Regimens: Massage Benefits Are More Than Skin Deep

Do you ever think about having a massage after a long day? Well I'm sure a lot of people do since they are relaxing and you feel much better afterwords. A study in LA was help on Swedish deep tissue massages and they actually found out that with these massages everyday people had some positive effects on their health. They saw that the deep massages decreased the amount of stress hormones as well as increasing that amount of white blood cells the clients had. This means you would be less stressed and your immune system would be very strong. This kind of makes me want to get massages everyday. They also did tests on softer massages which also had positive effects. This one also decreased the amount of stress hormones and had more of a hormone that has to do with how content a person is. I know I'd be happy after this too so all of the research makes sense. I wonder if other massage methods can have any other positive effects on the body.


RABIN, RONI CARYN. "Vital Signs - A Good Massage Brings Biological Changes, Too - NYTimes.com." The New York Times - Breaking News, World News & Multimedia. N.p., n.d. Web. 20 Sept. 2010. .