Make Massage a part of your Healthy Lifestyle

Getting a massage isn't just being pampered, it's necessary to maintain optimal health and well-being. There are many more benefits of massage than just relaxation and stress reduction. Setting up a routine for regular massages, and even a single massage, has been proven to alleviate many physical and psychological concerns that may have become chronic, debilitating issues. Research studies have shown that getting a massage can reduce depression, stress, and anxiety, according to the American Massage Therapy Association (AMTA). Beyond improving your mood, studies have also shown that massage therapy treatments can also:

• Increase energy

• Remove toxins from your body

• Increase collagen and elastin fibers

• Relieve postoperative pain

• Reduce digestive disorders

• Manage low-back pain

• Help alleviate fibromyalgia pain

• Reduce muscle tension

• Enhance exercise performance and increase range of motion

• Relieve tension and migraine headaches

• Help with insomnia and sleep-related issues

• Lessen temporomandibular joint pain

• Improve cardiovascular health and blood and lymph circulation

• Reduce pain of osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis pain

• Decrease stress, anxiety, nausea in cancer patients

• Ease aches associated with overuse and/or injury

• Lower blood pressure

• Improve Immunity

• Help chronic neck and back pain

• Lower joint replacement pain

Just how often you require a massage for the best results depends on your stress level, lifestyle, and the condition being treated. Massage every 4 weeks, or more often if you'd prefer, is recommended as maintenance for those with sedentary lifestyles and lower stress levels . Massages may be necessary more often for those that are active, have high stress levels, and for those that utilize massage therapy for pain management. You will have a consultation with your massage therapist to discuss your your preferences and concerns, and develop a massage treatment plan that is right for you.

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