Remedial massage uses several specialized techniques to locate and repair damage to muscles, tendons and joints. Massage therapy supports and speeds up the body's own repair mechanisms. A lubricating medium (usually oil) is applied directly on the skin. This ensures that the muscles associated with the disorder are deeply penetrated. Passive joint stretching moves are also used.
The condition that often haunts today's modern era is continuous psychological pressure. This pressure can be in the form of work problems, finances, emotional relationships, and so on. This condition is then called stress. Unknowingly stress can then interfere with physical and mental health.
In general, stress is closely related to the balance of hormones in the body. The body responds by releasing high levels of stress hormones accompanied by muscle contractions and followed by nervous tension. Nervous tension occurs due to pressure received by the brain.
One way that can be done to reduce muscle contractions and nervous tension is through massage. Massage that helps release stress which has an impact on health and at the same time relaxes muscles.
Research on various forms of self-massage also shows that self-massage of muscles can reduce muscle pain and relieve pain symptoms, even in people with osteoarthritis.
In fact, pain relief — along with a reduction in depression — is one of the benefits often associated with massage in studies, said Tiffany Field, director of the Touch Research Institute at the University of Miami, quoted from AntaraNews, Thursday (4/1/2018).
Field adds that some of her research shows that massage can improve immune system function in people with breast cancer and leukemia, while reducing their physical and emotional pain.
He continued several fMRI studies which showed that massage increases blood flow in areas of the brain associated with mood and stress regulation.
"The pressure receptors under the skin, when stimulated increase vagal activity," he said referring to the vagus nerve, the main component in the human nervous system that plays a role in autonomic functions such as heartbeat, breathing and digestion.
Furthermore, research from the University of South Florida also found, high blood pressure patients who got a massage for ten minutes, three times a week, and lasted for three weeks, had lower blood pressure.
Massage therapy can also relieve stress because the body's biochemical effects change after being touched by a hand. In a series of studies conducted on 500 men, women and children suffering from stress, it was found that their stress hormones were reduced by 53%.
In the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry it is also stated that patients who experience depression and anxiety are much more relaxed and happy after a massage.
So in addition to reducing stress hormones, massage increases levels of serotonin and dopamine, neurotransmitters that help reduce depression and create a feeling of well-being. This benefit is felt not only by adults, but also by babies.
If you have started to feel signs of stress followed by physical fatigue, massages such as Express Remedial Massage at PHRM Indonesia can be a solution to get rid of annoying stress.
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