Benefits of Massage

Therapeutic massage provides a number of health and wellness related benefits. These benefits are delivered in a natural and safe non-invasive method and do not carry the harmful side effects associated with prescribed medications and the many invasive medical procedures used today. Massage encourages nutrition and development of muscular system by stimulation or circulation, nerve supply and cell functions. Weak muscles can be strengthened by massage. Regular massage treatments produce firmer more elastic muscles.

After your massage session, you may feel looser than normal. I would suggest you drink 2 liters of water within 24 hours. Water helps to release toxins and nourish every part of your body. You should avoid a strenuous work-out 24 hours after a massage since this may increase muscle soreness and compromise the value of the soft tissue work you just received. Walking, gentle stretching and swimming laps at an easy pace is okay for healthy individuals.

Therapeutic massage is wonderful at enhancing and increasing a number of beneficial processes and functions within the human body. Please review the following benefits. We hope this will help you in making your decision to get a massage on a regular basis. This is one of the most healthiest decisions you could ever make. Dont forget your health is your wealth.

• Enhances ones state of well being
• Increase relaxation
• Promotes easier breathig
• Improves posture
• Relieve migraine headache pain
• Alleviate low back pain
• Increases flexibility & range of motion
• Increase muscle tone
• Increase blood circulation
• Increase dopamine & serotonin levels
• Strengthen immune system by stimulating lymph flow
• Promotes tissue regeneration, reducing scar tissue and stretch marks
• Help athletes at any level to prepare for and recover from strenous work-outs
• Improves the conditin of the body's largest organ the skin
• Reduce post surgery adhesions and swelling
• Reduce spasms and cramping
• Relax and soften injured, tired and overused muscles
• Reduces mental stress

Similarly, therapeutic massage is extremely effective at reducing and often eliminating a number of uncomfortable and restrictive symptoms and conditions.

• Reduces constipation
• Reduces cortisol levels
• Reduces depression and anxiety
• Reduces emotional stress
• Reduces joint stiffness
• Rreduces muscular tension
• Reduces scar tissue formation
• Reduces soft tissue knots and trigger points
• Enhance natural killer cells and lymphocytes, which kill bacterial cells, cancer cells, and viral cells
• Enhanced capacity for calm thinking
• Provides a relaxed state of Alertness
• Reduces cortisol levels, a hormone that is produced in a response to stress levels of anxiety and depression
• Helps people spend more time in deep sleep a restorative stage after a one hour massage
• Enables a greater ease of emotional expression
• Provides a therapeutic healthy touch