Since you moved to Edmond, you have been looking to adopt a healthier lifestyle. You even started out exercising regularly and eating better. While both these are great ways to kick-start improvements to your health, you still want to do more to get your body feeling in tip-top shape. You even began to take supplements that have provided you with some noticeable benefits to your new healthy lifestyle. But, did you ever consider what massage therapy could do to improve your overall health? Here are five benefits of massage therapy that you will not want to pass up that can be truly life-changing.
Less Muscle Tension
You may not realize it, but your muscles can remain constantly tense. By now, you have been this way for so long your mind has become accustomed to all this muscle tension. You may feel it from time to time, but it is not until you have a professional massage that you start to truly grasp how overly tense your muscles are.
Relieve Chronic Soreness and Pain
Beyond muscle tension, you may be living with chronic soreness and pain. This painful existence can even prevent you from being productive throughout your daily routine. Massage therapy can restore your flexibility and give you a renewed sense of purpose as you find that you can return to doing things you have not been able to do for a long time.
Increase Blood Flow
One of the important benefits of massage therapy is its ability to restore proper blood flow to your muscles. Often muscle tissue has to be worked on to allow blood to reach places where it has not been able to reach for a long time. Blood carries oxygen to these areas of muscle tissue that desperately need it.
Enjoy a Tissue Detox
When muscle tissue is being manipulated during a massage, it will finally have the opportunity to start dumping waste and toxins. Initially, this can make a person a little ill. This is why it is always a good idea to drink lots of water after a massage to help flush these toxins and waste products out of the body. Once these toxins are gone, you will notice that you feel tons better.
Don’t Forget About Rest and Relaxation
Perhaps one of the most important benefits of massage therapy is that it helps you to relax and sleep deeper. This means the body will be able to engage the parasympathetic side of the nervous system more effectively which is engaged when we rest and sleep. During this part of the nervous system’s two phases of operation, the body is in a state where it is resting and repairing. This repair process makes it easier for your body to handle other environmental issues and challenges by improving your inherent immune function and reducing chronic stress to your nervous system.
You might even start to notice that long-term anxiety problems just fade away too. It is truly amazing how well your body can function when you can rest and sleep properly again because of massage therapy. In short, massage therapy is so good for improving your health on so many levels that it is a wonder why more individuals are not taking advantage of its health promoting benefits.
Massage therapy’s great benefits are available to residents of Edmond at Jon Ric International Health and Wellness. Call us today to schedule a consultation at our office in Edmond and get started!
