Advance Your Health & Well-being with Massage Therapy

Massage therapy, simply known as “getting a massage,” involves applying pressure to the soft tissues of the body. This method promotes relaxation, improves blood flow, and reduces pain.

For those looking to incorporate a safe and effective way to improve their health and well-being, massage therapy may be an excellent choice.

Massage Therapy: Safe, Effective, and Successful

Massage therapy can safely and effectively treat a variety of conditions. It does wonders for things like muscle pain, edema, muscle spasms, pain patterns, surgery recovery, and so much more.

Additionally, it can improve tissue healing, strengthen your immune system, relax you before a surgery, reduce stress and anxiety, reduce inflammation, increase blood flow, help you lose weight, improve digestion, boost your metabolism, alleviate constipation, bloating and flatulence, and reduce cortisol (a stress-induced hormone that increases appetite).

Massage therapy has an interesting history. It’s been used by cultures all over the world for centuries as one of the oldest healing arts. Throughout ancient Egypt, China, as well as Greece and Rome, it dates back thousands of years.

Massage therapy is safe and effective. Not only that, but it complements a variety of conditions as an alternative medicine. Using a specific set of techniques, a “modality” is a specific type of massage therapy. In fact, this treatment has many different modalities, each with its own set of advantages.

Various ‘Modalities’ and What’s Right for You

A massage therapy patient’s specific needs can be met by using different massage modalities. There are many types, including:

• Reflexology: We apply pressure to unique points on you feet, hands, and ears.
• Hot stone massage: Heated stones are used to promote blood flow and relax your muscles.
• Lomi lomi massage: A Hawaiian massage using broad strokes to promote relaxation and well-being.
• Deep tissue massage: Deep pressure is used to release knots, tension in your muscles, and other areas.

• Prenatal massage: Specifically, this soothes a variety of pregnancy pains and allows you a rare moment to relax.
• Swedish massage: This is the most common type of massage therapy. It uses very long strokes to relax your muscles.
• Aromatherapy massage: This leverages the aromatic power of essential oils and other special relaxation techniques.
• Sports massage: Athletes need targeted recovery from injuries. This type of massage helps improve their performance.
• Thai massage: Using deep pressure, assisted stretching, and acupressure, this technique combines multiple techniques.
• Shiatsu: Based on traditional Chinese medicine, this uses selective finger pressure to activate pressure points on your body.
• Medical massage: This effective and safe treatment helps you relax, boosts blood flow, reduces pain, and treats a variety of medical conditions.
• Stretch massage: This is a soft and efficient method of improving your flexibility and range of motion. It combines stretching with deep-tissue massage techniques.
• Cranial sacral therapy (CS): This massage therapy soothes your central nervous system. Cerebrospinal fluid cushions your brain and spinal cord. By gently moving bones in your skull and sacrum, this helps improve fluid circulation and promotes healing.

At Wellness and Pain, we offer a select set of therapies that are appropriate for our patients’ individual circumstances, pain management problems, and massage therapy needs.

The Science Behind Massage Therapy

In massage therapy, touch is used to improve health and well-being as an alternative medicine. Muscle, tendons, and other areas of your body are all treated through manual application of pressure.

As a whole, this treatment helps to release endorphins. In turn, endorphins relieve pain and boost your mood. Your pituitary glands and hypothalamus release endorphins in response to pain or stress. These  are pain relievers and mood boosters. Additionally, you can stimulate them through a variety of activities, including exercise, listening to music, and spending time outside.

Massage therapy, however, has been shown to increase endorphin levels in the body and is effective in helping with pain and stress. Through interaction between your neuron receptors and endorphins, massage therapy reduces the perception of pain by stopping pain signals from reaching the brain.

The effect of endorphins on one’s mood is also positive. In the brain, they increase levels of dopamine and serotonin, two neurotransmitters connected to happiness and well-being.

Wellness and Pain Can Help

A range of massage therapy options are available at Wellness and Pain. We offer conservative treatments, routine visits, and minimally invasive, quick-recovery procedures. Together we can keep you free of problems by providing lifestyle education and home care advice to help you avoid and manage issues, quickly relieving the conditions slowing your life by using cutting-edge massage therapy techniques.

We personalize patient care plans based on each patient’s condition and unique circumstances to relieve pain, improve mobility and mental space, and improve your overall health.