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Why Massage is Good For You |
The Greeks, Persians and Chinese practiced massage as a spiritual art. Now, as then, massage is not only a powerful therapy for recovery from tension and fatigue; it's also a powerful tool of preventative medicine, valuable in keeping healthy people healthy.
Here's why - a short anatomy lesson: Your body is nourished, cleansed and maintained by your blood and lymph systems. Pumped by your heart, your blood circulates oxygen and nutrients to your muscles, where they are converted into energy. A by-product of this process is lactic acid, which is filtered out with other toxic wastes and carried away by your lymph system - the same miraculous 'sanitary system' that is in charge of your immunity, protecting you from disease. When activity becomes strenuous, however, this process loses its efficiency. Energy requirements exceed supply, you feel it when the force of your swing at a tennis ball, for instance, isn't as hard after two hours of play as it was when you started. A similar problem occurs with too little activity - when you've been at your desk too long and find your mind slower, your irritation higher, and tension grabbing your neck and shoulders. In both cases, lactic acid accumulates. Your muscles become cramped and sluggish. Blood and lymph flow decrease. And fatigue sets in.
Doesn't rest take care of all of this? Eventually, yes. Rest is your body's natural means of recuperation. But it takes time, as you know. And in the active, demanding pace of life today, there is rarely enough time for enough rest. The result is that the damaging effects are compounded, day after day, affecting not only the way you feel and function right now but also your future well being.
Massage - the vital difference. Massage can make a vital difference. Massage speeds up the recuperation process dramatically, reducing recovery time by half, rejuvenating your blood and lymph systems, helping to keep you healthy. |
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The Beneficial Effects of Massage |
An excerpt from "Survival into the 21st Century", by Viktoras Kulvinskas, 21st Century Publications, P.O. Box 64, Woodstock Valley, CT 06282.
- Massage dilates the blood vessels, improving the circulation and relieving congestion throughout the body.
- Massage increases the number of red blood cells especially in cases of anemia.
- Massage acts as a "mechanical cleanser" stimulating lymph circulation and hastening the elimination of wastes and toxic debris.
- Massage increases blood supply and nutrition to muscles without adding to their load of toxic lactic acid, produced through voluntary muscle contraction. Massage thus helps to prevent buildup of harmful "fatigue" products resulting from strenuous exercise or injury.
- Massage improves muscle tone and helps prevent or delay muscular atrophy resulting from forced inactivity.
- Massage can compensate, in part, for lack of exercise and muscular contraction in persons who because of injury, illness or age are forced to remain inactive. In these cases, massage helps return venous blood to the heart and so eases the strain on this vital organ.
- Massage may have a sedative, stimulating or even exhausting effect on the nervous system depending on the type and length of massage treatment given.
- According to some authorities, massage may burst the fat capsule in subcutaneous tissue so that the fat exudes and becomes absorbed. In this way massage, combined with a nutritious but calorie-deficient diet, can be an aid to reducing.
- Massage by improving the general circulation, increases nutrition of the tissues. It is accompanied or followed by an increased interchange of substances between the blood and tissue cells heightening tissue metabolism.
- Massage increases the excretion (via the kidneys) of fluids and waste products of protein metabolism, inorganic phosphorus and salt in normal individuals.
- Massage encourages the retention of nitrogen, phosphorus and sulphur necessary for tissue repair in persons convalescing from bone fractures.
- Massage stretches connective tissue, improves its circulation and nutrition and so breaks down or prevents the formation of adhesions and reduces the danger of fibrosis.
- Massage improves the circulation and nutrition of joints and hastens the elimination of harmful deposits. It helps lessen inflammation and swelling in joints and so alleviates pain.
- Massage helps to reduce edema (or dropsy) of the extremities.
- Massage disperses the edema following injury to ligaments.
- Massage makes you feel good!
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