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Massage Benefits Offers More than Just Relaxation

When people think about a massage they often think about a soft relaxing environment where they can temporarily escape and work out the kinks in their bodies. However, massage therapy has shown to offer more benefits than most people realize.

More people are discovering massage therapy to enhance a more balanced lifestyle both physically and emotionally. Massage therapy has been shown to be medially beneficial in the following ways:

Massage has been found to relieve stress. Unfortunately, stress has been attributed to a whole host of medical conditions from high-blood pressure, increased heart rate, and higher insulin levels which can cause hypoglycemia, diabetes or obesity.

Massage encourages someone to recover through relaxation. Studies have shown that massage helps the body enter into a resting mode that promotes the bodies ability to recover from exhaustion and other physical aliments.

Massage improves someone’s posture. Bad posture has been studied to cause a number of health conditions including: headaches, back and shoulder pain, reduced lung function and gastrointestinal pains. Some of these conditions can be long term and degrades a persons quality of life.

Massage improves cardiovascular circulation. The pressure caused by a therapeutic massage helps to stimulate the movement of blood through congested areas. When the body’s circulatory system is working properly then a person naturally feels better from lowered blood pressure and improved bodily functions.

Massage helps reduce high blood pressure. Scientific studies have shown that continual therapeutic massage can decrease the diastolic and the systolic blood pressure, decrease the urinary cortisol hormone levels in the body – which can cause depression, anxiety and hostility.

Massage helps relax muscles. More and more jobs require sitting for longer periods of time. Unfortunately, neck and shoulder pain are common issues where a person sits stationary or has bad posture. A massage helps get to the bottom of muscular pain by increasing flexibility and increased blood flow. It helps to reduce swelling of inflamed tissue as well.

Massage improves body flexibility and better range of motion. With age, joints become stiff and the rang of motion is compromised severely. Massage help to stretch the muscles, ligaments, tendons, and connective tissues allowing freedom of full range motion.

Massage helps people to breath easier. Anxiety and stress are shown to cause people problems when breathing. Constricted breathing can lead to a whole list of health issues including headaches, spasms, tiredness and increased blood pressure. Massage can help relax a person’s body to breath normally by loosening the muscles around the rib cage.

Massage helps relieve headaches. Millions of people suffer from headaches daily. Oftentimes the severity of headaches can debilitate a person to the point they are unable to function at all. Therapeutic massage has shown to reduce migraines by relaxing tension areas.

Massage helps boost the immune system. When the body is hurting or stressed and out of balance, this lowers it’s ability to fight off infection and sickness. Massage has been shown to relieve stress, increase circulation, provide better sleep and overall increase the quality of a healthy life.

Massage improves recovery after surgery. For some, recovery after surgery can be take a long time. The post-op recovery process can be complicated by pain, infection and a medication suppressed immune system. Massage helps the circulation provide needed blood flow to the affected areas of the body accelerating the healing. Massage also relaxes muscles putting less stress on incision areas relieving pain.

Massage has been proven, scientifically, to produce positive effects for all the above conditions. The Spa at Spring Ridge offers a complete line of therapeutic massages to fit almost every one. The Spa at Spring Ridge is located in Wyomissing, adjacent to Reading, PA.