Benefits Of Massage

Within the past decade, an overwhelming accumulation of scientific evidence has supported the claim that massage therapy is beneficial.

Massage Therapy is a profession in which the practitioner applies manual techniques, and may apply adjunctive therapies, with the intention of positively affecting the health and well-being of the client.

Massage is manual soft tissue manipulation, and includes holding, causing movement, and/or applying pressure to the body.

Everyone can benefit from a professional massage.

Massage Therapy can:
- Provide anything from soothing relaxation to deeper therapy for specific physical    problems.
- Relieve your stress and anxiety. 
- Increase the nourishing blood supply to your tissues.
- Improve your energy and alertness.
- Aid your recovery from pulled muscles or sprained ligaments.
- Ease many of the uncomfortable stresses of child bearing, including edema,   backaches, and exhaustion.
- Relieve certain repetitive motion injuries related to on-the-job activities.
- Greatly reduce your pain if you suffer from such problems as temporal    mandibular joint dysfunction (TMJ) or carpal tunnel syndrome.
- Compensate, at least in part, for lack of exercise and muscular contraction if    you’re a person, who, because of age, injury, or illness, is forced to remain    inactive.

A healthy response
Once your massage is underway, a whole range of beneficial reactions is set in motion. 

The therapy can:
- Hasten the elimination of waste and toxic debris that are stored in your muscles.
- Increase the interchange of substances between the blood and tissue cells.
- Heighten the oxygenation of the tissues.
- Stimulate the relaxation response within your nervous system.

All of these responses can:
- Help to strengthen your immune system.
- Improve your posture.
- Increase your joint flexibility and range of motion.
- Lower your blood pressure.