GENERAL BENEFITS OF MASSAGE THERAPY

AS RESEARCH HAS SHOWN:

• By massaging the muscles chemicals get released by the nervous system, such chemicals are secretion of endorphins and other neural chemicals, and the release of histamine, which will affect the body directly or indirectly.
  
• Circulation improvement occurs as nutrients, oxygen, and arterial blood components are delivered to the local areas being manipulated or distributed to the general circulation.
  
• The benefit of circulatory improvement is the secondary effect of improved filtration and elimination of carbon dioxide, metabolites, and biochemical byproducts that are transported in the venous blood.
  
• Improved circulation, with it’s ability to affect elimination, generally enhances the abilities of the structures to benefit and support normal function.
  
• When nutrition is improved and elimination enhanced, the structures of localized areas, tissues, and systems are given the opportunity to maximize the potential for normal function.
  
• Massage therapy benefits conditions by encouraging the body through the phases involved in rehabilitation, restoration, and normalization of anatomic and physiologic function and ability.
  
• Psycho logic benefits occur subjectively according to the individual in response to therapy with secondary effects that influence sensation and pain perception.
  
• Objective and subjective results of therapy combine to create individual responses that affect the desired health outcome.

• Severe uncontrollable high blood pressure

• Severe uncontrollable diabetes

• Infectious skin diseases

• Upper respiratory infections and coughing

• Severe vascular disease

• Sunburn

• Metastatic diseases