You take time to care for your family, friends, pets, career, home and future. To do all this it’s important to make time to care for yourself. Massage is a simple way to help heal your mind, body and spirit. There are many benefits to massage therapy, here are just a few:
- Massage exercises and stretches weak, tight, or atrophied muscles
- Helps athletes of any level prepare for, and recover from, strenuous workouts
- Improve mood and lessens anxiety through massage
- Massage therapy can help expectant mothers with shorter, easier labor
- Enhances immunity by stimulating lymph flow – the body’s natural defense system
- Improves the condition of the body’s largest organ – the skin
- Massage is known to increase joint flexibility
- Promotes tissue regeneration, reducing scar tissue and stretch marks
- Massage pumps oxygen and nutrients into tissues and vital organs, improving circulation
- Massage is GREAT for stress reduction
- Massage therapy reduces spasms and cramping
- Alleviates low-back pain and improves range of motion
- Relaxes and softens injured, tired, and overused muscles
- Releases endorphins – amino acids that work as the body’s natural painkiller
- Massage therapy helps relieve migraine pain