Welcome to Sports Massage, LLC!
Facilitating your Healing
Marathoners, cyclists, triathletes and anyone who hurts all come to our small office looking for relief. They seek optimal muscle performance, but are deterred by old sports injuries and chronic pain. They can’t sleep because they’re worried about not being able to do what they love. But thankfully, they and You are in the right place.
Sports Massage, LLC can help you run faster, pedal harder, or tolerate the conditions of work life pain-free by using your muscles effectively. That way, minor injuries heal quickly, and more painful episodes are prevented. Whether you’re an athlete of any sport or just want to feel better in your body, we’ll teach you how to avoid common problems and solve minor aggravations so you can focus on playing instead of going to appointments.
The goal at Sports Massage, LLC is to
- Help you function without pain,
- Get you back to doing the activities you love,
- Perform at your highest level,
- Prevent injury and shorten the time needed to recover,
- Address all holding patterns, not just symptoms.
We do this through educating you about your body’s healing processes and finding the right techniques for your body that improve long-term health.
Even clients who have been suffering for years, or seen countless specialists, have benefited from our sports massage. Many of our clients experience significant pain relief in 3-5 sessions. Many see the benefits of regular maintenance massage that keep them at the top of their age group. You don’t have to put up with pain; you can learn what it is trying to tell you to improve your game for life!
Sports Massage, LLC offers massage by knowledgeable experts who:
- Work deep and specific,
- Target muscle overuse,
- Focus on the full body,
- Have evening and Saturday hours.
Sure, you might get through training with your usual aches and pain, but why suffer? We can help you perform better. Call the number above to schedule your appointment!
We improve our clients’ physical wellness through preventative, rehabilitative, and maintenance techniques commonly used by sport support staff.
Sports Massage, LLC
Shari Darman, LMT #4452 • 505 585 1335 • 1400 Carlisle Blvd. NE Albuquerque, NM 87110
-Your body was meant to move every 15 minutes. It was meant to walk or run, not
to sit for lengthy periods of time. Therefore, there is an imbalance between muscles
that work too much and their opposites that are working not enough.
-Bigger muscles often are overdeveloped in sports (for example, the quadriceps) for
strength and power. Without balancing the intrinsic muscles (i.e., the psoas), the
bigger muscles can take on too much work and burn out.
-Pain is your body’s way of communicating something is not right. By silencing pain
through over-medication, we lose the opportunity to find out the source the problem,
and allow the problem to spread into other areas of dysfunction through compensation.
-Stretching and strengthening balance and tone muscles so they’re healthy.
During athletic activity, the muscles contract; especially important after activity, stretching
allows the muscle to reset to its normal resting state to continue its workload.
-Massage lengthens muscle tissue more than stretching alone.
-Ice is your friend. No more than 20 minutes at a time, 3-4 times a day for acute injuries or pain.
-Fighting against gravity plays a huge role in our muscles that keep our upright
posture. They are designed to work efficiently at perfect posture, and are required
to do lots of unnecessary work if we have a forward head leaning posture.
All these benefits can help the non-athlete as much as the athlete. Choose Sports Massage, LLC to reduce your pain, and bring more ease and fluidity to your life.
Sports Massage, LLC facilitates the body's healing through numerous techniques aimed at improving long-term health.
About Us
EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE:
As owner of Sports Massage, LLC, I’ve been enjoying my own massage practice in Albuquerque for 20 years (since 2004).
What makes me different from most massage therapists?
- While my work is detailed and specific, I focus on your entire body’s neuromuscular connections. This methodology addresses the cause of the problem, not just the pain symptoms, so you’re less likely to reinjure the site.
- My education was extensive so a lot of my knowledge, techniques and style are unknown to therapists here.
- I know how to combine delicacy and respect for the human body with high impact results on your long-term healing.
- Having completed my massage training at the Utah College of Massage Therapy in Salt Lake City in ’02, I immediately went on to study in a three month Clinical post-graduate program, totaling my credit hours to 1152 (at the time, this was more than double the NM license requirements). From there I worked in Vail, CO for a year before I came to Albuquerque. I’ve worked on former Olympians, Olympic hopefuls, entertainers, and professional athletes but what I find most rewarding is helping you discover how amazing your body can be. My intent is to align the body’s structure to be in harmony with gravity. It is a (mostly relaxing) full massage that focuses on specific problematic areas, as well as finding sites predisposed to injury so you avoid losing time away from life.
PERSONAL:
My personal favorite sports include soccer, skiing, roller blading, rock climbing, and mountain biking. I am also a private yoga and qi gong instructor.
Shari Darman, LMT
My goal is to help people with pain management, tension reduction, stress relief, injury recovery, and general self-care practices. Through my time as an athlete, I understand the physical and emotional toll that pain and injury have on the body. I strive to help my clients through their unique healing journey by providing deep work on problem areas, as well as facilitating balance and awareness of the body to create long-lasting improvements.
What makes me unique as a massage therapist is that I have an extensive knowledge of anatomy and kinesiology from studying exercise science and pre-med. My passion in my practice is utilizing energy work while keeping an anatomical focus to synchronize muscle groups and improve overall alignment of the body. The techniques I utilize include:
- Swedish Massage
- Deep Tissue
- Sports Massage
- Trigger Point Therapy
- Myofascial Release
- Polarity
- Craniosacral Therapy
- Mobility Stretches
- Reflexology
Brianna Inman, LMT
MODALITIES:
- Russian Sports Massage
- Deep Tissue
- Neuromuscular Therapy
- Myofascial Release
- Cranial Sacral
- Lymphatic Drainage
- ROM and Active Stretching
Others occasionally needed include:
- Trigger Point
- Orthopedic Massage
- Facilitated Stretching
- Structural Integration
- Thai massage
- Shiatsu
- Prenatal
- Acupressure
- Foot Reflexology
- Visceral Manipulation
Being an athlete my whole life, I’ve gained great reverence for the body and its processes. All those lifelong injuries and rehabilitation experiences taught me the importance of using the body efficiently and effectively. I now recognize the mental and physical problems shared by all athletes and our lack of understanding on how the body works together. If you’re looking for a massage therapist who understands what the body needs to heal itself, I can help facilitate your healing.
Tell us what areas you want to improve in your body on the Contact page!
-Your body was meant to move every 15 minutes. It was meant to walk or run, not
to sit for lengthy periods of time. Therefore, there is an imbalance between muscles
that work too much and their opposites that are working not enough.
-Bigger muscles often are overdeveloped in sports (for example, the quadriceps) for
strength and power. Without balancing the intrinsic muscles (i.e., the psoas), the
bigger muscles can take on too much work and burn out.
-Pain is your body’s way of communicating something is not right. By silencing pain
through over-medication, we lose the opportunity to find out the source the problem,
and allow the problem to spread into other areas of dysfunction through compensation.
-Stretching and strengthening balance and tone muscles so they’re healthy.
During athletic activity, the muscles contract; especially important after activity, stretching
allows the muscle to reset to its normal resting state to continue its workload.
-Massage lengthens muscle tissue more than stretching alone.
-Ice is your friend. No more than 20 minutes at a time, 3-4 times a day for acute injuries or pain.
-Fighting against gravity plays a huge role in our muscles that keep our upright
posture. They are designed to work efficiently at perfect posture, and are required
to do lots of unnecessary work if we have a forward head leaning posture.
Educating clients about their bodies in a simplistic way allows them more independence and motivation to take care of themselves.
You don’t have to be an athlete to need a Sports massage. It is a health necessity for all!
Why get a sports massage?
Sports massage is different from your basic (or therapeutic, Swedish, spa, relaxation) massage in many respects:
- It focuses first and foremost on restoring balance to muscles and their connective tissue, e.g., lengthening muscle fibers and healing weakened areas.
- The goal of sports massage is facilitating long-term healing, not short-term relaxation. Although it may feel good, it is not the end goal.
- The pace, pressure, intensity, techniques, and amount of stretching are also increased and more varied throughout the massage.
- Sports massage requires advanced knowledge of muscles and their attachment sites, typical range of motion of joints, and area specific injuries.
Sports Massage, LLC holds itself accountable to these higher standards of massage. If you demand the best for your body, rest assured you’re getting one of the best massages in Albuquerque.
Many athletes think they need to battle through pain as if it’s some necessary rite of passage to get to the finish line. We’re here to tell you it’s not. You can actually be making the problem worse by spreading compensation dysfunctions to the rest of body, which take longer to rehabilitate. So shorten your recovery time and take care of minor pain NOW.
Another athlete fallacy is that massage isn’t necessary as long as you’re stretching and cross-training. These ARE important, but they do not take the place of a professional sports massage. Even if you brush your teeth and floss everyday, you still need to visit your dentist regularly for a thorough cleaning.
The cost of long term prescriptions, doctor visits, and surgeries that only temporary relieve symptoms can be astronomical when compared to preventative maintenance massage visits (not to mention their side effects- Yuck!). Wouldn’t you prefer being temporarily relaxed as your side effect? And with evening and Saturday hours, there’s no lost work or training time.
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By calling today, you can avoid severe injuries, pain in everyday movements, lost training time, sleeplessness, and
mental haziness.
Conditions often encountered: Whiplash, Piriformis syndrome, Carpal tunnel syndrome, Plantar fasciitis, Patellofemoral syndrome, Temporal mandibular joint dysfunction, scar tissue, Osteoarthritis, Sinusitis, Peripheral neuropathy, limited ROM, Fibromyalgia, SI joint dysfunctions and many more.
-Your body was meant to move every 15 minutes. It was meant to walk or run, not
to sit for lengthy periods of time. Therefore, there is an imbalance between muscles
that work too much and their opposites that are working not enough.
-Bigger muscles often are overdeveloped in sports (for example, the quadriceps) for
strength and power. Without balancing the intrinsic muscles (i.e., the psoas), the
bigger muscles can take on too much work and burn out.
-Pain is your body’s way of communicating something is not right. By silencing pain
through over-medication, we lose the opportunity to find out the source the problem,
and allow the problem to spread into other areas of dysfunction through compensation.
-Stretching and strengthening balance and tone muscles so they’re healthy.
During athletic activity, the muscles contract; especially important after activity, stretching
allows the muscle to reset to its normal resting state to continue its workload.
-Massage lengthens muscle tissue more than stretching alone.
-Ice is your friend. No more than 20 minutes at a time, 3-4 times a day for acute injuries or pain.
-Fighting against gravity plays a huge role in our muscles that keep our upright
posture. They are designed to work efficiently at perfect posture, and are required
to do lots of unnecessary work if we have a forward head leaning posture.
Client Quotes
"You have the Gift! Thank you from me and the rest of humanity for choosing this profession." –John
"Shari, you have golden hands. You don’t mess around. Great work today - as always!" –Mariah
"I started coming to Sports Massage, LLC for my stiff neck, but because of Shari's holistic approach, my nightly calf cramps that I've had for years stopped as well!"—Allan
Ready to take the first step into an improved body?
Email, text or call to find out how Sports Massage, LLC can help you.
Sports Massage, LLC
Shari Darman, LMT #4452
1400 Carlisle Blvd. NE
Albuquerque, NM 87110
Office hours:
By appointment only (All are appointment start times)
Tuesday 10:00 – 4:30
Thursday 10:00 – 4:30
Friday 10:00 – 4:30
Saturday 9:30 – 4:00
Phone calls taken and returned within 24 hours, 7 days a week.
Accepting new clients • Cash or Check accepted.
Medical insurance and credit cards not accepted at this time.
Gift certificates available by email.
Cancellation policy: At least 6 hours notice required for all cancellations.
One freebee cancellation permitted per calendar year.
Cancellation fee is $95. Exceptions and details available in office.
-Your body was meant to move every 15 minutes. It was meant to walk or run, not
to sit for lengthy periods of time. Therefore, there is an imbalance between muscles
that work too much and their opposites that are working not enough.
-Bigger muscles often are overdeveloped in sports (for example, the quadriceps) for
strength and power. Without balancing the intrinsic muscles (i.e., the psoas), the
bigger muscles can take on too much work and burn out.
-Pain is your body’s way of communicating something is not right. By silencing pain
through over-medication, we lose the opportunity to find out the source the problem,
and allow the problem to spread into other areas of dysfunction through compensation.
-Stretching and strengthening balance and tone muscles so they’re healthy.
During athletic activity, the muscles contract; especially important after activity, stretching
allows the muscle to reset to its normal resting state to continue its workload.
-Massage lengthens muscle tissue more than stretching alone.
-Ice is your friend. No more than 20 minutes at a time, 3-4 times a day for acute injuries or pain.
-Fighting against gravity plays a huge role in our muscles that keep our upright
posture. They are designed to work efficiently at perfect posture, and are required
to do lots of unnecessary work if we have a forward head leaning posture.
Sports Massage, LLC