The Beneficial Effects of Massage

• Massage dilates the blood vessels, improving the circulation and relieving congestion throughout the body.
• Massage acts as a "mechanical cleanser," stimulating lymph circulations and hastening the elimination of wastes and toxic debris.
• Massage relaxes muscle spasms and relieves tension. Massage increases blood supply and nutrition to muscles without adding to the load of toxic lactic acid, produced through voluntary muscle contraction.
• Massage helps to prevent buildup of harmful "fatigue" products resulting from strenuous exercise or injury.
• Massage improves muscle tone and helps prevent or delay muscular atrophy resulting from forced inactivity.
• Massage can compensate, in part, for lack of exercise and muscular contraction in persons who because of injury, illness or age are forced to remain inactive. In these cases, massage helps return venous blood to the heart and so eases the strain on this vital organ.
• Massage may have a sedative, stimulating or even exhausting effect on the nervous system depending on the type and length of massage treatment given.
• Massage, by improving the general circulation, increases nutrition of the tissues. It is accompanied by or follows an increased interchange of substances between the blood and tissue cells heightening tissue metabolism.
• Massage increases the excretion (via kidneys) of fluids and waste products of protein metabolism, inorganic phosphorus and salt in normal individuals.
• Massage encourages the retention of nitrogen, phosphorus and sulfur necessary for tissue repair in persons convalescing from bone fractures.
• Massage stretches connective tissue, improves its circulation and nutrition and so breaks down or prevents the formation of adhesions.
• Massage improves the circulation and nutrition of joints and hastens the elimination of harmful deposits. It helps lessen inflammation and swelling in joints and so alleviates pain.
• Massage helps to reduce edema of the extremities.
• Massage disperses the edema following injury to ligaments and tendons, lessens pain and facilities movement.
• Massage Makes You Feel Good.