Physical: - Provides deep relaxation and stress reduction
- Relieves muscle tension and stiffness
- Reduces Muscle Spasms
- Enhances athletic performance
- Increases ease and efficiency of movement
- Promotes deeper and easier breathing
- Improves circulation of blood and lymph fluids
- Assists with removal of metabolic wastes
- Reduces blood pressure
- Relieves tension- related headaches and eye strain
- Encourages faster healing time for pulled muscles and sprained ligaments; reduces pain and swelling; reduces formation of excessive scar tissue
- Enhances the health and nourishment of the skin
- Improves posture
- Strengthens immune system
- Facilitates neuromuscular reeducation
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Mental: - Provides a relaxed state of alertness
- Reduces mental stress
- Improves ability to monitor stress signals and to respond appropriately
- Enhances capacity for calm thinking and creativity
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Emotional: - Satisfies the need for caring and nurturing touch
- Creates a feeling of well being
- Enables a greater ease of emotional expression
- Enhances self image
- Reduces levels of anxiety
- Increases awareness of the mind-body connection
- Provides a sense of unification and harmony
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Taken from "A guide to Massage Therapy in America", a publication of the American Massage Therapy Association
