BENEFITS OF MASSAGE:

Many research studies show massage reduces heart rate, lowers blood pressure, increases blood circulation and lymph flow, relaxes muscles, improves motion, and increases endorphins. A proper massage can stimulate weak, inactive muscles and may even compensate for the lack of exercise and inactivity resulting from illness or injury.

Some of the mental benefits of therapeutic massage are peace of mind, relaxed mental alertness and relieved mental stress and anxiety.

Some studies at the James Cancer Hospital Institute in Columbus , Ohio and the University of NC , have suggested that cancer patients had less pain and anxiety after receiving therapeutic massage, and women who had experienced death of a child were less emotionally depressed.