What can massage therapy do for you?
Professional 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 you energy and alertness
- aid your recovery from pulled muscles or sprained ligaments
- ease many of the uncomfortable stresses of childbearing, including edema, backaches, and exhaustion
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- 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
How Your Body Responds
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
