What is Therapeutic Massage?

Therapeutic massage is an alternative approach to help our bodies heal themselves. This promotes a state of wellness of spirit, mind, and body. A few of the many benefits are that massage: reduces stress both emotionally and physically through releasing tension held in the muscles; soothes nerves and stimulates the nervous system by increasing the relaxation response of the brain, and targets stress-causing diseases such as high blood pressure and headaches; improves circulation of the blood, lymph and cerebral spinal fluids; shortens recovery time from muscular strains by flushing the tissues of lactic acid, uric acid, and other metabolic wastes. Massage also helps to relieve muscular pain, promotes ease of movement of joints, improves posture and helps prevent further injury to muscles, increases nourishment to the tissues and hastens removal of wastes and toxins from the body.