Mayakoba, Quintana Roo, May 24, 2025 – In order to offer a gratifying experience to the players of the MEXICO Riviera Maya Open at Mayakoba, the organizers made available the massage therapy service, a plus for them.
Paulina Nambo, who studied physiotherapy and rehabilitation at BUAP, is in charge of offering this service, helping the players to relax not only their muscles, but also their minds.
“Here my job is as a masseuse, I attend to the players pre and post training and pre and post game. Usually if it’s before, it’s a relaxing massage and if it’s after the game or heavy training it’s decontracting. They tell me their needs and I do what they ask me to do, obviously I make my evaluation, assess and determine what they need, but it is like a complement to what they tell me and what I perceive in each player”, explains Nambo.
The attention to each player ranges from half an hour to an hour. To schedule a massage, the athlete goes to the players desk a day before. Once the appointment has been made, Paulina goes to each room with her massage table and special equipment to provide a service that not only relieves the muscles, but also clears the mind.
“They come stressed both mentally and physically, with some pressure, you can see that they arrive tired, you can see it in their faces, because they made an almost superhuman effort. Then they express their needs with a little frustration, but that’s at the beginning because after my work they end up very happy, with a lot of encouragement because we talk a lot; besides being a masseuse I like to talk and they may arrive a little ‘off’ but then they recover their spirits”
Nambo enjoys her work very much, knowing that she can bring about a positive change in people with her hands. “I like my career very much, the motto of physiotherapy is ‘movement is life’, so the change you make in people, whether they are players or those who are not involved in sports is noticeable. People arrive feeling bad, physiotherapy can be preventive, but usually patients arrive when they already feel bad. Then they come to you and you see them leave better, and that perspective I have of before and after gives me a lot of satisfaction,” says the specialist.
Focused mainly on sports physiotherapy since she graduated from BUAP in 2022, she is currently about to finish her master’s degree in Administration of Health Institutions.
The most complicated part of his work is the physical wear and tear, “because I use my hands a lot, I am on my feet for a long time, but it is all worth it, I feel that although the wear and tear is great, the satisfaction makes me put it aside”.
