A Brief Note on Massage Therapy – Do You Know the Benefits of it?
August 19, 2010 by admin
Filed under General Health
What is a body massage and what are its benefits? Massage is a type of manual therapy that manipulates your body’s soft cells, primarily your muscles. This is used to relieve stress and minimize stress along with promoting body relaxation, suppleness and blood circulation of your body. This is used for the rehabilitation and treatment of your injured muscles.
Origins of the Body massage date back to China, that is, about 3000 BC. Ancient Chinese’s citizens used to apply a method known as “Amma”. Some more countries like India and Japan had used similar methods; even the ancient Greek citizens used this massage as a regular fitness routine. Hippocrates, who is the father of medicine, wrote in his book the significance of body massage for curing many serious health ailments.
A fencing master Per Henrik Ling and Swedish Physiologist developed a new technique. This is a popular technique and used for body relaxation, mental stress reduction and called Swedish Massage after the name of the developer of this technique.
The positive aspects of Massage are:
- Promotes muscle relaxation as well as reduces your mental stress.
- Reduces your muscle tension and promotes body flexibility.
- Eliminates the back pain like spine pain and lower back pain.
- Relieves you from neck pain which is caused by excess tension in your neck muscles.
- Promotes blood circulation and helps in the digestion and removes the waste matter from your body.
- Enhances your skin color and tone by reducing the dead skin tissues.
- While promoting your muscle flexibility, it relieves body tiredness and joints stiffness.
- By supporting muscle relaxation, it assists to promote a deeper and comfortable breathing and a more peaceful sleep.
- This has a comforting and soothing effect on your body as well as it calms your mind by minimizing the anxiety effects.
These are the vital benefits of body massage. In case if you have some other kind of severe health disease you can consult a health expert because body massage sometimes may not be a solution to treat every disease.
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