The benefits of Optimal Health Center massage are numerous. Here a few:
For adults, massage therapy helps:
- relive muscle tension and soreness
- improves posture
- promotes greater joint flexibility
- reduces excessive scar tissue formation
- enhances athletic performance
- improves circulation
- reduces blood pressure
For youth, massage therapy also helps:
- maintain good posture
- prevent and relieve pain
- participate in sports with less injury
- reduce stress
- increase self-image & body awareness
- achieve self-confidence and esteem
Massage Therapy For Stress Relief
Most doctors will tell you that many of today’s ailments are caused not by viruses or bacteria, but stress. By not managing stress, you allow your body to ravage itself, weakening your immune system and reducing your physical and mental performance.
From tension related head-aches to increasing your risk of heart disease, massage therapy has the ability to reverse many of the affects caused by stress related illnesses. By fighting stress on a number of fronts, massage can relax muscles, increase circulation, and reduce stress related pain. Once your stress level is reduced, you can reclaim the energy you once enjoyed, and experience a refreshed body and mind.
Be sure to check out all the different types of massage to find out which massage therapy is right for you!
Deep tissue massage is similar to Swedish massage but is used to target knots and release chronic muscle tension. Other benefits include reducing inflammation and helping to eliminate scar tissue. The focus is on the deepest layers of muscle tissue, tendons, and fascia (the protective layer surrounding muscles, bones and joints).
Deep tissue massage uses strokes across the grain of the muscles, not with the grain as in Swedish massage. The more intense movements and techniques such as deep finger pressure may be slightly uncomfortable and cause soreness that lasts a couple of days before resulting in the desired relaxation and pain relief.
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