Massage Therapy Benefits

• Alleviates discomfort during pregnancy
• Creates body awareness
• Encourages a healthy metabolism
• Emotional relief from anxiety and depression
• Enhances athletic performance
• Enhances capacity for calm thinking and creativity
• Enhances general relaxation
• Enhances tissue elasticity and flexibility
• Facilitates the body’s own self healing mechanisms
• Fosters faster healing of strained muscles and sprained ligaments
• Helps your muscles recover more quickly from exertion and fatigue
• Helps prevent muscular atrophy (wasting from injury and paralysis)
• Helps relieve muscle tension and stiffness
• Helps relieve stress and aids relaxation
• Helps relieve tension-related headaches and effects of eye-strain
• Helps strengthen the immune system
• Helps to re-establish your proper muscular tone
• Helps lower blood pressure
• Improves ability to monitor stress signals and respond appropriately
• Improves circulation of blood and movement of lymph fluids
• Improves ability to concentrate
• Improves immune system functioning
• Improves energy flow
• Improves sleep
• Increases ease of movement
• Increases feelings of well-being
• Increases sense of the connection of mind as part of the body
• Increases range of motion in joints
• Post injury rehabilitation
• Post operative repair
• Promotes a relaxed state of mental alertness
• Promotes deeper and easier breathing
• Promotes well nourished - healthy skin
• Promotes postural awareness
• Provides greater joint flexibility and range of motion
• Reduces formation of excessive scar tissue
• Reduces muscular tension and associated discomfort
• Reduces pain and swelling
• Reduces blood pressure
• Reduces muscle spasms
• Relaxes tight muscles
• Relieves muscle aches and stiffness
• Relieves congestion in the lungs
• Satisfies needs for caring nurturing touch
• Speeds recovery from ailments
• Supports increased work capacity
• Treats injuries like repetitive strains caused during sport or work
• Treats musculoskeletal problems

 

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What We Treat – conditions and ailments that massage therapy can help;

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