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.
One of the best studies done on massage was a meta-analysis
which is a study of all of the studies about massage and their findings were
that massage helped more with depression, anxiety and emotional issues than with
physical issues such as pain.
Resources:Read the actual study at
anatomyfacts.com (pdf)
Under the Microscope A Meta-Analysis of Massage Therapy Studies By Shirley
Vanderbilt
www.massagetherapy.com
Online Articles
Learn to write about the 'real benefits of massage' to promote
yourself by reading this free Ebook "Make
Your Words Sell" by Ken Evoy
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
See also:
Massage Research
Massage Guides for Various Conditions
Pathology
