Reap the Benefits of Massage Therapy!
Massage therapy profoundly affects both physical and psychological health. It does its healing work by benefiting several of your body's systems:
Circulatory System
- Improves the oxygen supply to the cells
- Eliminates metabolic waste
- Decreases blood pressure
Muscular System
- Relaxes or stimulates muscles
- Reduces muscle adhesions
- Helps keep muscles flexible
- Relieves tension and soreness
Nervous System
- Stimulates the motor nerves
- Relieves restlessness and insomnia
- Relieves pressure on compressed nerves
Integumentary System (the skin)
- Stimulates blood to better nourish skin
- Improves tone and elasticity of skin
Skeletal System
- Improves body alignment
- Relieves stiff joints
These are a few of the ways massage therapy can contribute to your health and well being. Massage therapy can be a vital part of everyone's health regimen.
As well as the direct physical benefits, touch contributes much to our overall well-being. A medical study performed at Massachusetts General Hospital showed that premature babies who were massaged gained fifty percent more weight than those babies that had not.
What was good for us as babies is still good for us as adults! Therapeutic touch soothes and calms stress while you lie on the massage table.