Why Abdominal Massage?
Why include abdominal massage as part of your massage session? You have four layers of muscles in your abdomen, and that doesn’t include the diaphragm, which lies directly under the rib cage, or the psoas, which lies under those four muscle layers (rectus abdominis, external obliques, internal obliques, and tranverse abdominis). Abdominal muscles get tense too! In fact, tense muscles in the abdomen can contribute to back pain and to problems with organs (stomach, colon, small intestine, liver, pancreas, and gall bladder). Massaging the abdomen can improve blood circulation, help open the abdominal cavity, and release the fascia so the organs can lay unrestricted in their natural positions in the abdominal cavity. Basic Swedish massage training does include ab massage, but because so few people have had their abdomens massaged, many massage therapists do not offer abdominal massage as part of their usual massage. You may have to ask your massage therapist specifically about abdomen mass
