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Massage Therapy: A Guide to Its Health Benefits

Body massage is a popular way to relax and get relief from pain and stress. But studies have shown that it is much more than that. In fact, a growing number of people are waking up to its therapeutic uses. Massage therapy at the hand of trained professionals can improve your overall wellbeing by providing relief from stress and migraine, improving your body posture, improving your blood circulation, decreasing your blood pressure and strengthening your immune system.

1. Provides relief from stress

Constant stress is bad for your physical and emotional wellbeing. It affects our body, mood and behavior. You can become anxious, irritated, restless, angry, sad and depressed. Physically, you may suffer from headache, chest pain, stomach ache, fatigue, inability to sleep, loss of appetite and loss of sexual desire. Massage therapy can relax your muscles, lower your heart rate and increases the production of endorphin, which is your body's natural feel good chemical. It also helps release serotonin and dopamine, chemicals that make it easier to overcome stress.

2. Helps improve posture

Today's work environment contributes to bad posture, which is bad not only for appearance but for your health as well. It forces some of your muscles to work harder than others, resulting in undue pressure on your internal organs, digestive system, blood circulation and breathing. Massage therapy loosens the muscles made stiff by bad posture, allows the joints to move more freely and relieves pain from pressure points. As a result, your body regains its pain-free natural posture.

3. Helps improve blood circulation and lower blood pressure:

Poor blood circulation can result in fatigue, ache, discomfort and lack of energy. Massage therapy facilitates blood circulation by putting pressure on blood to move through congested areas. It also helps improve the circulation of lymph fluids that carry away metabolic wastes from muscles and internal organs by flushing out the lactic acid accumulated in the muscles, which results in better blood circulation and improved body functions. Massage therapy can also decrease both systolic and diastolic blood pressure.

4. Provides relief from migraine:

Migraine is a neurological disorder that is characterized by chronic headache, which can be debilitating. It is often caused by high stress and lack of sleep. Massage therapy helps cure migraine by relaxing your nerves and by freeing your body from stress and pain, especially in the neck, shoulders and head area.

5. Helps strengthen the immune system:

Studies have shown that massage therapy increases the body's immune system by increasing the production of the natural killer cells (which fight disease-causing germs) and decreasing the number of T-cells that lower the capacity to fight diseases. By doing so, it enhances the body's ability to get nourishment, which improves overall health.

In addition to the above, regular massage therapy can make you healthier, stronger and happier by improving your breathing and flexibility of motion, relaxing your muscles and calming you mind. It has also been found to expedite post-operative recovery and healing of other injuries by helping deliver more oxygen and nutrients to the body's tissues and vital organs.
 
 

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