tify" color="#000000" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Massage
helps your muscles recover
more quickly from exertion and fatigue.
Massage
relaxes your muscles,
effectively reducing spasms, tension and cramping.
Massage
reduces and breaks down adhesions (knots) and fibrosis.
Massage
stretches your connective
tissue.
Massage
helps to re-establish your
proper muscular tone.
Massage
reduces your muscle and soft
tissue pain.
Massage
supports increased work
capacity and encourages your metabolism.
Massage
helps to prevent muscular
atrophy (wasting from injury and paralysis).
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- Massage
improves the circulation and
nutrition of the joints and helps increase your range of joint
movement.
- Massage
reduces joint strain and
compression through releasing tight muscles and tendons.
- Massage
increases the ease and
efficiency of your movements.
- Massage
helps to increase the
retention of nitrogen, phosphorous, and sulfur in the bones and this
aids in fracture healing.
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- Massage
increases the nutrition of
the tissues via an increased exchange of fluids and materials.
- Massage,
via the mechanical actions
on the soft tissues, produces a dilation of the blood vessels which
helps to improve your circulation.
- Massage
helps to reduce the lack of
blood and by direct pressure and stimulation reduces pain due to the
irritation of nerves that control your circulatory system.
- Massage
enhances the elimination of
the waste products of your metabolism.
- Massage
helps to reduce any swelling
and contusions.
- Massage
increases the number of red
blood cells in your circulation.
- Massage
has the overall effect of
lowering your blood pressure and reduces your pulse rate*.
- Massage
facilitates tissue healing
through the enhancement of circulation.
- Massage
increases tissue fluid and
assists lymphatic circulation thus reducing swelling and enhancing the
immune and filtering activities of this system.
- Massage
increases both your venous
and lymphatic flow
*Its
shown to normalize blood pressure so it may raise pressure in
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- Massage
can have a sedative,
stimulating or even exhausting effect on the nervous system depending
on the type and length of treatment given.
- Massage
stimulates the touch,
pressure and proprioceptive receptors of the skin and underlying
tissue.
- Massage
helps to balance the
autonomic nervous system.
- Massage
relaxes the muscles and helps
to re-establish proper tonus through its effect on the neuromuscular
reflex pathways.
- Massage
is known to affect the
neurotransmitters of the brain and increase endorphin secretion in
particular (natural painkillers).
- Massage
can help reduce nerve
entrapment through the release of soft tissue or muscular binding.
- Massage
can reduce nerve root
compression caused by muscular tension.
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- Massage
aides the normal movement throughout your alimentary canal assisting
with many dysfunction's through its stress releasing effects.
- Massage
increases the excretion (via the kidneys) of fluids and waste products
of protein metabolism, inorganic phosphorous and salt in normal
individuals.
- Massage
can facilitate elimination through the large intestines by mechanically
stimulating peristalsis and improving tone.
- Massage
stimulates peristalsis and can reduce cramping or spasm in the
digestive tract.
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- Massage
helps to reduce tension in
the skin and adjoining tissues as well as increasing its circulation
and improve its nutrition.
- Massage
depending on the medium used
to apply it can help to re-moisturize, and soften dry skin.
- Massage can help with some skin
conditions like eczema, but please check with your Doctor to make sure
that what you have is not contagious.
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- Massage
deepens and normalizes the breathing pattern through relaxation, and
release of tension in the breathing structures, both the rib cage and
the muscles of respiration.
- Massage
can help to relieve congestion in the lungs through percussive and
compressive movements.
- Massage
increases the action of the heart, stimulating the blood flow to and
from the lungs, helping with the elimination of waste and the
absorption of oxygen.
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