Massage Therapy:

What are the benefits of massage?

  • Helps relieve stress, muscle tension, and stiffness, aids relaxation
  • Fosters faster healing of strained muscles and sprains ligaments
  • Reduces pain, and swelling, excessive scar tissue, & muscle spasms
  • Provides great joint flexibility and range of motion
  • Promotes deeper and easier breathing
  • Improves circulation of blood and movement of lymph fluids
  • Reduces blood pressure
  • Helps relieve tension related headaches and effects of eye-strain
  • Enhances the health and nourishment of skin
  • Improves posture
  • Strengthens the immune system
  • Fosters peace of mind and promotes a relaxed state of mental alertness and relieves mental stress and reduces anxiety
  • Fosters a feeling of well-being
  • Creates body awareness and the mind-body connection

There are times when you should not get a massage: 

If you have any of the following conditions, you should not get a massage:

  • Fever, any type of infectious disease, or systemic infection
  • Severe cold
  • Fracture, bleeding, burns or other acute injury
  • Liver and kidney diseases
  • Blood clot
  • Pregnancy-induced diabetes, toxemia, preeclampsia/eclampsia
  • High blood pressure (unless under control with medication)
  • Heart disease
  • Cancer
  • Open skin lesions or sores (therapist may work around them if localized)