Quick Answer
Sports massage in Austin at Banyan & Bamboo is built for people who train: runners on the Lady Bird Lake trail, lifters, cyclists, tennis and pickleball players, and anyone recovering from a race. Brandon Gomez, LMT, a sports massage therapist with more than seven years of experience and a fitness background, uses cross-fiber work, assisted stretching, cupping, and trigger point release to speed recovery and restore range of motion. $137 for 50 minutes, $187 for 80, or the 90-minute Rebuild at $280. South Lamar, 78704.
Start With What You Feel
What you feel
Quads and calves that stay sore for days, tight hamstrings, and a stride that shortens on the next run.
What the session does
Flushing strokes move fluid out of worked muscle, cupping lifts the fascia, and stretching restores the length that repeated impact took away.
Sports Massage, 80 minutes, or the Rebuild
What you feel
Hip flexors that lock after squats and deadlifts, a low back that tightens to compensate, and a lift that stalls at the same depth.
What the session does
Deep work on the hip flexors, glutes, and QL, with assisted stretching to give the hips their range back, so the back stops doing the hips' job.
Rebuild, 90 minutes
What you feel
A shoulder that aches after tennis or pickleball, tight forearms, and a serve that has lost its snap.
What the session does
Cross-fiber work on the rotator cuff and forearm extensors, trigger point release where the ache refers from, and mobility work for the shoulder capsule.
Sports Massage, 50 or 80 minutes
What you feel
The same hamstring, calf, or shoulder flares every few weeks, no matter how well you warm up.
What the session does
Precision work finds the adhesion or trigger point behind the pattern and treats it across a short series, with a plan for the weeks between.
Precision Pain Relief, 90 minutes
The Banyan & Bamboo Standard
How It Works
Training creates micro-tears in muscle, that is how it gets stronger, and the repair leaves behind adhesions, shortened fibers, and fascia that binds where it should glide. Left alone, those changes show up as lost range of motion, a nagging spot that never clears, and the injury that arrives on the same side every season.
Sports massage treats the tissue your sport actually loads. Cross-fiber friction breaks up adhesions along the muscle's line of pull. Assisted stretching, with the therapist moving the limb while the muscle relaxes, restores length that static stretching cannot reach. Cupping lifts the fascia away from the muscle so fluid moves and the layers glide again. Trigger point release treats the knots that refer pain to a different place than they live.
Timing matters. A lighter session before an event primes the tissue. The deep work belongs 24 to 72 hours after, when the soreness peaks and circulation does the most good. Between events, every two to three weeks keeps the adhesions from building.
Cross-fiber work · upper back and shoulders
Pricing
Fifty for one problem area, eighty for the full body with time to spare, ninety for the complete recovery protocol.
Banyan Luxe members receive 5 to 10 percent off every session, and the monthly credit rolls over. Membership details.
Your Therapists
Brandon builds every session around your sport and your schedule. Request him by name when you book.
What to Expect
Step 1
What you train for, what is coming up, where it hurts, and how much pressure you want. Two minutes that shape the whole session.
Step 2
Flushing strokes first, then the specific work: cross-fiber friction, cupping, trigger point release, and assisted stretching for the areas your sport loads.
Step 3
Water, three stretches for the areas we worked, and a schedule. On a training block, every two to three weeks. Around a race, a lighter session before and the deep one 24 to 72 hours after.
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Request Brandon by name. Same-week appointments most days. 3005 S Lamar Blvd Suite D-112, Austin TX 78704 · 512-890-1130
