How Can Massage Therapy Be Medically Helpful?

Massage therapy has numerous benefits: it helps you relax, re-align, and rejuvenate. Our Owasso, Oklahoma licensed massage therapist will design an effective, customized massage treatment to address your individual needs. Our office offers deep tissue, Swedish, pregnancy, hot stone, and sports massage. Below are the descriptions and prices of the massage we offer. There are many positive aspects to receiving massage therapy on an ongoing basis.

• Relieves Stress
Massage therapy can improve your mental outlook and allows for better handling of pressure. It can reinforce a positive attitude, promote relaxed states of mental alertness, and enhance calm and creative thinking. It also lowers your heart rate, lowers blood pressure and increases endorphins.

• Encourages Relaxation, Improves Flexibility and Range of Motion
As we age, our joints tighten and we lose the range of motion we once enjoyed in our youth. One of the main reasons we become less flexible as we get older is due to certain changes that take place in the connective tissues. As we age our bodies gradually lose fluid and dehydrate.
Massage helps stimulate the production of the body’s natural lubricants to aid in flexibility. Flexibility and range of motion can help athletic performance and prevent injuries. It can also improve rehabilitation after injury.

• Improves Posture
Many aches and pains are due to poor posture. When pressure points are relieved, you are less apt to hunch over. Whether you drive a lot, sit at a desk, or are standing still, poor posture can have many negative effects to your overall health. Once the painful points in muscles are loosened and relaxed, joints have greater freedom, and pressure points are relieved. This allows the body to position itself in a healthy and natural posture. This allows the body to avoid movements and positions developed over time as a reaction to the pain.

• Relieves Tension-Related Headaches
Massage can help decrease occurrences of headaches, sleep disturbances and distress symptoms. It can also reduce muscle spasms and trigger points. Massage has two roles when it comes to treating migraines and tension-related headaches. In a proactive role, massage treatments are performed on a regular basis to help the body maintain an optimal level of relaxation and stress-relief. This approach reduces the chances of migraine attacks and tension headaches significantly by relaxing muscle spasms and trigger points. In a comfort role, massage is done to ease the pressure brought on during a migraine or tension-related headache. By focusing on the neck, shoulder, and head, massage can decrease the pain and discomfort brought on by migraine or tension headache.

• Improved Circulation
Massage enhances blood flow, moves waste away from muscles and internal organs, lowers blood pressure and improves body function. A person with poor circulation can suffer from a variety of discomforts including pooling of the fluid in the extremities, cold hands and feet, fatigue, and achiness created by an accumulation of lactic acid in the muscles. Good circulation brings damaged, tense muscles the oxygen rich blood they need to heal.