The main purpose of massage is to improve strength and increase flexibility, it is not often considered to heal sports injuries. Massage has an important role as a supplement to standard injury rehabilitation. Massage encourages better circulatory movement and relaxing muscles which help the body to pump more oxygen and nutrients into affected areas. This allows the rehabilitating injured areas to become more flexible and make the healing faster.

Massage can provide an opportunity to fasten the recovery of a sprained ankle, twisted knee, muscles spasms, and broken bones. The pressure that massage provides makes your muscles warm in which improves blood flow.

When athletes stretch and wear out their muscles, massage will help you flush out swelling in joints in which makes the recovery faster. Hamstring injuries, the result of stretching out tightness and loosening up, leaves a scar in the tissue that can be aid by massage. Some massages can suites for back, neck spasms, or nerve pain. Massage from a broken bone can eliminate the stiffness as well as can improve mobility.

Massage to an injury caused by being active not only reduces stiffness, or restores movement. It can also help you focus on healthy healing instead of soreness and anxiety. Massage therapy can be effective for a variety of conditions, including arthritis, lower back pain, insomnia, headaches, anxiety, circulatory problems, and recovery from a sports injury.

After exercise massage helps flush out waste products and stimulates the body's healing process. These waste products are toxins and lactic acids build-ups produced in the muscles during exercise which contributes towards delayed onset muscle soreness. It is the result of microscopic tearing of the muscle fibers, which leads to inflammation in the muscles and causes pain. Workout and exercise have psychological effects on the body. Massage after every activity decreases depression and anxiety. It also elevates mood and motivates the body to keep on doing exercise.