Massage

Benefits to your muscular system:

• Massage increases the blood supply and nutrition to your muscles.
• Massage helps your muscles recover more quickly from exertion and fatigue.
• Massage relaxes your muscles, effectively reducing spasms, tension and cramping.
• Massage reduces and breaks down adhesions (knots) and fibrosis.
• Massage stretches your connective tissue.
• Massage helps to re-establish your proper muscular tone.
• Massage reduces your muscle and soft tissue pain.
• Massage supports increased work capacity and encourages your metabolism.
• Massage helps to prevent muscular atrophy (wasting from injury and paralysis).

Benefits to your skeletal systems:

• Massage improves the circulation and nutrition of the joints and helps increase your range of joint movement.
• Massage reduces joint strain and compression through releasing tight muscles and tendons.
• Massage increases the ease and efficiency of your movements.
• Massage helps to increase the retention of nitrogen, phosphorous, and sulphur in the bones and this aids in fracture healing.