Rem·edy (rem′ə
dē) noun pl. remedies- any medicine or treatment that
cures, heals, or relieves a disease or bodily disorder or tends to restore
health.
What is your remedy for pain, sickness, stress, or other things that come along with life that can bring you down? Massage therapy is often recognized as an indulgent, stress-reducing spa experience.
Massage therapy provides relief to all different people from all walks of life. Virtually, anyone can feel a need for massage, or soothing touch. However, massage therapy is also a physiological healing art that helps people return to their optimal, and flourishing states. Massage therapy also helps you become more aware of your body and your unconsciously held tension.
As you become more aware of your body, you will begin to recognize tension as it builds during the day so that you can consciously release it before it can have a negative effect on your body.
Positive Effects
In response to massage, specific physiological and chemical changes cascade throughout the body, with profound effects. Research shows that with massage:
- Arthritis sufferers note fewer aches and less stiffness and pain
- Asthmatic children show better pulmonary function and increased peak air flow
- Burn injury patients report reduced pain, itching, and anxiety
- Improves the lymphatic flow in the body system
- High blood pressure patients demonstrate lower diastolic blood pressure, anxiety, and stress hormones
- Premenstrual syndrome sufferers have decreased water retention and cramping
- Preterm infants have improved weight gain
- Boosts the immune system
Research continues to show the enormous benefits of touch-which range from treating chronic diseases, neurological disorders, and injuries, to alleviating the tensions of modern lifestyles.
Increase the Benefits with Frequent Visits
Here’s the beauty of bodywork: its benefits are compounded when massage is utilized as a frequent therapy. The more you get, the more it does.
Taking part in this form of regularly-scheduled self-care can play a huge part in how healthy you’ll be and how youthful you’ll remain with each passing year. Budgeting time and money for bodywork at consistent intervals is truly an investment in your health. And remember: just because massage feels like a pampering treat doesn’t mean it is any less therapeutic. Whether it be therapeutic, pampering, rejuvenating, or even good for the soul. The reasons we seek this form of holistic medicine (pain management, stress relief, or a luxurious treat) is for the benefits massage provides. Massage therapy can be a powerful tool in your health care plan.
Help Yourself to Feeling Better
- 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
- 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
- Reduce post surgery adhesions and swelling
