Anyone who has had a massage, well we could all certainly agree that the post-massage feeling is wonderful. Clients often find themselves saying: “I can’t wait to get another massage!” But when should you book an appointment for another massage? How soon is too soon? Is more frequent better for your body? But what if the way to feel happier, improve your sleep, kill it at your workout routine and all of that better stuff, is right at your fingertips, or in this case, someone else's?
1 . Regular Massage
Here are just a few to list.
- Helps with pain relief
- Helps to decrease anxiety and depression
- Helps fight stress
- Improves flexibility and range of motion
When we humans are constantly in a fight-or-flight mode, over time, it can negatively impact our immune system, resulting in fatigue and burn out.
Massage brings you out of the fight-or-flight mode and into the rest-and-digest mode for an hour or 90 minutes, twice a month, once a month or however often you get a massage.
During a massage, you get to sit and be still; that, in and of itself, is relaxing.
2.Massage fights off insomnia.
If you struggle to get a good night's rest, massage can help with that. A lack of serotonin has been linked to sleepless nights, did you know a massage can helps spike levels of the snooze-worthy chemical, it can help you doze off. (Need more help getting proper ZZZs? These little changed you make during the day could help you sleep better at night.) What are you waiting for, book your next session!
3. Massage increases your range of motion.
Flexibility not really your thing? By treating yourself to a session, you may just be able to pull off that pyramid pose in yoga. Massage loosens up muscles and increases circulation, which helps pump oxygen to joints. All are key in keeping your body limber. And if it's inflammation that's limiting your mobility, letting yourself get a good squeeze reduces the presence of cytokines, proteins that lead to inflammation.
4.Massage Therapy Can Relieve Headaches
Since many tension headaches and migraine headaches are accompanied by neck pain, headache sufferers find that manual therapies such as massage offer relief from headache pain and related symptoms. Because massage therapy relaxes tense muscles, relieves muscle spasms, improves blood flow and aids relaxation, it can be helpful for relieving the pain of both tension and vascular headaches.
5.Massage keeps sickness at bay.
Getting kneaded out could boost your body's immune system. One of the benefits of massage is that it leads to an increase in the circulation of white blood cells. Massage increases the activity of white blood cells that help our body fight diseases and may help with reduction of cortisol.
Written By:
Elizabeth Riger Igielski