Revitalize Your Senses: The Benefits of Professional Massages

 

While executing our day-to-day duties and fulfilling our responsibilities, we ignore the most important thing; our health. We forget to spare a moment for our own well-being, which affects our physical and mental health.

Massage is a universally acknowledged practice that revitalizes the senses and replenishes our energy reserves. It improves blood circulation, relaxes the body and mind, and strengthens the immune system.

Benefits of Professional Massage

Relieves Anxiety and Stress

A massage session helps relieve anxiety and stress. The human body is home to two nervous systems; sympathetic and parasympathetic. The sympathetic nervous system drives our fight or flight mode, while the parasympathetic system helps us focus on our day-to-day operations, eventually leading to sleep and rest. An hour-long massage session engages our parasympathetic responses, thus decreasing feelings of anxiety.

Improves Sleep Quality

Massage therapies lower cortisol levels (the stress hormone) while increasing the levels of dopamine and serotonin, transmitters responsible for stabilizing one’s mood. According to studies, massage improves sleep quality while reducing insomnia triggered by menopause and congestive heart issues.

Reduces Muscle Tension and Pain

Several studies look into how massage therapies can reduce neck pain, acute back pain, headaches, and knee pain. However, these studies have also found that the effects of massage are short-lived, and the pain returns after some time. Therefore, a 60-minute massage a few times a week is recommended for longer-lasting results.

Strengthens the Immune System

Massage improves the immune system, which helps us fight diseases. A study suggests that massage increases the amount of white blood cells in the body, which helps our body fight viruses. Other studies have shown that receiving regular massages improves blood flow, and flushes toxins, thus strengthening the immune system.

Helps People with Fibromyalgia

Fibromyalgia is a chronic musculoskeletal condition. Its main symptoms are muscle tension, stiffness, fatigue, headaches, and sleep disorders. People with fibromyalgia also experience anxiety, depression, and mood swings. Massage therapies cause pain relief, lower cortisol levels, and increase the levels of serotonin, thus ensuring a sense of well-being.

Helps Cancer Patients

Massage therapies help cancer patients in different ways. When combined with other treatments, an oncology massage reduces nausea and vomiting caused by chemotherapy.  Moreover, it reduces cortisol levels, thus reducing stress and anxiety in cancer patients. Depression and mood disorders are common in breast cancer patients.

Antidepressants can decrease the effectiveness of breast cancer medications, and therefore, doctors don’t recommend them. Massage therapies help breast cancer patients feel less depressed while stabilizing their mood. It also helps with cancer fatigue and pain.

Makes Pregnancies Easier

Prenatal massages are focused on pregnant females. They help pregnant women deal with the pains of pregnancy. Moreover, they reduce pressure on the hips while reducing swelling in the legs and feet. When the mother feels well, the baby benefits too, and giving birth becomes easier. Massage also helps prevent post-labor complications.

Improves Lymphatic Flow

The lymph fluid has various important functions. It maintains fluid levels in the body while ensuring the removal of waste products from the system. A lymphatic massage helps the lymph fluid flow freely throughout the body. It is good for people experiencing inflammation, which includes people with arthritis and people that have undergone mastectomies around their lymph nodes.

Relieves Tightness in the Back and the Neck

The fascia is a network of connective tissues under the skin. It supports our muscles, which helps us move more freely. During a myofascial massage, the massage therapist stretches and kneads the muscles and the fascia, thus relieving stress and tightness.

It is also a kind of deep stretching used with several therapeutic massage techniques. A myofascial massage is great for people experiencing tightness in the upper and the lower back, the neck, and the shoulders.

Relieves Muscle Knots

The knots in the neck or the tight spots in your back are known as trigger points. A trigger point can be a tight spot in your tissues or a little muscle spasm. In a trigger point massage, the therapist focuses on these spots. It increases blood flow in these areas, which relieves the tightness. Trigger point massages are good for people with chronic pain. 

Improves Athletic Performance

A sports massage is similar to a deep tissue massage. However, it focuses on the beaten-up muscles affecting your athletic performance on the field or keeping you from working out in the gym. Dancers and athletes use their bodies differently than others. During a sports massage, the massage therapist breaks up tight muscles, which eases pain and prevents future injuries.

Increases Flexibility

Massage improves flexibility in several different ways. It breaks down adhesions, increases temperature and muscle elasticity, and removes waste from our system. Moreover, it decreases pain and reduces swelling. Increased flexibility improves your muscular condition and enhances physical performance.

Helps With Migraine

A 13-week study was conducted in New Zealand with 50 participants divided into two groups, each with 25 people. The study had a group that received massages and a control group. Both were given questionnaires regarding their conditions. People in the massage group received regular massages for several weeks.

The people that received massages reported reduced migraines, less anxiety, reduced heart rate, improved stress management, and better sleep quality. Massage therapies, along with chiropractic spine manipulation and physiotherapy, can reduce migraines to a great extent.

Breaks Scar Tissues

A 2020 meta-analysis looked at massage as a scar tissue management technique. The areas focused on were pain, pigmentation, surface area, itchiness, and scar thickness. It found that massage improves the pliability of scar tissue while moderately reducing itchiness.

Two more studies found that massage could reduce the thickness of the scar. However, the effects of massage vary from person to person, and it also depends on the duration of the massage session.

Final Word

At Asian Massage 2 Hotels, we help the community with the power of therapeutic massages. Our massage girls are professionally trained and come from various parts of Asia like China, Japan, Korea, Vietnam, Indonesia, and Myanmar. They offer you something new every time you book a session. If you are in Vegas, don’t let your trip come to an end without receiving a professional therapeutic massage from one of our beautiful massage girls. Contact us today, and let us show you what it means to be truly relaxed.