Benefits of Massage

Massage not only feels great, it helps maintain a healthy body, has many emotional and mental benefits, aids in injury recovery and prevention, and boosts the body’s natural immunity.

Massage Helps You Maintain a Healthy Body:

• Massage Improves flexibility as the therapist stretches and lengthens the muscles and fascia of the body. In many cases therapists can stretch areas of the body that you alone are unable to stretch effectively.

• Massage detoxifies the body of waste products both in the skin and internally, resulting in healthier, younger looking skin and improved internal function.

• Massage releases muscle restrictions and trigger points, commonly called “knots,” thus reducing pain and increasing strength and flexibility.

• You may move with more ease and have an increased range of motion in muscles and joints after a massage.

• Massage encourages a healthy heart by decreasing elevated blood pressure. It also helps increase the strength of the heart’s muscle contraction and amount of blood moved by the heartbeat.

• Massage leaves you feeling energized.

Mental/emotional benefits of massage:

• Massage promotes deep relaxation and stress reduction.

• Mental fatigue is relieved by massage.

• Massage can help decrease depression, anxiety, and post partum symptoms.

Massage can Benefit Injury Recovery:

• Massage improves muscle tone and helps prevent muscle atrophy when exercise is not an option especially after surgery.

• The release of endorphins is stimulated by massage. Endorfins are the body’s natural pain killer.

• An increased the range of motion occurs in muscles and joints – allowing you to move with more ease.

• Massage supports a decrease in recovery time from bone fractures and other injuries.

Massage has Immune Boosting Properties:

• Massage results in increased blood and lymph flow and their capacity to transport and hold nutrients such as oxygen, making your body and systems more efficient.

Perhaps the American Massage Therapy Association says it best:

“Massage has its greatest benefits over time. The therapeutic effects of massage are cumulative, so the more often a person gets a massage, the better he or she will feel and the more quickly one’s body will respond. From one session to the next, relaxation deepens as the chronic patterns of stress in the body are affected and released. These changes are readily felt in day-to-day life as well, which adds another dimension of reinforcement. If you are getting massage to address chronic muscular tension or recovery from a soft tissue injury, more than one session is usually needed, so be prepared to schedule several sessions.”