Benefits Of Massage 

 

1.  Massage dilates or opens blood vessels,
improving the circulation and relieving congestion.

2.  Massage increases the number of
red blood cells, especially useful in cases of anemia.

3.  Massage acts as a "mechanical cleanser" pushing
along lymph and hastening the elimination of
wastes and toxic debris.

4.  Massage relaxes muscle spasm and relieves tension.

5.  Massage increases the blood supply and nutrition to
muscles without adding to their load of toxic lactic acid,
produced through voluntary muscle contraction. Thus
massage helps to overcome harmful "fatigue" products
resulting from strenuous exercise or injury.

6.  Massage improves muscle tone and helps
prevent or delay muscular atrophy resulting
from forced activity.

7.  Massage can compensate, at least 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 of this vital organ.

8.  Massage improves the general circulation
and nutrition of tissues. It is accompanied or
followed by an increased interchange of
substances between the blood and tissue
cells, heightening tissue metabolism.

9.  Massage increases excretion via the kidneys
of fluids and nitrogen, inorganic phosphorus
and salt in normal individuals.

10.  Massage encourages the retention of chemical
compounds necessary for tissue repair in persons
convalescing from bone fractures.

11.  Massage stretches connective tissue,
improves its circulation and nutrition and so
breaks down or prevents the formation of adhesions
and reduces the danger of fibrosis.

12.  Massage improves the circulation and
nutrition of joints and hastens the
elimination of harmful particles.