How does Therapeutic Massage Work?
• Relaxes muscles • Improves range of motion • Increases serotonin and endorphins, • enhances medical treatment • Reduces blood pressure and heart rate • Increases blood circulation • Boost the body’s immune system functioning Rubbing may interfere with pain signals’ pathways to your brain, a process called the “gate control theory,” according to experts. Pain impulses run toward the spinal cord and then up the cord and into the brain. It’s only when they reach the brain that these impulses, are perceived as pain. When you rub, it sends other impulses along the same nerves. When all these impulses try to reach the brain through nerves, the nerves get clogged like a highway during rush hour. The result is that most of them won’t reach the brain. And if the pain signals does not reach the brain, you won’t feel pain. Thus massage works by ‘closing the gate’ that pain impulses have to pass through.
