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.
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.
