active person’s training, event timing, recovery needs, and current tissue tolerance.
Goal-specific massage for active bodies, shaped by timing and individual context rather than athletic stereotypes.
Browse all techniques
One tool within an individualized session.
Sports massage is massage planned around physical activity, training load, competition timing, or a particular movement goal. It may draw from several techniques rather than representing one fixed set of strokes.
The approach is adapted to the person and context rather than applied as a fixed formula.
From technique to session
A few ways this approach could fit your care. These sessions are starting points, and techniques can be considered across any session. Together, we choose what fits your preferences, your needs that day, and your practitioner’s training.
Tend
Bodywork adapted to your stage of injury recovery, with attention to current limitations, surrounding areas, and the demands of returning to activities that matter to you.
$150
60 min
$225
90 min
$300
120 min
$450
180 min
Tend
Focused massage for muscle tension, stiffness, and the demands of everyday activity. Choose the areas that need attention, with pressure and movement shaped around you.
$150
60 min
$225
90 min
$300
120 min
$450
180 min
Tend
Focused care for tension around the head, neck, shoulders, and upper back. Detailed bodywork and comfortable movement, shaped around the areas that need attention.
$150
60 min
$225
90 min
$300
120 min
$450
180 min
A closer look
A session may emphasize a region used in training, adjust pace and pressure to the timing before or after activity, and include comfortable movement. The plan should reflect the person’s current condition rather than a generic athletic protocol.
The pace, pressure, position, and duration are adjusted through ongoing consent and feedback.
The work can be focused or broad, gentle or moderately firm. More intensity is not inherently more effective, especially close to an event or after heavy training.
The work can be paused, changed, or stopped at any time.
It may be used for short-term comfort, body awareness, or recovery routines. Massage should not be promised to prevent injury, remove lactic acid, speed tissue healing, or improve performance.
Responses vary. This information is educational and does not replace medical assessment or care.
Thoughtful care
Acute injury, suspected fracture, severe swelling, infection, heat illness, concussion symptoms, suspected blood clot, or inability to bear weight requires appropriate medical assessment. Event timing, hydration, medications, and training fatigue may call for lighter or deferred work.
When symptoms are new, severe, unexplained, or changing quickly, medical evaluation comes before massage.
This page is educational and does not diagnose, treat, or replace medical care. Research and individual responses vary across manual therapy approaches.
Wild Hart uses this technique only within current training, legal scope, informed consent, and the needs of the session.
