What to Expect
Massage improves overall health and well-being by effecting body, mind, spirit and emotions.
- The greatest benefits result from regular treatments, rather than waiting for your body to feel pain or stress due to manifestations of dis-ease in the body.
- Improves circulation - Increases circulation of blood and lymph nourishing tissues and vital organs with oxygen and nutrients (blood) and removing metabolic wastes and toxins (lymph).
- Increases joint flexibility and range of motion – promotes optimal joint function
- Reduces muscle spasms and cramps
- Relieves muscle tension and stiffness – relaxes and softens overused, overstressed muscles, thereby improving muscle tone.
- Relieves myofascial trigger points - helps to reduce pain and interrupt the pain-spasm-pain cycle.
- Enhances athletic performance - Reduces muscle recovery time helping athletes of all levels prepare for and recover from strenuous workouts.
- Improves posture - Promotes proper body alignment and increases body awareness.
- Promotes faster healing and improves rehabilitation after injury - Improves health and pliability of tissues, breaks up adhesions, enhances tissue repair and reduces formation of excessive scar tissue.
- Improves post-operative rehabilitation - Promotes healthy scar tissue formation and reduces edema after surgery or injury.
- Reduces blood pressure
- Strengthens the immune system – Stimulates lymph flow which is the body’s natural defense system. It also improves immunity by way of stress reduction.
- Promotes optimal breathing – Encourages diaphragmatic breathing, relaxes muscles of respiration and promotes optimal structural alignment.
- Reduces stress and promotes relaxation - Stimulates the parasympathetic nervous system or relaxation response.
- Lowers anxiety and stress hormones
- Facilitates emotional release – Unexpressed emotions that are held in the body may come to the surface and be released, thereby enhancing the physical and psychological healing process
- Increases feelings of general wellbeing – Raises mood-elevating brain chemicals, such as serotonin and the release of endorphins.
Specific conditions helped by massage include:
- Allergies
- Arthritis
- Asthma and Chronic Bronchitis
- Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
- Scoliosis
- Fibromyalgia
- Depression and Anxiety
- Digestive disorders such as IBS
- Headaches – both tension and migraine
- Insomnia
- Injury Rehabilitation
- Recovery for surgery, auto or biking accidents, or other traumatic events
- Sports injuries
- TMD (jaw pain)
- PMS
- Chronis tension and pain from repetitive stress
- Low Back
- Shoulders
- Head and Neck
