Remedial Massage and Its Benefits

You often get tired at work and your body begins to ache. This is when you long for a remedial massage. These massages prove to be therapeutic for the body.The remedial massage therapist provides a healing treatment to the body which can either be deep or shallow and strong or gentle. It is generally used when the muscle becomes immobile or tensed and knotted and impaired in some way and damaged.The remedial massage therapists treat the whole body holistically. It treats the cause of discomfort as far as possible and very often to its root cause. Thus with this massage it treats not just the disorder but also the symptoms. The remedial massage courses include various specialised techniques which help in locating and repairing the damage. It also helps to support the body's own repair mechanism and also speeds up the entire repairing process.

In remedial massage, a lubricating medium is used that is applied directly to the skin when the massage is done. The lubricating medium generally uses oil. It thus ensures that the penetration of the muscles that is resulting in the mobilisation and disorder of the joints takes place thoroughly. In this case the passive stretching moves are often used.There are many benefits of remedial massage. Some of the key benefits include:

• It stimulates the blood supply in the body which helps to remove the toxins from the body muscles.


• It eases the pain and discomfort in the body by calming the nervous system.


• Helps to improve joint mobility by toning and relaxing the muscles


• It also helps to improve the health of the cells, ease any stiffness and tension in the mind or body. The therapeutic relaxation also helps to repair the tissues.

This massage also heals various skeletal and muscular dysfunctions like dancing and sports injuries, muscular atrophy, whiplash, muscular cramps, frozen shoulder, arthritis, spondylitis and fibrotis. There are many corporate houses which are using the massage therapy for their employees.Today, it is widely believed that massage at workplace plays a very important role in stress management of the employees. The experts suggest that a 15 minutes work massage on a weekly basis not helps to reduce job stress but also increases work productivity and alertness.

The conditions which respond positively to the massage therapy among the workforce are:

• Physical stress and tension which is caused due to emotional and psychological stress


• Pain and joint restriction that is caused due to muscle tightness


• Ligament, tendon and muscle problems which result in lower back pain


• Dysfunctions caused by wrong postures

There are many benefits of work place therapeutic massage that is given to the employees on the floor. These are:

• It helps to improve the health of the workforce both mentally and physically


• Brings in a positive attitude to the place of work and improves the workforce morale


• It reduces the frequency of employees abstaining from work and also the work cover claims that is caused because of physical and mental stress.

These sessions generally take an hour at least depending on the treatment area.