Results Achieved with Massage Therapy
Massage Therapy relaxes the musculature & reduces stress.
Alright ladies, up to 90% of visits to doctors are for stress-related problems. Backaches, anxiety, headaches, eye-strain, depression, high blood pressure, heart disease and just plain mental and physical exhaustion.
Our muscles tighten due to stress, repetitive movements, injury and poor circulation. When they go untreated, all of these conditions become habitual and you become used to them so they don't go away on their own.
Massage Therapy has a fantastic effect on our bodies by counteracting stress. It relaxes muscle tension and improves your heart rate, circulation and blood pressure.
Receiving regular Massage Therapy teaches you how to listen to your body as you learn to recognize the warning signs of tension and stress. The sooner you realize what's going on, you can do some preventive care and keep yourself healthy.
Massage Therapy helps optimize nerve function.
Tingling, numbness and pain of one or more areas may be caused by contracted muscles that pinch the nerves. Massage Therapy relieves the compression on the nerve tissue by relaxing the contracting muscles.
Massage Therapy helps ease sleep troubles.
Unfortunately, we are a part of a high strung society full of anxiety and stress. We tax our nervous systems and hinder our ability to cope with day-to-day life by depriving ourselves of sleep. Regular Massage Therapy promotes the slowing down of the breath, heart rate and blood pressure along with calming our nerves. All of this allows for deeper more restorative sleep.
Massage Therapy helps strengthen the immune system.
Increased blood flow causes greater circulation through the lymphatic system which increases immune system function. Illness and injury recovery is improved.
Massage Therapy increases circulation & reduces pain.
Tight muscles and connective tissue are loosened and stretched, taking the pressure off our vessels. Tight muscles cannot hold as much fluid or allow the proper flow of fluid to pass through. The decrease in blood flow puts more strain on your heart, creating soreness, fatigue and chronic pain. By loosening the musculature, Massage Therapy helps our circulation by enabling the body to better utilize nutrients and eliminate wastes.
Massage Therapy increases range of motion to joints.
The gentle stretching action to the muscles and connective tissues that surround and support the muscles and many other parts of the body, are kept elastic with massage.
Massage Therapy improves digestion & intestinal function.
The body's secretions and excretions are increased with massage. It increases the production of saliva, urine and gastric juices. Also, there is an increased excretion of salt, inorganic phosphorus and nitrogen. As a result, our metabolic rate increases.
Massage Therapy also helps:
Improve posture
Connect body, mind and spirit
Increase energy
You to be calm and more centered, and thus more creative
You think more clearly and release mental static, achieving a “relaxed alertness”
Reduce scar tissue — (the newer the scar tissue the better result
Re-educate muscle or re-train muscle to behave like it should
Increase the body's natural anti-depressant and pain killer — endorphins
