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 postsurgery 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.
Benefits of Prenatal Massage:
- safe, natural, drug-free method to relieve aches and pains of pregnancy
- reduce swelling
- assist heart and circulatory and lymphatic systems promoting movement of blood and lymph
- alleviate stress on weight bearing joints of hips, pelvis, knees, and ankles
- relieve soreness in muscles supporting extra weight of the baby
- ease pressure and pain to the nervous system, including the sciatic nerve
- teach relaxation skills and increase proprioceptivity (awareness of muscles and tension they hold) -both valuable during labor
- promote release of emotional and physical tension
- prepare the body for delivery by loosening the pelvis and ridding the body of extra tension
- positive impact on the fetus-happy mommy, happy baby!