A wonderful massage is both comforting and beneficial to your body. Besides the lovely and meditative aspects of physical touch, there are body systems which benefit as well. It can be difficult to remember that even unseen changes are still changes, but sometimes they’re the most important. What are body systems that see benefits from regular massage therapy?
Lymphatic System
Your lymphatic system manages your immune system movement, but it doesn’t have a pump like the heart does! Instead, your lymph moves around, taking care of increasing immunity and making illnesses go away, powered by your movements and general changes in skin pressure. Massage therapy, especially when it is lighter massage and not deep tissue massage, can increase lymphatic movement. This is why you need to drink water after massage therapy, to flush toxins out of your system! It helps get everything moving!
Digestive System
The digestive system is sensitive to both mental and physical stress, which is why prolonged, severe stress can worsen various digestive conditions. Many people have problems such as constipation, stomach pains, or IBS thanks to the anxiety they deal with. Even though therapeutic massage is for the whole body, not just the area where intestines lie, your digestion will move faster and be more efficient if you use massage therapy as part of your routines.
Muscular System
Your muscles feel like they get a whole workout during a massage session! This is because all the lactic acid which they have been storing, which doesn’t need to be there, gets pushed outward back into the body’s arterial systems! This is good, though, because when you keep hydrated after a massage, your body gets rid of those acids and this helps your muscles to heal properly and be fully restored. This can also help your circulation system be more efficient and continue to boost your capabilities as you get stronger. Massage is an excellent way to recover after a workout, or after a chiropractic visit.
One of the greatest things that massage does is boost your feelings of well-being. In a long pandemic, many Americans were social distancing. Quarantines have caused less and less ability to have beneficial touch in society today. Massage therapy offers that benefit, which the parasympathetic systems of the body need and crave! Then, with the lymphatic system working more efficiently, digestive system moving fluidly, and muscular and circulatory systems feeling better, your body will be ready to reenter society. It’s easier to conquer the world when you feel awesome!
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