Regular Maintenance

A person does not have to have an injury or have stress in order to enjoy the benefits of Massage Therapy. Many people use massage as part of their “maintenance routine”. Regular fortnightly or monthly massage can help prevent injury and generally increase your well-being.

Research shows that the massage you get to relieve stress can also have a positive effect on your fitness level. This results in increased power and performance, which helps you work efficiently and with proper intensity.

For the Sports person, massage helps to shorten recovery time between workouts. Waste products such as lactic and carbonic acid build up in muscles after exercise. Increased circulation to these muscles helps to eliminate toxic debris and shorten recovery time.

Many people mistakenly believe that because they don’t ache and pain that they don’t need a massage. This is not always the case. Preventative maintenance is often better than trying to fix the problem after it has occurred.

 

Stress Relief

Ask someone his or her reason for getting a massage and you're likely to hear "because it feels good." We all know that a massage can relieve stress, help to make sore muscles feel better and even reduce anxiety.

Massage is known as the systematic and scientific manipulation of the soft tissue of the body and is used to promote health and well being and is probably the oldest healing art known to man, recorded as being used by the Chinese, Greeks and Romans in ancient History.

Massage Therapy promotes relaxation and eases emotional and physical stress, relieves headaches, and improves the function of the skin, the lungs and digestive organs.

Physical touch and massage techniques involving slow, soothing strokes to one's back or neck can slow a busy, overworked mind and settle or centre a person.  The communication of such caring touch is also recognized by health professionals as an adjunct to pain relief, whether physical or emotional.

Massage has a relaxing effect on the muscles, as well as a sedative effect on the nervous system.

 

Injury Rehabilitation

Massage helps prevent and even heal injuries. By stretching connective tissue, massage improves circulation to help prevent or break down adhesions. Massage also influences the excretion of certain fluids (nitrogen, phosphorous, sulphur) necessary for tissue repair.

Massage improves circulation and general nutrition of muscles. Massage is accompanied or followed by an increase interchange of substances between the blood and the tissue cells, which increases tissue metabolism. After a muscle is exercised, vital nutrients must be supplied in order for it to increase in size. Massage maximizes the supply of nutrients and oxygen though increased blood flow, which helps the body rebuild itself.

MMT may work in conjunction with physiotherapy, osteopathy, and chiropractic providers to provide an overall solution to any injury to help the patient return to their normal activities in stronger and better shape.

It is quite common for a patient to be referred to a Massage Therapist during Osteo or chiropractic treatments. It can be a complimentary treatment which can aid the benefit of such Osteo and chiropractic treatments.

 

MMT can provide a range of exercise and advice for the patient to help them help themselves and prevent further injuries in the future. Please check out the Useful Info Section of this Web site for further information on stretching.