Massage Therapy: Benefits That Go Beyond RelaxationProfessional massage therapy goes beyond relaxation, also helping to relieve pain, decrease blood pressure, boost immune system, restore mobility, and more!
Many people come to massage therapy seeking relief from stress, pain, and other conditions that interfere with quality of life. Perhaps you're interested in massage for its stress relieving benefits, or seeking relief for chronic or acute pain. Maybe you are simply looking for better relaxation and improved sleep. Whether you have specific goals for treatment or not, massage therapy tends to enhance health and well-being. |
Research on the Health Benefits of Massage Therapy
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Research shows massage therapy can aid in physical, mental, and social well-being, and may also help prevent disease by improving immune function and reducing stress. With such a long list of health benefits, make massage therapy a part of your wellness plan! Here's just some of the scientific research and studies we've come across proving that massage therapy doesn't just feel good, it really is good medicine...
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Massage Really is Good Medicine
Give Your Immune System a Boost With Massage
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Massage Can Alleviate Pain
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Massage Therapy Reduces Inflammation
- Research through the Buck Institute for Research on Aging and McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario indicates that massage therapy reduces inflammation of acutely damaged skeletal muscle. The study found evidence at the cellular level that massage therapy may affect inflammation in a way similar to anti-inflammatory medications.
Massage Can Improve Your Cardiovascular Health
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Get Active & Stay Fit
- Whether you are a professional athlete or just getting started with a fitness program, massage therapy has been shown to have major benefits for exercise, including enhanced performance and cardiovascular health. Massage therapy is also effective for pain management, faster recovery, and prevention of injuries, so that you can keep going. Massage therapy can be a key part of maintaining peak fitness.
Stay Motivated with Massage
Lose Weight--With a Relaxing Massage!
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Get Better Sleep & Feel More Energized
- According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), insufficient sleep is a public health epidemic. Lack of sleep contributes to many of the chronic diseases--such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease, obesity, and depression—which threaten our nation’s health. Inadequate sleep is associated with a number of medical conditions, and can negatively impact a person’s overall health. Massage therapy has been proven to reduce fatigue and improve sleep.
- Massage therapy can help you get the sleep you need to stay focused and healthy. Not only has research shown that massage therapy reduces levels of the "stress-hormone" cortisol, massage also increases levels of serotonin and dopamine, the "feel-good" hormone!
Massage Therapy is Proven to Reduce Anxiety & Stress
Massage Can Be Effective for Tension Headaches
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Lower Levels of Stress, Anxiety, and Depression
- According to the 2014 National College Health Assessment, students are really stressed out these days! Research has proven massage therapy is effective stress relief. Massage therapy has been proven to boost levels of the "feel-good" hormone dopamine, while at the same time lowering levels of the "stress-hormone" cortisol.
Massage Therapy Benefits Kids & Adolescents
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Improved Study, Focus, and Attention
- Students with ADHD can improve mood and classroom attention and focus with regular massage therapy.
- Headaches, especially tension headaches, frequently get in the way of study and sleep, with up to 30-50% of young people suffering from regular headaches.
- Massage is proven effective relief for tension headaches.
Massage Improves Tactile Abnormalities for Children with Autism
- Massage therapy may be beneficial in reducing the autistic behaviors of inattentiveness, touch aversion and withdrawal. Recent research indicates that massage therapy treatment resulted in significant decreases of tactile impairment, self-regulatory delay, and parenting stress for children with autism.
Massage Therapy Benefits Newborn and Pre-term Infants
- Infants who receive massage (especially newborn pre-term infants) experience many benefits including better weight gain, better sooth-ability and improved sleep, as well as decreases in stress hormones such as cortisol.
Benefits of Massage for Skin
- Increases blood flow, bringing in fresh nutrients and oxygen to skin
- Stimulates lymphatic flow and drainage, which aids detoxification, moving wastes out
- Moisturizes and improves elasticity
- Effectively calms the nervous system, relieving stress and improving overall health
- Notice changes, such as moles and spots, that be signs of skin cancer
- Diminishes scar tissue by realigning and smoothing collagen and elastin fibers
Massage Therapy for Burns and Scarring
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