Benefits of Massage and Bodywork - Massage Therapy of Summerville

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Benefits of Massage and Bodywork

Often clients have arrived at my office suffering from physical and/or emotional illness. After receiving therapy they attest to significant relief from pain and discomfort. Many of the clients believe that bodywork was responsible for these positive changes. It is clear that this type of therapy has prompted them to move in a more positive direction, and they have returned interested in learning more about those changes. It has been my experience that these clients have gained a fresh awareness of their bodies and their role in their physical and emotional well-being.

There is an ongoing debate about the benefits of massage and we have listed some examples:

Most physicians and practitioners agree on the following points. Bodywork helps move fluids through the body's system. This can be blood in the arteries, capillaries and veins, the contents of the digestive tract, lymphatic fluids, secretion in the glands and other fluids that fill the spaces in between our cells.
Now the lack of flow of these fluids can have many serious consequences. Nutrients, oxygen, hormones, antibodies, water and other components must be delivered to every cell continuously if we are to survive in a healthy state. There are many tissues in the body that can be destroyed by this chronic interruption of these circulations.

Further benefits of bodywork include making a significant difference in the muscular and connective tissues. These tissues often stiffen and harden, distorting posture and limiting movement. This negative effect can be especially troubling after surgery or trauma. All the stiffness, shortening and pain can also happen as a result of overuse, disuse, spasm, injury, illness, aging and poor habits. Bodywork has been used for thousands of years to relax muscles, eliminate spasms, diminish fatigue, soften connective tissue and free up the joints.

These benefits alone would certainly be enough to establish their therapeutic value. But those are only the mechanical effects, but our bodies are more complex than that. Bodywork seems to have a profound effect on our nervous system and our mind. As more and more physicians look at at the mind/body connection they are discovering that the mental state in which a person is in has a direct affect on our physical body Many agree that stress seems to be behind a great variety of illnesses and diseases today. Through skillful bodywork we can influence the proper balance of our nervous system.

A very important point to remember is that the Massage Therapist is not fixing the client. He or she is not attacking a localized problem with specialized tools, seeking specific results. Instead he or she stimulates a flow of tactile information to the mind of the client, information that is not consciously being generated by the client, new information that the mind can use to start making changes. It is the mind of the client that does the fixing, the appropriate adjustment in posture, better fluid flow, and softening of the tissues. The bodyworker simply assists with sending information between the mind and body.

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