Massage therapy not only provides relaxation and relief to muscle strain and fatigue, a therapeutic massage may improve your health. There are many benefits to massage therapy, including physical, emotional, and physiological improvements in the body.

Why Get a Massage?

Imagine a long day which could include standing on cement floors or lifting heavy boxes or running after the children or driving or sitting at a desk. Your back is killing you, there is pain in your shoulder(s), you feel sick & lethargic, your limbs ache and your temples are throbbing. Fatigue, repetitive motion, muscle strain, or just staying in one position for an extended amount of time could cause any of these symptoms.

It's your body's way of saying, "slow down and take it easy". How you respond to these symptoms determines how you will feel. What if your stress, pain, tension, and fatigue could be purged from your body through therapeutic massage? Would you get one? There are many reasons a person may desire or need a massage.  However, there many good reasons to get a massage - here are a few...

  • Reduces lower back pain and other bodily aches.
  • Helps sooth infants and promotes digestion.
  • Increases range of motion in joints.
  • Decreases illness-related fatigue.
  • Calms aggressive behaviours.
  • Decreases depression and helps to promote a healthy mind.
  • Improves recovery after post-operative surgery.
  • Alleviates age-related disorders, sleep disorders, and many more emotional and physical problems.
  • Ease medication dependence.
  • Enhance immunity by stimulating lymph flow & increasing white blood cell counts. —the body’s natural defense system.
  • Exercise and stretch weak, tight, or atrophied muscles.
  • Help athletes of any level prepare for, and recover from, strenuous workouts.
  • Improve the condition of the body’s largest organ—the skin.
  • Increase joint flexibility.
  • Lessen depression and anxiety.
  • Promote tissue regeneration, reducing scar tissue and stretch marks.
  • Pump oxygen and nutrients into tissues and vital organs, improving circulation.
  • Reduce postsurgery adhesions and swelling.
  • Reduce spasms and cramping.
  • Relax and soften injured, tired, and overused muscles.
  • Release endorphins—amino acids that work as the body’s natural painkiller.
  • Relieve migraine pain.

 

Experts estimate that upwards of ninety percent of disease is stress related. And perhaps nothing ages us faster, internally and externally, than high stress. While eliminating anxiety and pressure altogether in this fast-paced world may be idealistic, massage can, without a doubt, help manage and reduce stress.