Aromatherapy Deep Tissue Massage Sports Massage General Relaxation Trigger Points Benefits of Massage Massage relaxes muscle contractions, spasms, and relieves general body tensions. The benefits of massage include relieving stress, improving muscle tone, circulation and range of motion, increase of blood supply to muscles and tissues.
Massage can relieve some of the discomfort from fibromyalgia and tension headaches.
Massage increases the blood supply and nutrition to muscles without adding to their load of toxic lactic acid, produced through voluntary muscle contraction. Massage improves muscle tone and helps prevent or delay muscular atrophy resulting from forced inactivity. Massage stretches connective tissues, improves its circulation and nutrition and so breaks down or prevents the formation of adhesions and reduces the danger of fibrosis. Transverse massage separates muscle fibers, undoing or preventing the formation of adhesions and trigger points. Massage disperses the edema following injury to ligaments and tendons, lesson pain, tissue damage, and helps facilitates movement.