Massage is a great support to your chiropractic treatments, helping muscles accept the adjustments and avoid the tendency to revert to old movement habits and pain patterns.
By definition, massage is the application of various soft-tissue manipulation techniques to the body, generally intended to reduce stress and fatigue while improving circulation.
Benefits of massage can be both physical and mental. These can include:
- Alleviate lower back pain and improve range of motion
- Assist with shorter, easier labor for expectant mothers and shorten maternity hospital stays
- Ease medication dependence
- Enhance immunity by stimulating lymph flow (the body’s natural defense system)
- Exercise and stretch weak, tight, or atrophied muscles
- Help athletes of any level prepare for, and recover from, strenuous workouts
- Improve the condition of the body’s largest organ, the skin
- Increase joint flexibility
- Lessen depression and anxiety
- Promote tissue regeneration, reducing scar tissue and stretch marks
- Pump oxygen and nutrients into tissues and vital organs, improving circulation
- Reduce post-surgery adhesions and swelling
- Reduce spasms and cramping
- Relax and soften injured, tired, and overused muscles
- Release endorphins—amino acids that work as the body’s natural painkiller
- Relieve migraine pain
- Improve posture
- Lower blood pressure
- Promote deeper and easier breathing
