| A Licensed Massage Therapist’s trained and caring touch can have profound effects on your body’s physiological, psychological, and neurological states. | |||||||||
| Physical Benefits of Massage Therapy | |||||||||
| Experiencing the Magic Touch | |||||||||
| Massage Reduces the Effects of Stress | |||||||||
| Massage Relaxes Tense Muscles | |||||||||
| Massage Increases Blood Circulation | |||||||||
| Massage Decreases Chronic Pain | |||||||||
| Massage Strengthens the Immune System | |||||||||
| Massage Can Improve Nerve Function | |||||||||
| Massage Helps You to Sleep Better | |||||||||
| Massage Improves Skin Tone | |||||||||
| After Your Therapeutic Massage... | |||||||||
| Physical Benefits of Massage Therapy | |||||||||
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Physically relaxes the body • Calms the nervous system • Lowers blood pressure • Slows respiration • Loosens tight (hypertonic) muscles • Stretches connective tissue • Reduces chronic pain • Improves skin tone • Increases blood and lymph circulation • Speeds the removal of metabolic waste • Increases red and white blood cell count • Relieves fatigued and aching muscles • Stimulates the release of endorphins • Improves muscle tone • Relieves cramps and muscle spasms • Increases flexibility and range of motion • Promotes deeper more effective breathing • Speeds recovery from injuries and illness • Strengthens the immune system • Reduces swelling and scarring • Improves posture and tonus • Relieves tension headaches • Increases tissue metabolism • Decreases muscular deterioration (atrophy) • Stimulates the parasympathetic nervous system • Reduces fibrous adhesions due to ischemic tissue |
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| Experiencing the Magic Touch | |||||||||
| A
weekly massage may seem overwhelming at times, but new research suggests
it can have major benefits toward better health. Massage therapy provides
relief to help people from all walks of life; the weekend athlete,
the home gardener, the over stressed executive or educator, secretaries,
waitresses, hairdressers and laborers. Virtually anyone can feel the
need for a therapeutic massage sooner or later.
Numerous research studies conducted in the United States, Europe and Asia have documented that a massage treatment has physiological, psychological and neurological effects on the body. |
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| Massage Reduces the Effects of Stress | |||||||||
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to 90% of all visits to a primary health care physician are for stress
related complaints such as headaches, backaches, neck pain, poor circulation,
anxiety, depression, irritability, anger, high blood pressure, as
well as physical and emotional exhaustion.
Therapeutic massage has an amazing effect on the body’s nervous system. It stimulates the parasympathetic nervous system to reduce stress. When a person is stressed, the body switches into a state of “Fight-or-Flight”, causing the body to fall out of homeostasis. With massage, it counteracts with your body’s negative response to stress, relaxing muscle tension and allowing your heart rate, blood pressure and circulation to return back to normal homeotasis. Therapeutic massage also helps a person become more aware of their body and unconsciously held tension. As we become more in sync with our body, we become more in tune with tension and disharmony. |
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| Massage Relaxes Tense Muscles | |||||||||
| Muscles
can become hypertonic and injured for many reasons. Stress, injury,
poor circulation, over use and misuse, can all cause pain and discomfort
as well as restrict normal range of motion. When left unattended,
these conditions can become habitual and hamper the quality of everyday
life.
Therapeutic massage stretches and loosens tight muscles and connective tissue; breaking down and preventing further formation of adhesions, due to ischemic tissue. This neuromuscular facilitation technique (Trigger Point Therapy) signals a proprioceptor response, releasing the musculature, freeing the range of motion and reducing myofibrosis. |
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| Massage Increases Blood Circulation | |||||||||
| Like
a sponge that is squeezed, a tight muscle cannot hold much fluid nor
can it allow much fluid to pass through it. This decreases circulation
of blood and increases the strain placed on the heart. This can leave
you feeling fatigued and sore, reducing your vital energy reserves.
Therapeutic massage releases contracted muscles and pushes venous blood centripetally toward the heart, thus easing the strain on vital organs. This increase in circulation brings energy-producing nutrients and oxygen to cells and carries away metabolic waste products. In addition, massage therapy increases the body’s oxygen-carrying red blood cell count helping to bring even more oxygen to the body’s cells. |
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| Massage Decreases Chronic Pain | |||||||||
| Far too many people live with chronic pain due to injury or illness. Not only does massage therapy help to correct these conditions, but it also decreases chronic pain. With the trained techniques, a licensed massage therapist can actively trigger nerve receptor signals along myelinated nerve fibers to temporarily block chronic pain signals from reaching the brain. Also by stimulating the nerve response, endorphins are released (the body’s natural pain killer) into the brain and nervous system to reduce the feeling of pain and discomfort without the use of unnatural drugs. | |||||||||
| Massage Strengthens the Immune System | |||||||||
| The lymphatic system is a major factor in the body’s battle to ward off infection and heal injuries. Therapeutic massage not only improves the circulation of blood and its vital nutrients, but also increases the circulation of lymph in the lymphatic system thus helping the body fight off infection and speed the recovery from injury and illness. | |||||||||
| Massage Can Improve Nerve Function | |||||||||
| Contracted muscles can press on or pinch nerves causing tingling, numbing or pain. Therapeutic massage relaxes contracted muscles to relieve the compression of the nerves. Sciatica and carpal tunnel syndrome, two common conditions, are prime examples of how nerve impingement take into effect. With massage therapy, muscle hypertonicity can be relaxed, bringing new awareness to the area, relieving chronic tension patterns. | |||||||||
| Massage Helps You to Sleep Better | |||||||||
| Tension
caused by everyday stress can emotionally drain the patience and stamina
needed to cope with day-to-day life, as well as disrupting sleep,
leaving you tired and irritable.
Therapeutic massage relaxes tense muscles and calms the nervous system. Massage brings the body into a parasympathetic state, causing the body’s rhythm to slow down. As the body slows down, the blood pressure lowers, the heart rate settles, and the breathing patterns become deeper and more rhythmic, priming you for a perfect nights sleep. |
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| Massage Improves Skin Tone | |||||||||
| The
sun, smog, poor diet and the unstoppable aging process all contribute
to the drying, wrinkling and the general loss of the youthful characteristics
of the skin.
Massage therapy vasodilates the blood capillaries of the epidermis increasing the level of vital skin repair, replacing nutrients and speeding the removal of harmful toxins. This improved circulation helps to moisten and nourish the skins texture and relieve dryness and itching. |
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| After Your Therapeutic Massage... | |||||||||
| After a therapeutic massage it is important to drink plenty of water to cleanse the internal system. Massage penetrates deep into the cellular tissue releasing metabolic waste products into the interstitial spaces of the body. Drinking plenty of water will help flush these toxins out of the body. Every person should drink water in the amount of half their body weight in ounces daily to maintain a healthy balance. | |||||||||
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