It can also greatly reduce the development of painful muscular patterning, if employed early enough after accidents involving trauma and injury.
Therapeutic massage is currently the most common form of therapy practiced.
Education and examination of massage therapists is regulated by the College of Massage Therapists of Ontario. Students complete 2,200 hours of intensive anatomical, physiological, and clinical studies, including extensive practical instruction, at a government approved vocational massage therapy school. Many of today's health problems arise from stress. Because stress upsets the delicate integral balance of all your body's functions, regaining this balance requires a rehabilitative approach. Massage therapy not only treats those parts of you which are a problem, but also affects the whole of your metabolism through normalizing your circulatory, muscular and nervous systems and their interdependent functioning.