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- Massage dilates the blood vessels, improving the circulation and relieving congestion through out the body.
- Massage relaxes and relieves tension.
- Massage increases the number of red blood cells, especially in cases of anemia.
- Massage improves muscle tone and helps prevent or delay muscular atrophy resulting from forced inactivity.
- Massage may have a sedative, stimulating or even exhausting effects on the nervous system depending on the type and length of treatment given.
- Massage stretches connective tissue, improves circulation and nutrition and so breaks down or prevents formation of adhesions and reduces the dangers of fibrosis.
- Massage helps reduce edema (swelling) or dropsy of the extremities.
- Massage disperses edemas following injuries or tendons, lessens pain and facilitates movement.
- Massage, by improving the general circulation, increases nutrition of the tissues, which is accompanied or followed by an increased interchange of substances between the blood and tissue cells heightening tissue metabolism.
- Massage helps return venous blood to the heart and so eases the strain on this vital organ on forced-inactive people.
- Massage is the second best method of stimulation of lymph flow, and it is also of value in moving edema fluid.
- Massage relaxes muscle spasms by inhibiting motor impulses to the muscle from the central nervous system.
- Massage, as does exercise, increases muscle tone, pulse, body temperature, respiration and renal output.
- Massage may break down adhesions between the skin or superficial tissue and deeper structures.
- Massage increases insensible perspiration and facilitates removal of sebaceous secretions from the endocrine glands.
- Massage has a psychogenic response having a warming, soothing analgesic effect described by some as a hypnotizing effect on the skin's sensitive nerve endings.
- Massage makes you feel good!
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