Benefits of Massage Therapy

With your visits you maybe asked to schedule a massage. Of course we want you to relax, but more importantly we want you to feel good-and that means taking Good Care of Yourself. A massage has many benefits some of them include:

Benefits to your skeletal systems:

• Massage improves the circulation and nutrition of the joints and helps increase your range of joint movement.
• Massage reduces joint strain and compression through releasing tight muscles and tendons.
• Massage increases the ease and efficiency of your movements.
• Massage helps to increase the retention of nitrogen, phosphorous, and sulphur in the bones and this aids in fracture healing.
  
  
  

  Benefits to your circulatory systems:

• Massage increases the nutrition of the tissues via an increased exchange of fluids and materials.
• Massage, via the mechanical actions on the soft tissues, produces a dilation of the blood vessels which helps to improve your circulation.
• Massage helps to reduce the lack of blood and by direct pressure and stimulation reduces pain due to the irritation of nerves that control your circulatory system.
• Massage enhances the elimination of the waste products of your metabolism.
• Massage helps to reduce any swelling and contusions.
• Massage increases the number of red blood cells in your circulation.
• Massage facilitates tissue healing through the enhancement of circulation.
• Massage increases tissue fluid and assists lymphatic circulation thus reducing swelling and enhancing the immune and filtering activities of this system.
• Massage increases both your venous and lymphatic flow
  
  
  

  Benefits to your nervous system:

• Massage can have a sedative, stimulating or even exhausting effect on the nervous system depending on the type and length of treatment given.
• Massage stimulates the touch, pressure and proprioceptive receptors of the skin and underlying tissue.
• Massage helps to balance the autonomic nervous system.
• Massage relaxes the muscles and helps to re-establish proper tonus through its effect on the neuromuscular reflex pathways.