Current research is beginning to validate what most clients already know about massage therapy: it can help ease or prevent many common ailments that are often treated with prescription drugs and/or hospitalization. Massage therapy is based on the ability of the body to naturally heal itself.

Massage has been shown to:

  • Decrease stress
  • Increase circulation
  • Release muscle tightness
  • Improve joint range of motion and flexibility
  • Release endorphins
  • Diminish aches and pains
  • Reduce anxiety and depression associated with
    • anorexia and bulimia
    • post traumatic stress disorder, and
    • chronic fatigue syndrome

For more information about massage in general, go to: www.massagetherapy.com.
Two great articles about the benefits of massage are: http://www.massagetherapy.com/articles/index.php/article_id/1080
and http://www.massagetherapy.com/articles/index.php/article_id/468.