Effects of massage

Fundamentally with the massage, effects can be gotten "mechanics" that are those taken place by means of the manual contact and the effects "psychological or mental".

Mechanics effects

Inside of the mechanics effects, can be distinguished two types:

1. Local effect that is the one that takes place in an aching or treated area

2. Reflective effect that is the one that takes place in a distant area to the one tried. For example, when acting in the lumbar vertebras, effects take place in the intestinal area that can be of help in the cases of constipation.

Besides the effects on the muscular mass, the massages also act, in a beneficial way, in:

• The sanguine circulation

• The lymphatic circulation

• The nervous system

• The muscular fabric

• The fatty fabric

• The bony fabric

• The organs

• The skin

• The mind

Effects on the sanguine circulation

It increases the sanguine flow to the treated area and those related with the same one, also favoring the veined return to the heart. We should not forget that also with the massage, will be helped that the blood distributes with more easiness the oxygen toward those organs or fabrics that specify it, getting this way the best regeneration in the same ones.

It improves at the same time, the liberation of histamines, endorphins, etc. The effects of the massage, are also made notorious, in the arterial circulation, an evidence of this fact, is the rosy tone that acquires the area tried after some sessions and the improvement that the patient experiences.

Effects on the lymphatic circulation

When acting on the skin of a certain area, we impact in the lymphatic vessels that are in an internal area, improving this way their specific function.

Effects on the nervous system

The effect of the massage is multipurpose, since it can be stimulating, when acting on the nerves motors, or relaxing and sedative when acting on the sensitive nerves; although in some exceptional cases, this rule cannot be completed. 

Effects on the muscular fabric

By means of the increase of the vascularization, that gets the massage, the muscle will find with more easiness the nutrients that specifies, helping also to the elimination of toxins and waste products.

With the massage the contractures taken place by lack of the appropriate sanguine watering are also avoided.

Effects on the fatty fabric

When the massage accompanies of an appropriate diet and/or exercise, helps to dissolve with easiness, those bags or deposits of located fat.

Effects on the bony fabric

Although the massage doesn't act directly on the own bone, to being the bony fabric an alive element in constant renovation, the activation of the sanguine circulation, accelerates the regeneration processes and improvement of the bones, in cases of fractures for example. 

Effects on the organs

The empty organs, how for example the stomach or the tripes, are those more beneficiaries, for the effects of the massage, since for their structure, they possess muscular fibers.

In the rest of organs non holes you will act in a reflective way.

Effects on the skin

The massage liberates the skin of having undone and of dead cells that can be, in form of flakes.

When stimulating the circulation of fluids as blood and lymph, active the nutrition and cellular multiplication, contributing without the minor appears of doubts, to retard the aging of the skin.

Psychological effects of the massage

Of all it is known that the relaxing effect of the massage, stimulates the patient's receptivity, for this reason special care will be had with the atmosphere, that is to say to have the appropriate light, the opportune temperature, a relaxing music. The stay will be clean and free of noises and stridencies. In a good atmosphere it will be much simpler to obtain the trust of the patient one and one must forget that some words of understanding, in the appropriate moment, they usually produce effects so important as the complete treatment. 

 Center of Psychology and Health of
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