Getting a massage regularly as scheduled self care can play a large role in how healthy you are. Regular bodywork and exercise can help to prevent many common health problems, surgeries, anxiety and much more. Massage and bodywork can also increase youthfulness, flexibility, flexibility in the joints and so much more. Budgeting time and money for consistent bodywork and exercise is truly an investment in your health and quality of life.
Just because massage is thought of as pampering in our society, it does not mean it is not therapeutic. We push ourselves to work long hours, eat fast foods and constantly on the go. Stress hormones build restless sleep patterns and poor posture while working on computers, driving, and talking on the phone. Repetitive stress injuries from work, demands from life and much more can be alleviated by massage and bodywork. Regular massage can reduce injuries, chronic pain, increase immunity and circulation helping you to be more resilient to disease, prevents imbalances in the body which will reduce lost wages due to illness and injury, prevent the need for surgery and pharmaceuticals. Prevention will increase your quality of life and increase your productivity. If you are healthy and happy you are more productive and will, in turn become more prosperous.
The Physical Benefits of Therapeutic Massage:
- Helps to relieve stress and anxiety by reducing stress hormones and increasing levels of endorphins and other beneficial hormones.
- Increases muscle tone and firms and tones the skin.
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- Improves circulation of blood and lymphatic flow. This helps flush the tissues and detoxify the body, increases immunity and increases venous return of blood to the heart.
- Reduces Blood Pressure: Massage will increase blood flow and circulation during your massage, but the overall effect is a reduction of blood pressure
- Treats Musculoskeletal problems and injuries by releasing tight muscles ( knots ) allowing the muscle tissue to return to its natural state and function. Can aid in tendon and ligament injuries by breaking up adhesion's, allowing the tissues to heal in the proper alignment.
- A decrease in tension in the muscles surrounding and connecting to joints and the spine can increase range of motion and joint function, restore alignment to the bony structures, therefore decreasing stress on the joints and can allow a strained joint to heal and return to normal function.
- Increases Range of Motion in joints, Flexibility and can reduce the chances of injury for athletes and active individuals.
- Enhances athletic performance: Treats sports related injuries
- Treats repetitive stress injuries, Back and Neck pain, Plantar Fascitis, Tennis and Golfers Elbow, can help with early stages of Carpal Tunnel and more.
- Treats Entrapment Syndromes, numbness in arms and hands, sciatic pain due to muscle tightness
- Improves posture
- Helps to promote restful sleep
- Helps relieve tension related headaches and migraines
- Aids in proper healing of Post-operative tissues by reducing scarring and adhesions, increasing blood flow to the area and helps to allow the tissues to heal in proper alignment
- Fosters faster healing of sprained or strained ligaments and tendons, reduces pain and swelling while reducing painful scar tissue.
- Can reduce rate of atrophy in unused muscles
- Premature infants gain weight faster and are healthier when they receive massage
Mental Benefits of Therapeutic Massage:
- Promotes a relaxed state of mind, allowing you to handle everyday stress more efficiently and effectively
- Helps to relieve mental stress
- Improves the ability to monitor stress levels and act appropriately
- Enhances the capacity for calm thinking and creativity, performance and self esteem
- Fosters a feeling of well being
- Reduces anxiety
- Creates body awareness and enhances the mind-body connection
Research shows that massage:
• Reduces work-related stress
• Increases alertness and employee effectiveness
• Improves speed and accuracy on math computations
• Reduces anxiety, depression and fatigue
• Increases vigor
• Reduces depressed mood, anxiety and stress hormone (cortisol) levels
• Decreases diastolic blood pressure in adults with hypertension
• Decreases headaches, sleep disturbances and distress symptoms in migraine sufferers
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