Experts say more than 90% of disease is related to stress. And perhaps nothing ages us faster, inside and out, than high stress. Therefore, massage is an effective tool for managing this stress, which translates into the following massage benefits:
- Less anxiety
- Enhanced sleep quality
- Greater energy
- Improved focus
- Better circulation
- Less fatigue
Those are just a few of the many benefits of massage. Massage can also help address a number of health issues. For example, specific massage benefits include:
- Firstly, relieve low-back pain and neck pain and improve range of motion.
- Assist with shorter, easier labor for pregnant women and shorten hospital stays.
- Ease need for pills
- Stimulate lymph flow—the body’s natural defense system.
- Exercise and stretch weak or tight muscles.
- Help athletes of any level prepare for, and recover from, heavy workouts.
- Improve the state of the body’s largest organ—the skin.
- Increase joint freedom.
- Lessen depression and anxiety.
- Promote tissue recovery, reducing scar tissue and stretch marks.
- Pump oxygen and nutrients into tissues and vital organs, improving circulation.
- Reduce swelling after surgery.
- Reduce spasms and cramping.
- Relax and soften injured, tired, and overused muscles.
- Release amino acids that work as the body’s natural painkiller.
- And finally, relieve migraine headache pain.
