Massage is great for helping you relax, but it also has more therapeutic benefits:
- Relieve back/neck pain
- Boost focus
- Reduce stress
- Relieve depression and anxiety
- Help osteoarthritis
- Sleep more soundly
- Heal injuries
- Improve circulation
- Fight fatigue
- Manage pain
- Improve flexibility
How can massage do all that?
“The skin is moved during a moderate pressure massage, which results in a calming and slowing of the nervous system,” says Tiffany Field, PhD at the University of Miami School of Medicine. “And that slowing of the nervous system leads to other physiological effects too, like a decrease in heart rate, lowered blood pressure, and changes in EEG patterns (electrical activity in your brain)”, says Field. And you can get these great effects after only 20 minutes!
Treat yourself to a massage & improve your health!