Nancy Newman, LMP 206-419-5427
Are you looking to increase improve your health and emotional well being? Or perhaps increase your flexibility and mobility, or possibly recovering from injury or surgery, It is my sincere commitment to provide you with the highest quality of massage care, personalized to meet your specific needs: Structural Integration Bodywork, Lymphatic Facilitation, Pregnancy Massage, Relaxation Massage, and Sports & Exercise Massage.
What Massage Can Do For You
When faced with numerous responsibilities and tasks or the demands of an illness, relaxation and self care may take a back seat in your life. Over time, accumulated stress often results in physical pain which is the number one reason most people come for therapeutic massage.
Stress and the Human Body
The human body is designed to experience stress and react to it. Stress can be positive, keeping us alert and ready to avoid danger. Stress becomes negative when a person faces continuous challenges without relief or relaxation between challenges. As a result, the person becomes overworked and stress-related tension builds.
Stress that continues without relief can lead to a condition called distress — a negative stress reaction. Distress can lead to physical symptoms. Research suggests that stress also can bring on or worsen certain symptoms or diseases. Stress also becomes harmful when people use alcohol, tobacco, or drugs to try and relieve their stress. Unfortunately, instead of relieving the stress and returning the body to a relaxed state, these substances tend to keep the body in a stressed state and cause more problems.
Consider This:
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It is estimated that 43% of all adults suffer adverse health effects from stress.
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Over 75% of all doctor’s office visits are for stress-related ailments and complaints.
How does massage therapy provide relief from stress?
You probably have heard that massage improves circulation, right? But exactly what does that mean? Well, throughout our bodies we have a clear fluid that circulates around the body tissues called “lymph.” At the same time, we may have inflammation, which is an immune response to injury or infection that causes pain, redness, heat and swelling in the affected area—in our muscles, around our muscles, even in our joints. When lymph and inflammation start to accumulate in the body, the excess fluid will put pressure on blood vessels and our circulation will decrease, limiting blood flow to that area. As the pressure increases, it irritates the nerves, which will cause you to have pain. By helping the body remove excess lymph and inflammation, massage therapy can make your blood flow better, which will reduce the pressure that is irritating the nerves and get rid of your pain.
And as if that were not enough, massage may provide a number of other benefits: relaxing the muscles, improving range of motion, improving sleep and increasing production of endorphins, which will improve your mood. Is it any wonder you feel like a million bucks after a massage?
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Nancy Newman, LMP License #00024649
My Massage in Seattle
4227 4th Avenue NW, Seattle, WA 98107 office 206-419-5427 fax 206-905-2999
Nancy cell 425-283-8709
