How Motion Massage Can Help Improve Posture
If you’re experiencing back pain, neck pain, or headaches due to poor posture, massage can help. It’s a common problem that can be corrected by regular massage.
Poor posture causes muscle imbalances. These imbalances can limit the body’s natural range of motion, stressing the joints, muscles, ligaments, and tendons.
Increased Tissue Elasticity
Poor posture can lead to pain, tension, limited range of motion, breathing difficulties, joint compression, and muscle fatigue. It can also affect your mood and self-esteem.
People with a bad posture are often unaware of it until they look in the mirror. Common symptoms include rounded shoulders, swayback, weak abdominal muscles, and a forward head.
These problems can occur for various reasons, including sitting incorrectly, not moving around enough, and having tight muscles that make the spine stick out (kyphotic) or protruding the stomach area (lordotic). Postural dysfunction and imbalance can have debilitating effects on your body.
Massage therapy can help correct bad posture by realigning the joints and muscles. It enables you to stand straighter, move more quickly, look more confident, and feel more energetic.
Increased Relaxation
The hands-on bodywork involved in massage reduces stress levels and promotes relaxation and ease. It has also been shown to decrease cortisol levels, a hormone that can lead to increased anxiety and lowered mood states.
The rubbing and friction in massage can warm up the tissues and increase blood flow. This enhanced circulation can deliver nourishing compounds to muscles, connective tissue, and skin, improving physical performance and aiding recovery.
It also stimulates the lymphatic system, a fluid that carries immune cells and helps fight off infection and inflammation. A healthy lymphatic system is critical to a strong and balanced immune system.
By releasing tight muscles, motion massage can help improve posture and allow the body to move more freely. But it’s important to note that just one massage session won’t fix a bad posture, and it will take some time for the body to adapt to your new posture. Regular self-care exercises and awareness of your body’s alignment can help you maintain proper posture.
Reduced Pain
Bad posture can result in various physical problems, from muscle stiffness and pain to reduced range of motion. Common symptoms of poor posture include:
- Neck and back pain.
- Hunching the shoulders too far forward (kyphosis).
- Inflexibility or sticking out of the buttocks area (lordosis).
If you have arthritis, massage can be a natural way to help reduce your pain and ease tension. But it would be best to speak with your doctor to ensure your safety.
Research shows that massage can decrease the pain you experience by increasing blood circulation to an affected area, reducing tight muscles, and releasing endorphins. It also helps remove waste products and toxins in your body.
Increased Mobility
The muscles in the body can become tight and tense for many reasons. These can include overuse, injury, stress, and aging. Massage can help increase mobility in the muscles, tendons, ligaments, and joints by stimulating blood flow to these areas.
Increasing muscle elasticity allows the muscles to stretch to their full range of movement without restriction. It can reduce pain, aches, and tension.
In addition, increased mobility improves balance and lowers the risk of falling. It is an excellent reason to include massage in your fitness routine.
Massage has also been shown to release feel-good endorphins into the body. These endorphins are also known to be a natural pain reliever.