The
decontracting massage is a type of massage whose purpose is to
relieve muscle contractures.
It is a form of manipulation designed and practiced for purposes that can be defined as therapeutic. Widely used in the sports field for easily understandable reasons, the decontracting massage involves the manipulation of specific areas depending on the area affected by the contracture. The latter, let us remember, is an involuntary, persistent, and painful contraction of one or more
skeletal muscles that become stiff with
hypertonia of the
muscle fibers that can be felt to the touch.