How Can Massage Help You?

Experts estimate that more than 90% of disease is stress related.  Massage is an effective tool for managing stress by

•  decreasing anxiety and depression
•  enhancing quality of sleep
•  increasing energy
•  increasing mental clarity and improving concentration
•  reducing fatigue
•  resetting your body’s natural stress response, allowing for more balanced moods

Massage can address health issues as well by

• promoting growth and development in infants

• assisting with shorter, easier labor for expectant mothers and shortening post-natal recovery time 

• helping athletes prepare for and recover from strenuous workouts, training, competitions, and disabling injuries

•  improving circulation (general and local)

•  pumping oxygen and nutrients to vital organs and tissues promoting healthy organ and tissue function

• improving skin tone

•  improving digestion

• encouraging diaphragmatic breathing (increased oxygenation to blood)

• enhancing immunity by boosting lymph flow (the body’s natural waste removal and defense system)

• reducing blood pressure and heart rate

• enhancing tissue repair and regeneration, allowing for healthy scar tissue formation, and reduced scar tissue and post-surgery adhesions

•  promoting smooth joint function, increased joint flexibility, and increased range of motion

• improving overall health of muscle tissue by

- enhancing pliability of tissue related to muscles (tendons, ligaments, etc.)

- softening injured, tired, and overused muscles, thereby reducing            spasms and cramps

 -  stretching and exercising weak, tight, and atrophied muscles

•  effectively reducing chronic, long term, and diffuse pain by

- releasing endorphins – the body’s natural pain killer

- blocking transmission from small pain transmitting nerve fibers by activating      large nerve fibers that carry tactile (sensory) information