Nothing comes close to touching on the essence of massage and its therapeutic benefits to the body, mind and spirit. Massage makes you feel and perform better with the following benefits:
- Increasing circulation
- Enhancing immune function
- Promoting nervous system functioning
- Reducing blood pressure
- Relieving pain and muscle tension
- Improving mood, intellectual reasoning and job performance
- Having a positive effect on conditions such as fibromyalgia, arthritis, diabetes and migraine headaches.
Depending on the techniques used, massage can:
- Stimulate the nervous system to help reduce muscle atrophy
- Increase muscle tone
- Stimulate the functions of the skin or an organ deep inside the body
- Sedate the nervous system to help ease muscle tension, spasticity, stress-related symptoms and headaches
- Boost the functioning of the immune system and maintain health when done regularly
- Stimulate sluggish circulation or slow down the circulation of someone who has just run a marathon when using friction massage techniques
- Allow better range of motion and support the connective tissue and muscles to become strong and healthy when simple joint movements and joint stretching are incorporated in the session.