Injury Prevention for Athletes in Denver

It depends on your training load. Athletes training 5+ days per week or stacking multiple sports often benefit from every 2 to 3 weeks. Recreational athletes with moderate training loads typically do well on a monthly cadence. During high-volume training blocks, such as the 6 to 8 weeks before a race, every 2 to 3 weeks is usually the right interval. We’ll give you a specific recommendation after the first session based on what we find and how your tissue responds.

Yes, that’s actually the ideal time to come. The most effective prevention work happens before symptoms develop, when we can address the underlying mechanical issues before they’ve had a chance to become injuries. Waiting for pain means the problem has already progressed. If you’re training consistently, there are almost certainly restrictions and trigger points worth addressing; you just can’t feel them yet.

Prevention sessions at DSM are clinically oriented. They start with a brief assessment, are structured around what that assessment finds, and target the specific restrictions and imbalances most relevant to your training and sport. They’re not a relaxation massage (though you’ll feel great afterward). The goal is mechanical: improving tissue quality, restoring range of motion, deactivating trigger points, and ensuring load is distributed correctly. If you’re looking for genuine prevention work rather than general relaxation, that distinction matters.

Absolutely. Prevention care isn’t only for elite or competitive athletes. Anyone who exercises regularly, has an active lifestyle, or puts consistent demands on their body benefits from regular soft-tissue maintenance. Colorado hikers, recreational runners, cyclists, gym-goers, and weekend sport players all accumulate the same types of tissue changes and movement imbalances, just at a different rate. The principles are identical; the cadence and focus just adapt to your activity level.

Ideally 5 to 7 days out. This gives enough time for any post-session tissue response (some people feel slightly tender for 24 hours after deep work) to fully resolve before race day, while still being close enough that the benefits (improved range of motion, reduced trigger point activity, better tissue extensibility) are at their peak. Avoid booking deep tissue work in the 48 hours immediately before a race. For events you’re particularly targeting, we can build a session schedule around your taper period.

Yes, and this is extremely common. Many clients come in with a mix of an active area that needs injury management and other areas that benefit from prevention work. A 60-minute session has enough time to address both. The clinical approach is the same: assessment drives what gets prioritized in the session. Just let us know when you book what you’re dealing with and we’ll structure the session accordingly.