Help Yourself to Health
What exactly are the benefits of receiving massage or bodywork treatments? Useful for all of the conditions listed below and more, massage can:
- Alleviate low-back pain and improve range of
- Assist with shorter, easier labor for expectant mothers and shorten maternity hospital
- Ease medication dependence.
- Enhance immunity by stimulating lymph flow—the body’s natural defense
- 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
- 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 post-surgery adhesions and swell- ing.
- Reduce spasms and cramping.
- Relax and soften injured, tired, and over- used muscles.
- Release endorphins—amino acids that work as the body’s natural
- Relieve migraine
To learn more about the many types of massage and bodywork, visit www.massagetherapy.com.
