Our Recovery Suite

Effective recovery is essential for your body to repair itself after strenuous activity. It helps mitigate injuries, keeps you at your best on the field, rink, or court, relaxes your mind and replenishes your energy levels. No matter your sport or activity, recovery is key to maintaining and enhancing your elite performance.

At the Center for Sports Performance and Research, we offer a comprehensive private recovery suite open to everyone, from elite athletes to everyday fitness enthusiasts. Our recovery services include float therapy, cryostimulation, and photobiomodulation (PBM). Same-day appointments and package discounts are available. Call 508-216-1145 for more information.

Innovative technology for enhanced athletic recovery

Using advanced tools and techniques, we provide a complete and balanced approach to recovery, tailored to your specific needs.

Floatation 

Also known as restricted environmental stimulation technique (REST), float therapy uses a shallow pool of high-density Epsom salt, sometimes called a float tank, located inside a private, soundproof, darkened chamber to create a sense of weightlessness as your entire body floats in the water. This effortless floating counteracts the effects of gravity, promoting deep relaxation and easing muscle and joint tension. The sensory deprivation experienced during float therapy helps to calm the mind and enhance mental focus. Floatation therapy sessions last sixty minutes and are ideal following an intense training session, or as a relaxing treatment on your “off” day.

Other benefits of float therapy include:

• Reduced stress and anxiety by stimulating the parasympathetic nervous system
• Better sleep quality
• Increased focus both on and off the field

Cryostimulation

During whole body cryostimulation, also known as cold therapy, a machine exposes your body to temperatures as low as -220°F for three minutes. This extreme cold causes your blood to retreat from your extremities and skin inwards to your core to warm your vital organs. Once the therapy ends and you leave the chamber, your blood rushes back out to your skin and extremities as you rewarm.

Cryostimulation may reduce tissue inflammation, and the rewarming process stimulates blood circulation, delivering fresh oxygen and nutrients and helping tissues rebuild stronger. Additionally, cryotherapy may downregulate cortisol, a known stress hormone, increasing an athlete's endurance and tolerance for stress.  

Some of the other benefits of whole body cryostimulation include:

• Hormone regulation/reduced stress
• Reduced muscle tension and soreness
• Improved sleep quality

Photobiomodulation (PBM)

Also known as red-light therapy, photobiomodulation uses red and near-infrared light to penetrate the skin and reach your cells. This therapeutic light targets the mitochondria, the energy producers in your cells, boosting energy and reducing the kind of stress that causes cell and tissue damage. This can lead to increased energy during exercise and faster recovery afterward. At the Center, PBM sessions consist of twenty minutes of red-light therapy delivered in a lie-down bed within a private room.

Other benefits of PBM include:

• Overall increase in energy
• Better sleep quality
• Reduced inflammation