Your Health & Wellness
Professional
massage can do wonders for your body, both physically and mentally. No
longer considered just an indulgence, massage is recognized as an
effective treatment for many health conditions with benefits that
include reducing stress and anxiety. Additional benefits include
increased blood circulation and lymph function and relief to muscle and
joint soreness.
Benefits of Massage
Experts
estimate that upwards of ninety percent of disease is stress-related.
And perhaps nothing ages us faster, internally and externally, than high
stress. Massage is an effective tool for managing this stress, which
translates into:
- Decreased anxiety.
- Enhanced sleep quality.
- Greater energy.
- Improved concentration.
- Increased circulation.
- Reduced fatigue.
Massage can also help specifically address a number of health issues. Bodywork can:
- 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.
- Improve the condition of the body's largest organ—the skin.
- Increase joint flexibility.
- Lessen depression and anxiety.
- 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.
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