Deep Tissue Massage Benefits

Benefits of Deep Tissue Treatment

There are a number of benefits associated with deep tissue treatment. Let’s go through a few of them, starting with the most obvious.

Massage Decreases Muscle Tension

Yes, deep tissue massage unquestionably decreases muscle tension, but it’s important to understand why.

When your muscles feel tight, cramped, and knotted, what you’re feeling is a deprivation of blood flow to those areas. That’s fundamentally why we get aches and pains in our muscles: over time and through use (and misuse) our muscles are subject to wear and tear and knotting, cutting off some areas from the blood flow they need to be healthy.

During a deep tissue massage, the pressure the massage therapist applies to your muscles causes the areas that have become cramped and knotted to relax. This restores the flow of blood, and ends the feelings of pain.

So, more blood flow means less pain. That’s an important thing to understand: it’s the fundamental reason we get uncomfortable in the first place, and it’s also why we find massage so relaxing.

Of course, this also points to the importance of massage, especially if you have stressed, aching, pained muscles often.

Massage Increases Relaxation and Well-Being

This one is also pretty obvious: when you get a deep tissue massage, you will find yourself relaxing and feeling a profound sense of wellbeing at a level you may not have thought possible.

The reason for this is in part all of that relaxing pressure applied to your muscle fibers. As your muscle fibers let go and the flow of blood is restored and improves, a lot of your aches and pains will go away.

In fact, part of what’s happening when you get a massage is a reduction in the levels of the stress hormone cortisol. When levels of this hormone go down, so does your blood pressure.

Your immune system is also boosted, and you will have an easier time avoiding obesity, which is more of an issue for people who live with elevated levels of cortisol.

And, too, massage also releases endorphins, hormones which help your body to feel better and have a generally increased sense of wellbeing.

An endorphin release is mood-elevating, and will help you if you are feeling depressed or blue. In addition to exercise, one of the surest ways to stimulate a good endorphin release is a good massage, preferably a deep tissue massage.

Imagine what the effects of getting a deep tissue massage on a regular basis are: if you get one regularly, you’ll find yourself generally feeling healthier and actually being healthier as well, since more massage will mean less disease and discomfort.

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