Massage Therapy is a proven and effective means of relaxation and stress relief. Therapeutic massage is increasingly being recommended by doctors and other health care professionals to complement traditional medicine as research proves its healing effects.
Here are the key benefits of receiving massage: Massage feels good, it is pleasurable and it increases body awareness and sensitivity.
- Alleviate “office work syndrome”: tension-related headaches, migraine, low-back pain, neck pain, shoulder pain, wrist pain, trapezius and hamstrings muscle pain, sciatica and various muscular tightness.
- Relieve sleeping disorder thus easing or even eliminating medication dependence.
- Enhance immunity by stimulating lymph flow—the body’s natural defense system.
- Exercise and stretch weak, tight, or atrophied muscles.Help athletes of any level prepare for, and recover from, strenuous workouts.
- Improve the condition of the body’s largest organ—the skin.
- Increase joint flexibility thereby improving range of motion.
- Lessen depression and anxiety.
- Promote tissue regeneration, reducing scar tissue and stretch marks.
- Pump oxygen and nutrients into tissues and vital organs, improving circulation.
- Reduce post-surgery adhesions and swelling.
- Reduce spasms and cramping.
- Relax and soften injured, tired, and overused muscles. Release endorphins—amino acids that work as the body’s natural painkiller.
Clinical researches done in the past few decades have demonstrated sensual massage therapy as a potent and one of the safest treatment methods for a wide variety of ailments as well as for wellness maintenance.
Circulatory System’s Benefits:
- Produces a dilation of the blood vessels thereby improving circulation.
- Reduces the lack of blood, reduces pain due to the irritation of free nerve endings.
- Speeds the elimination of the waste products of metabolism.
- Massage helps to reduce swelling.Massage increases the number of red blood cells in circulation.
- Massage has the overall effect of lowering blood pressure.
- Facilitates tissue healing through the enhancement of circulation.Massage reduces the pulse rate.
- Massage can break the cycle of spasm and pain by decreasing both.
Musculoskeletal Systems’ Benefits:
- Increases the blood supply and nutrition to the muscles.
- Helps muscles recover more quickly from exertion and fatigue.
- Relaxes muscles, reducing spasm, tension and cramping.
- Reduces adhesions (knots) and fibrosis.Improves the circulation and nutrition of the joints and can increase joint range of motion.
- Helps to reestablish proper tone in muscles.Reduces muscle and soft tissue pain.Reduces joint strain and compression through releasing tight muscles and tendons.
- Increases ease and efficiency of movement.Supports increased work capacity and metabolism.
- Massage can stimulate muscle contraction.