Research Shows

Research continues to show the enormous benefits of touch—which range from treating chronic diseases, neurological disorders, and injuries, to alleviating the tensions of modern lifestyles. Consequently, the medical community is actively embracing bodywork, and massage is becoming an integral part of hospice care and neonatal intensive care units. Many hospitals are also incorporating on-site massage practitioners and even spas to treat post-surgery or pain patients as part of the recovery process.

- Massage can reduce sports-related soreness and improve circulation

- Deep-tissue massage is effective in treating back pain

- Fibromyalgia patients receiving massage have less pain, depression, anxiety, stiffness, fatigue, and problematic sleep

- Massage reduces symptoms of carpal tunnel syndrome

- Oncology patients show less pain, fatigue, nausea, anxiety, and depression following massage therapy

- Stroke patients show less anxiety and lower blood pressure with massage therapy

- Massage therapy is effective is reducing postsurgical pain

- Alzheimer’s patients exhibit reduced pacing, irritability, and restlessness after neck and shoulder massage

- Preterm babies receiving massage therapy gain more weight and have shorter hospital stays

- Massage is beneficial in reducing symptoms associated with arthritis, asthma, burns, high blood pressure, & premenstrual syndrome

- Massage during labor appears to reduce stress and anxiety, relax muscles, and help block pain

Help Yourself to Health

What exactly are the benefits of receiving massage or bodywork treatments? Useful for all of the conditions listed below and more, massage can:

- Alleviate low-back pain and improve range of motion

- Assist with shorter, easier labor for expectant mothers and shorten maternity hospital stays

- Ease medication dependence

- Enhance immunity by stimulating lymph flow—the body’s natural defense system

- Exercise and stretch weak, tight, or atrophied muscles

- Help athletes of any level prepare for, and recover from, strenuous workouts

- Improve the condition of the body’s largest organ—the skin

- Increase joint flexibility

- Lessen depression and anxiety

- Promote tissue regeneration, reducing scar tissue and stretch marks

- Pump oxygen and nutrients into tissues and vital organs, improving circulation

- Reduce post-surgery adhesions and swelling

- Reduce spasms and cramping

- Relax and soften injured, tired, and overused muscles

- Release endorphins—amino acids that work as the body’s natural painkiller

- Relieve migraine pain