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April 4, 2022|
How Massage Therapy Can Benefit You
A stressful lifestyle can lead to unwanted side effects such as fatigue in muscles, various body pains, and emotional effects such as anxiety and depression. Luckily, there is a solution that is easy, non-expensive, and universal for all of those symptoms (as well as many more) – massage therapy.
First, massage therapy is excellent for relieving both chronic pain and acute pain. Massaging targets the body’s soft tissue, and by manipulating this the lymphatic system is stimulated, which can ease injury effects on a body. In a 2010 study, it was found that for an experimental group of hospital inpatients from medical, surgical, and obstetrics units who received massage therapy for at least half an hour per day, their acute pain levels went down. The average starting pain level for the group was 5.18 (on a scale from 1 to 10); which went down to a mean pain level of 2.33 after the massage. Chronic pain can also be soothed by decreasing tension in muscles. Chronic muscles are unable to relax, and by stimulating blood flow into muscles, tension is released as well as increasing range of movement. All of these factors together help control pain.
Massage therapy can also release hormones in the body that can help with both limb movement and emotions. During the stimulation process, the body can release endorphins, serotonin, and dopamine; dubbed ‘good hormones,’ because they make the body and mind feel good, can induce a relaxed body and mindset, relieve anxiety, increase motivation, and decrease stress on the body which is the cause of these symptoms.
Lastly, it can also positively affect joint pain. Neck, back, hand, and knee pain have been alleviated by massages, in a Harvard medical study conducted on joint pain. People had massage treatments near Bay Ridge and Park Slope, our two offices where a wide variety of physical treatment options are available, and had less hand pain and more grip strength after regular sessions of massages, and they also saw improvement in their emotional state; they slept better, ate better, and had less anxiety, stress, and depression compared to people who did not get massaged.
Sources:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3091428/
https://brighamhealthhub.org/therapeutic-massage-for-pain-relief/
https://www.physio.co.uk/treatments/massage/when-can-massage-help/chronic-pain.php
https://www.webmd.com/balance/stress-management/features/massage-therapy-stress-relief-much-more
