Category | Cycling

I was reading the Fall issue of Massage Therapy Journal recently when I came upon an article discussing the most common injuries that massage therapist see in athletes. Eagerly reading away, I was surprised by the naming of an injury which I too find in some of my clients, many of them being cyclists. It is called Tight Ass Syndrome (TAS), which describes the injury perfectly. The massage therapists interviewed for this article say that they found TSA in many of their cyclist clients. One saying of the cause “….follows an exceptionally hard effort, as in a time trial, where one pushes big gears...

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