Benefits of Massage
Massage is considered a part of complementary and alternative medicine. Massage is increasingly becoming a part of the standard treatment for a range of medical conditions and situations. Massage has proven to be an effective treatment and beneficial to:
- Relieve stress
- Improve circulation
- Relieve postoperative pain
- Reduce anxiety
- Manage low-back-pain
- Enhance immunity by stimulation of lymph flow
- Promote tissue regeneration (reduce wrinles, scar tissue, and stretch marks)
- Help fibromyalgia pain
- Reduce muscle tension
- Enhance exercise performance
- Relieve tension headaches
- Sleep better
- Ease symptoms of depression
- Improve cardiovascular health
- Reduce pain of osteoarthritis
- Decrease stress in cancer patients
- Improve balance in older adults
- Decrease rheumatoid arthritis pain
- Temper effects of dementia
- Promote relaxation
- Lower blood pressure
- Decrease symptoms of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
- Help chronic neck pain
- Lower joint replacement pain
- Increase range of motion
- Decrease migraine frequency
- Improve quality of life in hospice care
- Reduce chemotherapy-related nausea