Massage is generally considered part of complementary and alternative medicine.
It's increasingly being offered along with standard treatment for a wide range of medical conditions and situations.
Studies
of the benefits of massage demonstrate that it is an effective
treatment for reducing stress, pain and muscle tension.
While
more research is needed to confirm the benefits of massage, some
studies have found massage may also be helpful for:
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Anxiety
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Digestive
disorders
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Fibromyalgia
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Headaches
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Insomnia
related to stress
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Myofascial
pain syndrome
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Paresthesias
and nerve pain
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Soft
tissue strains or injuries
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Sports
injuries
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Temporomandibular
joint pain
Beyond
the benefits for specific conditions or diseases, some people enjoy
massage because it often involves caring, comfort, a sense of
empowerment and creating deep connections with their massage
therapist.
Despite
its benefits, massage isn't meant as a replacement for regular
medical care.
Let your doctor know you're trying massage and be sure
to follow any standard treatment plans you have.
Anxiety
Digestive
disorders
Fibromyalgia
Headaches
Insomnia
related to stress
Myofascial
pain syndrome
Paresthesias
and nerve pain
Soft
tissue strains or injuries
Sports
injuries
Temporomandibular
joint pain
1.Improves Flexibility
Muscle
injuries are more common now than they were 50 years ago. That's not
because we're exercising harder.
It's because we're more sedentary.
What's worse, as we age our joints tend to tighten, making range of
motion and flexibility even more restricted.
Massage
therapy is a beneficial treatment for maintaining and improving
flexibility and motion.
By working on muscles, connective tissues,
tendons, ligaments, and joints, regular massage can improve your
flexibility and range of motion, keeping your joints more fluid and
making them less injury prone.
2.Lowers Blood Pressure
One
effective way to stave off high blood pressure naturally is massage
therapy.
Long-term studies have shown that a consistent massage
program can decrease diastolic and systolic blood pressure; decrease
salivary and urinary cortisol stress-hormone levels; and lower
sources for depression, anxiety and hostility.
3.Rehabilitation after any injury
Rehabilitating
any injury can be a tiring and frustrating process. While the main
goal of physical rehabilitation is to increase strength and
flexibility, it often ends before the area has been returned to its
full pre-injury state.
Massage
plays an important role as a supplement to standard injury
rehabilitation procedures. By encouraging circulatory movement and
relaxing muscles, massage helps the body pump more oxygen and
nutrients into tissues and vital organs.
This allows the
rehabilitating injured area(s) to become more flexible and heal at an
accelerated rate.
4.Counteracts all that sitting you do
Desk
workers, beware. More advanced forms of postural stress “show up as
pain or weakness in the low back and gluteals caused by prolonged
periods of sitting.”
Luckily,
massage can counteract the imbalance caused from sitting, which means
you can keep your desk job—as long as you schedule a regular
massage.
Luckily, massage can counteract the imbalance caused from sitting, which means you can keep your desk job—as long as you schedule a regular massage.
5. improves sleep
Not
only can massage encourage a restful sleep—it also helps those who
can’t otherwise comfortably rest.
Also, if you’re a new parent, you’ll be happy to know it can help infants sleep more, cry less and be less stressed, according to research from the University of Warwick.
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