This Benefits of Massage page is primarily provided by ABMP (Associated Bodywork & Massage Professionals). Experts estimate that upwards of ninety percent of disease is stress-related. And perhaps nothing ages us faster, internally and externally, than high stress. Massage is an effective tool for managing this stress, which translates into:
- Reduce pain, feel like yourself again
- Greater energy / reduced fatigue
- Relief from achy joints and headaches
- Eliminate swelling and inflammation
- Enhanced sleep quality
- Keep doing what brings you joy
Massage can also help specifically address a number of health issues. Bodywork can:
- Reduce pain, feel like yourself again.
- 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.
- Exercise and stretch weak, tight, or atrophied muscles.
- 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.
- Pump oxygen and nutrients into tissues and vital organs, improving circulation.
- Reduce postsurgery adhesions and swelling.
- Reduce spasms and cramping.
- Relax and soften injured, tired, and overused muscles.
- Release endorphins—amino acids that work as the body's natural painkiller.
- Relieve migraine pain.
- Relieve head aches, neck pain, rotator cuff strains, back pain, sciatica, thoracic outlet, piriformis syndrome, tennis elbow, golfers elbow and carpel tunnel syndrome.
Body Sense online magazine
Body Sense blends features on a variety of massage therapy modalities with tips for healthy living. Readers emerge with a better understanding of bodywork, inspired to book another session. The Body Sense philosophy considers massage therapy an integral facet of a healthy lifestyle, not just an indulgence.
