According to numerous studies, a massage isn’t just for relaxing and lowering stress, massage can help improve sleep.
Do you lay awake worrying about work, finances, relationships or other stressful issues? A massage may be just what you need. Regular massage sessions have been found to decrease depression, anxiety levels and improve sleep quality. It can trigger the release of serotonin, a neurotransmitter for calming.
Massage can encourage more time spent in the deep, restorative stages of sleep. People with low back pain who received a 30-minute session, twice a week for five weeks, reported a decrease in pain and fewer sleep disturbances.
Recent article, “Hyperarousal and insomnia: state of the science,” published in Sleep Medicine Reviews, suggest that insomnia could occur due to physiological hyperarousal. This is where your sympathetic system works in overdrive, raising body temperature and heart rate during waking and sleeping hours. This increase in our metabolic rate, will make our brain work harder even while we are asleep and increase our levels of stress hormones. When our brain goes into hyperdrive, it leads to a nonstop dialogue with ourselves, excessive worrying and a feeling anxiousness. This is a vicious cycle we don’t even realize our body goes into as we add more stress to our lives. Massage therapy is an excellent way to interrupt this vicious, self-perpetuating cycle in the nervous system via mechanoreceptors. While also normalizing the local environment around peripheral receptors.
Massage is considered a complementary and alternative medicine used by millions of people to improve sleep, relieve pain, reduce stress and anxiety, rehabilitate injuries and boost general health. There are more than 80 massage therapy styles, from Swedish to Deep Tissue to Myofascial Massage. Talk to your massage therapist about which style is best for your health benefits.
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