the benefits of massage therapy

Massage therapy addresses a wide variety of health conditions, and offers a holistic approach based on the body’s natural ability to heal itself. Massage has many physical and mental benefits, including the following:

• Helps relieve physical and mental stress
• Enhances capacity for calm thinking and sense of well-being
• Reduces levels of anxiety and aids relaxation
• Alleviates muscle spasms, stiffness and tension
• Stimulates circulation of blood and movement of lymph fluids
• Strengthens the immune system
• Helps remove toxins from the body
• Reduces pain, swelling and formation of excessive scar tissue
• Provides greater joint flexibility and range of motion
• Enhances athletic performance
• Promotes deeper and easier breathing
• Helps reduce high blood pressure
• Relieves migraine and tension headaches
• Accelerates healing of strained muscles and sprained ligaments

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