Explore Muscle Recovery Options from Sports Massage Therapist
by Wintergreen
Explosive muscle recovery!
Delayed onset muscle soreness (DOMS) is the stiffness and pain felt 24 to 48 hours after intense exercise.
For athletes, a combination of the products that reduce inflammation, increase circulation, and relax muscles can help improve recovery. Hot Mustard Soak and Magnesium Soak (The DOMS BOMB) is the perfect muscle recovery duo. It gives you double the recovery benefits in one bath.
Magnesium-based products, like Wintergreen’s Magnesium Soak, typically offer a blend pharmaceutical grade Magnesium Sulphate (Epsom salts) and Magnesium Chloride. Magnesium is one of seven key macro-minerals essential for muscle function, protecting the heart, stabilizing blood pressure and blood sugar, supporting bone health, and reducing symptoms of anxiety and depression.
Other high-quality ingredients like mustard seed powder, wintergreen oil, camphor and eucalyptus oil contain healing properties, and when used in a steaming hot bath can reduce inflammation and pain from strenuous activity, arthritis or colds and flu; improve circulation; relax the muscles and reduce congestion in the sinuses, nose and chest. Mustard seed powder creates the intense heat associated with mustard baths and causes the body to heat up from the inside. This makes it a fantastic detoxifier, with toxins sweated out as the body heats up.
Sports Massage Therapist, Daliah Hurwitz, says, “It can be hard initially to convince my rugby players and athletes who are more accustomed to showers, that a long, hot bath can help them recover from a tough match or training session, but once they have tried it and experienced the benefits, they are converts!.” She suggests products like Wintergreens Hot Mustard Soak and DOMS BOMB is a regular part of recovery and says “with regular use, there should be little to no muscle cramping during or after training or matches, and the effect of DOMS will be much improved.”
If you don’t have access to a bath, you can experience the same detoxing benefits just by soaking your feet in a tub of hot water.