Percussion Therapy

The simple answer: because of the many potential benefits! Percussion therapy may help:

• Support the recovery of your muscles
• Ease feelings of muscle fatigue, soreness, tension, and stiffness
• Encourage circulation to your muscles after a tough workout
• Work out tight, tender knots

While those are the main potential benefits, and all you really need to know, there are plenty of other reasons to try our percussion therapy, including the fact that it is just plain relaxing!

Percussion will feel like a combination of having a massager vibrating on your skin and someone pressing their fingers into your muscles to manually massage them. The best of both!

If your muscles are tight or have knots in them, these areas will ache as the tool works on them, just like it would if you use anything else to ease the tightness. However, as the ache passes, you may feel much more relaxed by the end of your session.

Our Recovery Specialists will freely talk with you about what your goals are, what muscles you might already have issues with, and other important details before sharing with you what you can realistically expect from percussion therapy.

Though even just one percussion therapy can be quite effective, it is not a miracle. If your workout was particularly intense, you will still be a bit stiff the next day even if you have a session.

Percussion therapy can be used pre-workout or post-workout; both have advantages.

To avoid injuring your muscles, we know you really need to warm them up before your workout. This is particularly true if you’ve had a recent muscle strain or injury you’re worried about getting reinjured. In this case, percussion may help warm up your muscles and loosen up the tight ones as part of your injury-prevention routine.

Post-workout is when we know you’ll be the most likely to have knots and when stiffness will start creeping up on you. Here, percussion may help work out knots and ease some of that stiffness, so you're less likely to feel like a board the next day.

The percussion tool will mostly be used on your larger muscles and any areas that feel tight.

Where it isn’t used is the bony areas of your body like the front of your shins, as this would be painful because there isn’t anything really there to cushion your bone from the percussion tool.