Seeing The Best Massage Results

It’s a question that we often get asked, maybe varied in verbiage whether the client is asking how to prevent injury, to get rid of an existing problem, to help combat stress, or to just improve all over health and wellbeing. What we are hearing when you ask us these questions is basically “how can I see the best massage results?”. To answer this properly we need to discuss the overall benefits.

Listed below is just some of the benefits to adding massage into your life.

1. Relieves stress
2. Relieves postoperative pain
3. Reduces anxiety
4. Helps fibromyalgia pain
5. Reduces muscle tension
6. Enhances exercise performance
7. Relieves tension headaches
8. Better Sleep
9. Reduces pain of osteoarthritis
10. Improves cardiovascular health
11. Improves balance in older adults
12. Decreases rheumatoid arthritis pain
13. Promotes relaxation
14. Lowers blood pressure
15. Help with chronic neck pain
16. Lowers joint replacement pain
17. Increase range of motion
18. Decreases migraine frequency

Looking at the list of massage results it’s hard to deny that anyone wouldn’t want to have massage in there life but the biggest issue is consistency. Not all, but quite a few people who come in, want the quick fix. Now we can help in many instances for example: A tension headache, a spasmed muscle, de-stress from the world etc. but if you want to feel better in the long run. If you want to wake up with less pain on a day to day basis or want that pesky “bad area” to stop being a constant issue then consistency is the key. This can vary from person to person on what this looks like but what we typically recommend is once a month. One hour once a month can change your world for the better. Take the time for yourself. Its such a small amount of your life and can have such a big impact on not only your physical but mental health as well. Think about it, if you wake up in the morning feeling good your whole day is going to be better. Your outlook on the day will be more positive and you can’t put a price tag on that. There are some people who need more than that. Whether they have a lot physically they are trying to work through or if stress from life/work is a constant then once a month might not be enough, at least at first.

When working with an old injury or someone who has been in a constant state of stress its important to understand how our body copes and responds over time. If you think back to when you were a child and learning how to tie your shoes. It took such dedication and focus to tie your shoes in the beginning but over time you got better at it and now you don’t even think twice about what you are doing. You just tie our shoes, this is considered a learned neurological response or behavior. Its a wonderful aspect of our brain and nervous system. In regards to an old injury or constant stress, however, it can be tricky. Our bodies are meant to adapt its apart of our survival as a species. So when an injury doesn’t go away completely its because our body/nerves have decided that this is the new “normal”.

So how do you get back to that “feel good state”? By resetting your nervous and muscular system. How do you do that? By moving, stretching, massaging the muscles. When receiving a massage it helps reset the nervous system which had been more than likely working in a Sympathetic State which accelerates the heart rate, constricts blood vessels, and raises blood pressure verse a Parasympathetic State which decreases the heart rate, increases intestinal and gland activity, and overall helps your body conserve energy. When you look at the facts its easy to agree that massage can benefit just about anyone and it does so much.