Massage has been a practice that dates back thousands of years with origins in China, Egypt, and India. Each culture believed in the vast medical benefits that massage could provide including the ability to heal injuries, relieve pain, and the ability to prevent and cure illnesses.

Although therapeutic massage has been in practice for thousands of years, it has only been within the last fifty years that massage has been considered therapy in the West and has become increasingly accepted as a form of alternative medicine. Massage and alternate healing is now commonly integrated into people's daily lives as part of a healthy lifestyle regime and is even becoming more and more accepted by insurance carriers and medical practitioners.

We are becoming an increasingly aware society that is more mindful of the things that we put into our bodies and the paths that we take to recovery on a physical, mental and emotional level. Massage has been proven to provide an Ayurvedic and holistic path to wellness and according to the American Massage Therapy Associate (AMTA) can provide the following:

Relieve stress
Relieve postoperative pain
Reduce anxiety
Manage low-back pain
Help fibromyalgia pain
Reduce muscle tension
Enhance exercise performance
Relieve tension headaches
Sleep better
Ease symptoms of depression
Improve cardiovascular health
Reduce pain of osteoarthritis
Decrease stress in cancer patients
Improve balance in older adults
Decrease rheumatoid arthritis pain
Temper effects of dementia
Promote relaxation
Lower blood pressure
Decrease symptoms of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
Help chronic neck pain
Lower joint replacement pain
Increase range of motion
Decrease migraine frequency
Improve quality of life in hospice care
Reduce chemotherapy-related nausea (AMTA, 2017)

(AMTA, March 16, 2018). 25 Reasons to Get a Massage. American Massage Therapy Association. Retrieved from https://www.amtamassage.org/articles/1/News/detail/3124/25-reasons-to-get-a-massage