While massage makes a great gift for Valentine’s Day for a loved one or yourself to be pampered and relax, it is also so much more than that. The health benefits of massage extend beyond simply being pampered. Growing research shows massage helps to:
1. Manage Anxiety and Depression. Massage reduces levels of the hormone cortisol, and releases endorphins.
Creating a sense of well being, resulting in lifted spirits, and often, lower blood pressure. It also boosts the neurotransmitters serotonin and dopamine, which help fight depression.
2. Relieves Pain. Massage is reported as strong a benefit as some medications, acupuncture, and exercise. It can help someone suffering from chronic pain or discomfort. Fibromyalgia and arthritis are two common chronic pain syndromes that can be positively impacted by massage therapy.
3. Improve Sleep. Massage helps promote healthy sleep. A number of studies have examined this link and believe it is do to the affect on delta waves that are connected to deep sleep.
4. Boost Immunity. Massage can help increase a person’s disease-fighting white blood cells. Clinical studies have indicated that regular massage not only helps alleviate stress, but can naturally increase the immune system’s cytotoxic capacity (the activity level of the body’s natural “killer cells”) and decrease the number of T-cells, which improves the body’s immune functioning overall.
5. Improves Circulation. When your feeling sluggish massage can help to stimulate your body tissues and improve circulatory flow. Massage facilitates circulation because the pressure created by the massage technique actually moves blood through the congested areas. The release of this same pressure causes new blood to flow in. The squeezing and pulling also flushes lactic acid from the muscles and improves the circulation of the lymph fluid which carries metabolic waste away from muscles and internal organs, resulting in improved body function, along with healthier looking skin and hair.
6. Raise Alertness. Massage is great for boosting your brainpower. It not only helps your body, but your mind as well. Massage has been proven to increase your mental awareness.
7. Improves Posture. Massage can relax and loosen the muscles made sore by bad posture, allowing your body to position itself in its natural-and pain-free-posture. With ongoing massage the muscles are loosened and relaxed-joints have greater freedom and pressure points are relieved.
8. Ease Cancer Treatment. Because of the benefits listed above, massage is particularly helpful for people living with or undergoing treatment for serious illnesses, like cancer. Studies have shown massage helps fatigue, pain, anxiety, depression and nausea in cancer patients.
With Cosmetic Concepts Skin & Day Spa’s Package of 3-One Hour Massages at just $150 (no contracts or monthly payments) how can you not call and make your appointment and improve your overall wellbeing!
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