BENEFITS OF MASSAGE THERAPY I employ my own forms of massage therapy in the form of rubbing out the soft tissue trauma. Sprained muscles and ligaments keep pulling vertebrae and other bones out of alignment. The injuries let vertebrae and other bones move way outside of their normal ranges of motion. One of the significant results is lack of flexibility. The spasmed muscles keep pulling your spine and skeletal bones out of their normal alignment. I have found that rubbing out the origin and insertion of sprained muscles and ligaments lets the opposing muscles and ligaments relax back into normal tone. Then your vertebrae stay aligned. Your body is held erect by a precise system of opposition. Without your muscles opposing each other, you would be a lump on the floor. When a muscle or ligament is sprained and cannot maintain its normal strength, the muscle that is its paired opposite must go into spasm. The spasmed muscles pull vertebrae out of alignment. they twist your knees and ankles into misalignment patterns. The misalignments kink all of your circulatory systems. Kinks are all bad. Once the soft tissue injuries have been rubbed out and the vertebrae and the other skeletal bones have been gently realigned, your body begins to heal itself. Then all of your circulatory systems can communicate completely and freely. You begin to experience the simple joys of movement you had as a child. Your stress levels quickly come down and many seemingly intractable conditions begin to resolve. Many problems that you may have considered permanent, and have been diagnosed as diseases, are temporary blockages in your normal body's communication systems. The most concise definition of health I have heard is "every cell communicating clearly with every other cell". Health is simple. When your spine is aligned, you feel fine. All of your circulatory systems depend upon a healthy flexible spine and skeletal system. When you can move in your normal ranges of motion every part of your health improves. |
