After five weeks, control group participants were offered complimentary massage. Researchers concluded, based on other studies, that massage therapy was responsible for either the improved sleep or the immediately lessened headache pain. Stress is a necessary part of life. During this phase of distress, certain psychological changes begin to take place. The heart beats faster from increrased adrenaline production.
More blood flows into the larger muscles.
The functions of the immune and digestive systmes are inhibited. Due to a suppressed immune and digestive system the normal functioning of the body is out of balance. In essence we are describing a person who has been in the dis-ease phase of stress for too long. Testing was done by Hans Selye, a Montreal physician, to discover the long-term effects of stress. Dr. Seyle's research showed that a person experiencing a prolonged period of dis-ease had a higher probability of entering the disease portion of the stress syndrome, than a person who was taking some precautions or actions to address the stress in their lives.