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Five Benefits of
Body Massage
for a Healthy Lifestyle
Massage is most often associated with a relaxing
spa service. However, just as there are several
types of yoga or physical therapy styles,
massage therapy varies among practitioners. As such,
bodywork can have many benefits and is a great way to
support a healthy lifestyle. This is especially true for those
that treat soft tissue therapy not as a luxury but as an
essential part of self-care. Recovery strategies have become
more commonplace recently. They include anything from
yoga to vibration guns to heat or cold treatments.
About the Author
Jessica is a registered yoga teacher, a licensed
massage therapist, and Co-owner of The
Movement Guild. TMG is a Chicago-based small
business that o ers one on one physical therapy,
chiropractic care, personal training, and massage
and mobility therapy.
She o ers customized manual and movement
therapy to private clients and teaches specialized
yoga and kinstretch (mobility) classes. She also
provides continued education courses to yoga
teachers that replace conventional anatomy and
memorization with modern movement education
and foundational joint mechanics.
Jessica holds certifications in functional range
conditioning, kinstretch, integrative movement
systems, cranio-sacral therapy, functional
movement taping, RockTape blades and myofascial
cupping.
Their goal is to accelerate the natural healing processes our
body’s cells undergo after vigorous exercise or physical
demands. Massage is possibly one of the most powerful
recovery tools because it can accomplish many recovery
goals in one session.
1. Relaxation:
Higher anxiety levels tend to lower pain thresholds. Or, said
differently, the more stressed out you are the more intense
your pain might feel to you. Lowering your stress levels can
mitigate perceived pain. A massage is a powerful tool that
uses mindful touch to soothe the fight or flight branch of
your nervous system and helps stimulate its counterpart: the
rest and restores branch. In a relaxed state, we sleep better,
retain more information, heal faster, and usually report a
decrease in pain symptoms.
2. Reduces Muscle Soreness:
Regular tissue work can help reduce muscle soreness.
DOMS or delayed onset muscle soreness is what most
people experience 24-48 hours after a challenging workout
or physical activity. Massage promotes fluid exchange in
your tissue. Your tissue, including muscles, relies on this
movement of fluid to exchange nutrients for toxins and
deliver oxygen to depleted tissue cells. Basically, massage
can help you recover faster so you can get back to your
active lifestyle. Challenging experience depends partly on
how much independence tissue layers have.
3. Increases Body Awareness:
Your skin is your largest organ. As embryos, our brain and
skin evolve from the same cells and can be considered
continuations of each other. You can think of your skin as
your brain turned inside out and your brain as your skin
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