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The Benefits of Massage

What are the benefits of getting a massage?

This is one of the common things massage therapists will need to know in order to market their practice.

There are many different lists of the benefits of massage.

Massagetherapy.com (the website of the Associated Bodywork and Massage Professionals) has one of the best lists on the benefits of massage.

Others like these that just go on listing point after point -seem to miss the point.  Would this be enough information for you to choose a massage therapist or even want to get a massage?

  • Helps relieve stress and aids relaxation
  • Alleviates discomfort during pregnancy
  • Helps relieve muscle tension and stiffness
  • Fosters faster healing of strained muscles and sprained ligaments; reduces pain and swelling; reduces formation of excessive scar tissue
  • Reduces muscle spasms
  • Provides greater joint flexibility and range of motion
  • Enhances athletic performance; Treats injuries caused during sport or work
  • 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
  • Treats musculoskeletal problems
  • Rehabilitation post operative
  • Rehabilitation after injury
  • Reducing or eliminating pain
  • Improving joint mobility
  • Improving circulation
  • Improving immune system functioning
  • Increasing lymphatic drainage
  • Reducing depression and anxiety
  • Reducing tension within muscles
  • Increasing body awareness
  • increase your circulation
    • improve your endurance
    • elevate your corpuscle count
    • pump fresh oxygen to your muscles
       
    • eliminate toxins from your blood
       
    • recover from muscular fatigue faster
       
    • lower your blood pressure
       
    • create a resting state for your heart
       
    • lower your anxiety level
       
    • diminish nervous tension
       
    • see worry lines disappear
       
    • experience an overall relaxed state
       
    • feel your energy renewed

    The thing is that people are looking for a solution to their problem.  They most likely do not care about any of these things nor do they really understand what any of these things mean.  Just providing lists of things that massage does or doesn't do - doesn't engage the reader or challenge the reader or tell them what it can do for them (for the most part.)

    This is not educating the client.  What clients need to know are all of the things you learned in massage school about stress and how it affects the muscles and the body, how health is influenced by our thoughts, how feeling their bodies can help unlock many emotional/mental/spiritual challenges, how the body and mind are interconnected.

    Providing more information to clients through a website will help you build your practice faster and keep you booked solid for months to come.

    Online Articles

    What am I Feeling? The Healing Benefits of Massage By Shirley Vanderbilt. Massage and Bodywork Magazine

    Benefits of Massage Good Medicine By Editorial Staff Massage and Bodywork Magazine

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    Pathology

     

     

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