Recovery Works is a massage and sports therapy clinic designed to help you stay in optimal condition to pursue your busy lifestyle.
SERVICES
Welcome to Recovery Works Massage
Whether you have a demanding job, participate in elite level sport or train really hard to stay in shape, we’re here to ensure that you Recover quickly from the daily demands you place on your body!
The real benefit from training hard is Recovery! That’s right, during your body’s down-time you recover from and adapt to your new levels of training. This is actualy when your body repairs itself and makes your fitness gains. This is your window of opportunity to ensure your maximise your training efforts!
We offer remedial and sports massage services to make sure you bounce back to your best quickly. We offer flexibility and mobility sessions to ensure that your body is aligned and prepared to deal with the stresses you subject it to.
Services
Recovery Works provides a range of services to help keep your body finely tuned for the demands you place on it.
We subject our bodies to range of stressors on a daily basis- Work related stress – overuse syndromes from sitting down infront or a PC, or repetitive manual handling
- Training related stress – regular physical activity, running, weights, fitness classes, competitive sport
- Psychological stress – unavoidable stress from demanding jobs and family commitments
Massage is a proven soft tissue therapy that can assist in alleviating many of the conditions that come about as a result of our current lifestyle. At Recovery Works we specialise in- Remedial Massage
- Sports Massage
Additionally, as Sports Specialist we offer a range of services to emerging athletes in all sports- Sports Conditioning – Speed & Agility; Functional Training
- Assessment – Body Composition, Flexibility, Mobility
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Remedial Massage
Do you have a specific area of soreness?Lower back pain?
Sore Shoulders?
Sore muscles from Training? Remedial Massage is a widely used deep tissue massage technique that assists your body’s return to optimal health after overuse or injury. It can be used to treat strains, sprains, bruising, any injury where the skin is intact. Deep tissue remedial massage helps to remove blockages, scar tissue and adhesions left after overuse & injury, speeds up recovery and encourages more complete healing. Remedial Massage is also used for conditions created by lifestyle for example Lower Back Pain, Neck Pain and Shoulder Pain.
At Recovery Works we offer 60 minute Remedial Massage Treatments
60 minute Remedial Massage – $70 (Anytime Fitness & Savvy Members only $60!)
Call (02) 4228 5222 for a booking or make an enquiry
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Sports Massage
Are you a sports enthusiast and do you engage in regular training?
Any form of training is a “stress” that is placed on your body. Your body responds to this “stress” by adapting to it…i.e., it learns to cope with that stress by improving. This is called a training effect – or adaptation. Your training effect actually happens when you are resting, not training! So it makes sense that you should prioritise your rest/recovery as much as you do your training!
Sports Massage is one of the most effective recovery techniques you can adopt to ensure that you can perform at the highest level and help prevent injury. Whether you compete in an individual sport, team sport, participate in regular fitness classes or workout in the weights room, Sports Massage can be of benefit to you.
Sports massage helps to reduce pain from sore muscles; increase range of motion (ROM); reduce or eliminate soft tissue inflammation; assist with relaxation; improve contractile and non-contractile tissue repair and facilitate free movement. Underlying Sports Massage are the disciplines of biomechnics, exercise physiology and functional anatomy to understand your sport’s demands and apply soft tissue techniques optimally.
List of clients our therapists have worked withAHM Wollongong Hawks
St George Illawarra Dragons
Rob Hurley – Australian Dolphons 1500m swimmer
Ben Allen – International Traithlete
Russell Dessaix-Chin – International Runner
Scott Endurance Triathletes
Illawarra Stingrays Football Club
Call (02) 4228 5222 for a booking or make an enquiry
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High Performance Unit
Recovery Works HPU is designed to assist athletes reach their potential through a considered, supportive approach to training. The team at RWHPU will assist you in the design of functional strength, speed and agility programs that compliment your current training workload, and provide you the skills to be your very best.
Regardless of where you are right now in your sporting career, there are some fundamental training principles that are crucial to getting the most out of the efforts you put into your training sessions.
As an athlete, you bring your unique physiological and psychological attributes to your sport, hoping for success. These attributes form the basis of strategies which you need to utilise to achieve a desired level of performance. Some components which form these strategies are factors such as body mass, height, muscle fibre type as well as genetic inheritance.
These factors, combined with skill acquisition and training, as well as how you integrate them may influence the degree of your success on the field.
Sports performance factors are complex, consisting of:
Power; Strength; Speed; Agility; Coordination; Quickness; Flexibility; Local muscular endurance; Cardiovascular capacity; Endurance
Maximising your athletic potential requires exposure to significant training loads. Combining the sports performance factors listed above with technical skills and tactical awareness training becomes incredibly complex and meticulous planning is crucial for you to avoid overtraining, poor recovery, detraining and, even worse, injury.
Getting it right the first time is critical, not only for on field success, but also for your health and well-being.
Valter di Salvo, director at Real Madrid Performance Centre notes ‘look after your assets….studies reveal there is a 4% chance of injury in every 1000 minutes of training….to determine the risk a player is facing we look at how many minutes he’s played, how much he’s trained and how much he’s run’ (Leaders in Performance Conference, 2009).
You are an asset not only to your club or sport, but to yourself.
Contact us to help you get it right.
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Physical Assessment
Body Composition
Need to know whether your training is having the desired results for your fat loss and muscle development?
Recovery Works now offers a Body Composition assessment service. We can measure your skinfolds and girths using international standard protocols and best practice equipment. Our clinic uses Harpenden Skinfold calipers and steel tape measures to accurately assess:The sum of 8 of your skinfolds
Your girths at your chest, arm, waist, hips, thigh and calf
Our clinicians have over 10 years experience in accurately measuring skinfolds and the reliability of measures is ensured from test to test.
Skinfold & girth assessment – $35
Call (02) 4228 5222 for a booking or make an enquiry
Our Therapists and Coaches
Carl Jacobs - Therapist & Coach
BHlthSc. DipRM, Cert IV Massage, Level 2 ASCA
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Angela Laughton - Therapist
Diploma Remedial Massage (TAFE NSW)
Cert. IV Massage
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Lauren Carter - Therapist
Diploma Remedial Massage (TAFE NSW)
Cert. IV Massage
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Geoff Smith - Therapist
Diploma Remedial Massage 2009, Workcover qualified 2010
Cert. Chinese Cupping 2007
Senior 1st Aid, Advanced Resuscitation
Smart Rugby 2010
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Grant Hughes - Fitness Coach
Bachelor of Education (PDHPE) (UOW)
QUALIFICATION DETAILS
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Connective Tissue Massage, Corporate Massage, Deep Tissue Massage, Mens Health, Mobile Service Massage, Myofascial Release Therapy, Myopractic, Pregnancy Massage, Remedial Massage, Sports Injury Therapy, Sports Massage, Swedish Relaxation Massage, Trigger Point Therapy
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