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2012-04-24
Benefits of massage (Body work)


EVOLVED MIND & BODY WORX

Lynda Stanton

082 498 5478

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Benefits of Massage

  • Relieves stress and promotes an overall feeling of relaxation, helping you breathe and move more easily
  • Alleviates pain and tension, and helps you manage pain better
  • Decreases inflammation
  • Promotes speedy recovery from injuries (work, trauma, accident or sports-related)
  • Increases mobility and provides greater joint flexibility and range of motion
  • Improves circulation
  • Improves and strengthens immune system
  • Relieves musculoskeletal problems and improves posture
  • Relieves pregnancy discomforts
  • Reduces anxiety and promotes an overall feeling of well-being
  • Increases body awareness

Massage Therapy and Health Conditions

Aside from being very effective in relieving stress, there is much scientific research that shows how massage can help with a variety of health conditions, including:

  • Anxiety and depression
  • Arthritis
  • Back Pain
  • Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
  • Chronic and acute pain
  • Circulatory problems
  • Depression
  • Digestive disorders
  • Fibromyalgia
  • Headaches
  • Muscular-Skeletal Disorders
  • Pain
  • Sleep Disorders
  • Sports injuries
  • Stress
  • Tendonitis
  • Whiplash

How Massage Works

Massage therapists will use a variety of techniques to promote healing mobilise toxicity, break down spasm in muscle tissue, and often after sometime the body will feel relaxation, as well as to promote greater flexibility and range of motion. When a specific muscle group is injured or contracted, the treatment can and will be uncomfortable, other muscles surrounding the affected area also brace in response to the injury or contraction, so need to be deeply released too. Massage helps to improve blood circulation, decrease pain and inflammation, helps to relax the muscles, and makes you feel better.

Massage therapy has been scientifically studied for many years, and has been around for hundreds of years, used to manage lifestyle and wellness in general, there is no substitute for “hands on treatment” from a professional therapist. It has been proved to have many positive effects on a variety of heath conditions: physical, emotional, and mental….

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