Holistic Massage Bracknell information

Holistic Massage, Swedish Massage, Relaxing Massage, General Massage. They all pretty much mean the same thing.

There are many reported benefits of Massage. You only need to use a search engine to find all you want to know about Massage. However, to give you an idea, aside from the obvious reduction in tension in the muscles and soft tissue you would expect, Massage has many less known knock-on effects.

It may reduce heart rate, lowers blood pressure, increases circulation, increases lymph flow, aids joint range of motion (because muscles relax), and causes endorphins (happy or well-being hormones) to be released in the body.

Some research seems to suggest that office workers who receive a regular massage are more alert, less stressed, and perform their jobs better. This applies in other areas. Manual workers will experience fewer aches and pains, can work for longer without pain, and indeed lose fewer working days (often unpaid) to injury.

Interestingly, massage can have excellent benefits for Autistic children and adults. It makes sense that any opportunity to reduce stress and anxiety will have a direct impact on any stress-fuelled behaviour.

How often do we hear that stress invades all areas of our lives? Stress is blamed for all manner of illness; cancer, mental health, heart problems, increased blood pressure, skin complaints. I am sure we have all heard of someone whose premature death was attributed to stress in one form or another.  Surely the world we live in now is more stressful than ever. Email, mobile phones, Blackberry devices, food additives, road rage, computer rage, to name but a few, all contribute to the ever increasing stressors we find ourselves exposed to daily.

If this is of interest to you, why not give me a call to find out more? 

Elgar Physio and Sports Massage

(updated 4/11)