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Benefits of Swedish Massage

Swedish Massage is what people normally associate with massage therapy, although there are many other techniques, each with its own unique benefits. The Swedish variety is a smooth kneading technique, designed primarily to relax your muscles by applying pressure, and rubbing in the same direction as the flow of blood returning to the heart. The lymph system and veins both rely on muscle action, rather than heart pump pressure, to operate.

Swedish Massage will NOT ONLY relax your muscles, BUT ALSO improve your circulation, remove toxins, quicken nutrient transport, help you obtain a feeling of connectedness, and a better awareness of your body and the way you use and position it. Swedish Massage shortens recovery time from muscular strain by flushing the tissue of lactic acid, uric acid and other metabolic wastes. It improves circulation without increasing heart load. It stretches your ligaments and tendons, keeping them supple. Swedish Massage stimulates your skin and simultaneously relaxes the nerves themselves. It provides relief to people of all ages - from infants to seniors - and from all walks of life - the weekend or competitive athlete to the home gardener or overstressed, overworked executive.

Treating Your Body

Massage therapy addresses a variety of health conditions, the most prevalent being stress-related tension, which, experts believe, accounts for 80%-90% of disease. Massage has been proven beneficial in treating cancer-related fatigue, sleep disorders, high blood pressure, diabetes, low back pain, immunity suppression, spinal cord injury, autism, post-operative surgery, age-related disorders, infertility, eating disorders, smoking cessation, and depression, to name just a few.

"Often times people are stressed in our culture. Stress-related disorders make up between 80-and-90 percent of the ailments that bring people to family-practice physicians. What they require is someone to listen, someone to touch them, someone to care. That does not exist in modern medicine. One of the complaints heard frequently is that physicians don't touch their patients any more. Touch just isn't there. Years ago massage was a big part of nursing. There was so much care, so much touch, so much goodness conveyed through massage. Now nurses for the most part are as busy as physicians. They're writing charts, dealing with insurance notes, they're doing procedures and often there is no room for massage any more.

I believe massage therapy is absolutely key in the healing process not only in the hospital environment but because it relieves stress, it is obviously foundational in the healing process any time and anywhere."

Joan Borysenko - Massage Journal Interview, Fall 1999