You may associate massage with spas, candles, and soothing music. But massage offers much more than pampering and luxury. Regular therapeutic massage therapy that focuses on manipulating your body’s soft tissue, like the muscles, tendons, and ligaments, offers myriad benefits that help your physical and mental health and wellbeing.

Here at Peninsula RSI Chiropractic Wellness Center in Redwood, California, we offer therapeutic massage to patients suffering from joint pain, arthritis, fibromyalgia, sports injuries, headaches, and other chronic pain syndromes.

Here are just five of the benefits you can reap from therapeutic massage sessions.

1. Reduced pain and soreness

Pain and soreness may be acute after a workout, a race, the big game, or just the everyday rigors of life. Therapeutic massage can help you recover from exercise and is a fantastic addition to an athlete’s care program. It can also help you manage chronic pain. This is relevant to people who suffer regularly from chronic conditions like fibromyalgia, osteoarthritis, and myofascial pain syndrome.

2. Enhanced immunity

Therapeutic massage does more than just help your soft tissue; it can actually boost your ability to fight off illness. Research shows that therapeutic massage can trigger your body to produce more white blood cells to defend you from disease. Massage therapy also reduces your load of stress hormones, like cortisol, and discourages inflammation — two factors that can tear down immunity.

3. Improved range of motion

Massage loosens up your body’s soft tissue, thus improving your flexibility and range of motion at joints. Therapeutic massage can break up adhesions and scar tissue as well as encourage better blood flow, all making your joints work better.

This makes massage particularly helpful to people with osteoarthritis who suffer stiffness and are reluctant to move because of pain. Athletes who get stuck in repetitive movement patterns, from pitchers to runners, also find that massage keeps them more mobile and healthy.

4. Decreased stress

Therapeutic massage can be an antidote to stress. It decreases tension headaches associated with to-do lists, family demands, relationship struggles, and work deadlines. You’ll feel your heart rate reduce and your body release. It’s a form of self-care that quantifiably improves your body’s and mind’s ability to relax.

Research shows that therapeutic massage is an effective way to reduce anxious thoughts, thereby helping ease anxiety and its effects, like racing heart, panic attacks, and general feelings of unease.

5. Improved sleep

If you’re having trouble sleeping, massage may be an answer. Adding regular therapeutic massage to your wellness program can help resolve many of the issues that interfere with a good night’s rest, like stress, pain, and anxiety.

The American Massage Therapy Association reports that massage can help you fall asleep faster, stay asleep for longer, and achieve better quality sleep.

Therapeutic massage works alone or in conjunction with other treatments, like chiropractic adjustments and structured exercise, to help you overcome your pain and improve your quality of life. Contact Peninsula RSI Chiropractic Wellness Center to set up your therapeutic massage treatments and learn for yourself how they can improve your overall quality of life.

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