Benefits of Massage

• Alleviate low-back pain and improve range of motion
• Assist with shorter, easier labor for expectant mothers
• 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
• 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
• Relieve migraine pain
• and MANY more!
  

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• One hour massage equates to 7-8 hours of sleep on the body
• There are approximately 5 million touch receptors in our skin – 3,000 in a finger tip
• Muscles are made up of bundles from about 5 in the eyelid to about 200 in the buttock muscles
• Touch is the first sense to develop in humans, and may be the last to fade
• Massage therapy is the third most commonly used form of alternative medicine in the US
• Experts estimate that stress is responsible for 80-90% of disease
• Office workers massaged regularly are more alert, perform better and are less stressed than those who aren’t massaged