Massage tHERAPY
MASSAGE
Massage is a general term for pressing, rubbing and manipulating your skin, muscles, tendons and ligaments. Massage may range from light stroking to deep pressure. It's generally considered part of integrative medicine.
Massage is increasingly being offered along with standard treatment for a wide range of medical conditions and situations. If you have never tried massage, read on to learn about its many benefits.
A common misconception about massage is that it's only part of a spa day and intended for pampering yourself. While this may be true for some people, it is most frequently a tool for stress reduction and pain relief.
Some specific conditions that massage can help include:
- Anxiety
- Depression
- Digestive disorders
- Fibromyalgia
- Headache
- Insomnia
- Nerve pain
- Postoperative care
- Scar tissue
- Soft tissue strains and injuries
- Sports injuries
- Temporomandibular (TMJ) disorders
- Physical benefits
For most patients, massage therapy is an important part of specific medical treatment plans to help them return to daily activities. For example, massage therapy is helpful after joint replacement surgery or injury.
Physical benefits of massage include:
- Improved circulation
- Decreased muscle stiffness
- Decreased joint inflammation
- Better quality of sleep
- Quicker recovery between workouts
- Improved flexibility
- Less pain and soreness
- Strengthened immune response
- Mental benefits
Massage also has many mental health benefits. Even people who are focused on the physical benefits say they feel less stressed after getting a massage.
What to expect after a Massage:
Physical benefits of massage include:
feeling relaxed and experiencing less pain.
A professional massage is more than an ordinary backrub. The whole point of a theraputic massage is to release that tension, work out the kinks and help your body relax so it can function at an optimal level. WHen receiving a massage ensure that the blood gets pushed throuigh the muscles so that in turn the muscle can start working properly again.
- Massage provides a significant amount of input to the central nervous system and the body responds to that increased information.
- Pain and other occasional after effects may be the result of a system that has received more information than it can handle at that particular time. And because the amount of sensory input we receive during any day or seek is always fluctuating, sometimes we may be overlaoded and other times not.
- It depends on the total stress (emotional, spiritual, and physical) being experineced by the body at that moment.
-Take your table getting off the table. Immediately after the massage you may feel light headed or dizzy. We have water available to help you rehydrate.
Drink water before and after Massage
Drinking water after a massage has to do with substances released by the muscles as the massage therapist manipulates thems, this helps the body flush out any accumulated materials in the muscles which were released during the massage.
Especially in the case of a deep tissue massage, massage stimulates circulation in the body while expressing water, salt, and other minerals from the muscles, and the circulation is designed to carry away waste materials generated by cells.
By providing the body with plenty of water, massage clients can help sweep away these waste materials; otherswise they might build up, causing muscle aches and soreness after the massage.
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EXERCISE
SUPPLIMENTS
SUPPLIMENTS
At Whispering Acres Massage Therapy, our mission is to help our clients achieve optimal health and wellness through the healing power of massage therapy. We believe that regular massage can improve your overall well-being and enhance your quality of life.
SUPPLIMENTS
SUPPLIMENTS
SUPPLIMENTS
People take suppliments to improve their health and reduce the risks of obtaining certain diseases. Whispering Acres can assist you in discovering what suppliments may be right for you.
NUTRITION
SUPPLIMENTS
NUTRITION
Proper nutition is key to improved health and mental well being.
Discovering what foods your body is asking for while working to eliminate processed foods from your diet will help you see many benefits and health goals can be achieved.