Benefits
What if the secret to good health and well-being lies not in medication or surgery, but in your hands that have healing power?
Touch represents the basis of all forms of massage and bodywork. Being a holistic therapy, touch creates a natural healing process that connects body, mind, and spirit. It may be the oldest form of healing, even perhaps the most powerful way of giving and receiving love, care, and comfort. All of us, every human being, even the animal world, has an innate wisdom of healing power that can be activated by touch or massage movement and the body can heal itself, if given the opportunity.
Prior to the 19th century, massage therapy was used for many medical conditions, such as anemia, neuritis, laryngitis, bronchitis, colds, constipation, heart diseases, diabetes, arthritis, rheumatism, sprains, fractures, fibromyalgia, digestive disorders. multiple sclerosis, and much more.
Today, we witness a resurgence of interest in massage therapy for various medial complaints and rehabilitation. At last massage therapy is gaining a better reputation because of proven and realistic benefits, extensive research and increased professionalization. Such research has indicated, overwhelmingly, that the health benefits of massage therapy and bodywork are many and varied and continue to be widely acknowledged due to ongoing research. All of our eleven body systems can benefit in some way or other, some more than others. While bodywork is not intended as a substitute for conventional medical care, properly trained and certified body workers can play an important adjunctive role in the treatment of a number of disease conditions, as well as restoring structural balance, which can improve respiration and enhance muscle tension and promote relaxation is well known and recognized by conventional and holistic practitioners alike, as well as increasing numbers of the general public.
Therapeutic massage offers a broad range of scientifically validated benefits. These include relief for muscle pain and spasms, spinal curvatures such as scoliosis and lordosis, pain due to injury or stress, headache, whiplash, tension-related respiratory condition (including asthma, bronchitis, and emphysema), cardiovascular conditions, and temperomandibular joint syndrome (TMJ). Massage has also been effective for correcting body posture and relieving musculoskeletal disorders, improving range of motion, eliminating toxins from the body, and reducing swelling. It can reduce swelling caused by fractures, increase blood circulation, aid in relieving constipation and promote overall elimination, and can help reduce scar tissue and adhesions. Sinus and lung congestion can have a soothing effect on the nervous system. Anxiety and depression, even due to chronic fatigue syndrome can be helped. Furthermore, rheumatoid arthritis and fibromyalgia can benefit from massage.