What exactly are the benefits of receiving massage or bodywork treatments?
Massage is useful for all of the conditions listed below and more, massage can:
- Decrease anxiety and depression.
- Enhanced sleep quality.
- Improve concentration.
- Alleviate low-back pain and improve range of motion.
- Assist with shorter, easier labor for expectant mothers and shorten maternity hospital stays.
- Ease medication dependence.
- Enhance immunity by stimulating lymph flow—the body’s natural defense system.
- Exercise and stretch weak, tight, or atrophied muscles.
- Help athletes of any level prepare for and recover from strenuous workouts.
- Increase joint flexibility.
- Promote tissue regeneration, reducing scar tissue and stretch marks.
- Pump oxygen and nutrients into tissues and vital organs, improving circulation.
- Reduce post-surgery adhesions and swelling.
- Reduce spasms and cramping.
- Relax and soften injured, tired, and overused muscles.
- Release endorphins—amino acids that work as the body’s natural painkiller.
- Relieve migraine pain.
- Reduce edema of the extremities.
- Stimulate lymph circulation and aids in the elimination of wastes and toxic debris.
- Increase red blood cells.
- Facilitate rest.
