What is Massage Therapy?
When you hear Massage Therapy, what do you think of it? Most would say “relaxation” and some would say “luxury.” Massage Therapy can help with relaxation but it can do more for your health. Massage Therapy can help with decreasing stress and headaches, managing chronic pain, post-operative care, and soft tissue injuries, help manage symptoms of anxiety and depression along with many other diagnoses. Physically, Massage Therapy can help improve circulation and strengthen immune response, reduce swelling, decrease muscle stiffness, improve flexibility, increase range of motion, and give you a better quality of sleep. Massage has aided in reducing cortisol and increasing serotonin and dopamine. Massage Therapy addresses your wellness throughout many different systems in your body: circulatory, nervous, lymphatic, immune, and muscular. In life, it usually is not one thing that causes pain, discomfort, stress, etc. Massage Therapy is another tool that can be used to help achieve goals during everyday life.