Massage Therapy
Forget massage as only a feel-good way to indulge or pamper yourself. Massage can be a powerful tool to help you embrace your health and well-being, whether you have a specific concern or are just looking for comprehensive recovery and rejuvenation.
During your time at Function your experience will be personalized. Our focus is you, we want to do what we can to enhance your everyday life experiences well beyond the 60 or 90-minute session.
Massage therapy also has a number of documented clinical benefits. For example, massage can reduce anxiety, increase anaerobic and aerobic exercise recovery, improve pulmonary function in young asthma patients, reduce psycho-emotional distress and may enhance immune system functioning.
Benefits
Generally, massage is known to affect the circulation of blood and the flow of blood and lymph, reduce muscular tension or flaccidity, affect the nervous system through stimulation or sedation, and enhance tissue healing. These effects provide a number of benefits:
reduction of muscle tension and stiffness
relief of muscle spasms
greater flexibility and range of motion
increase of the ease and efficiency of movement
relief of stress and aide of relaxation
promotion of deeper and easier breathing
improvement of the circulation of blood and movement of lymph
relief of tension-related conditions, such as headaches and eyestrain
promotion of faster healing of soft tissue injuries, such as pulled muscles and sprained ligaments, and reduction in pain and swelling related to such injuries
reduction in the formation of excessive scar tissue following soft tissue injuries
enhancement in the health and nourishment of skin
improvement in posture through changing tension patterns that affect posture
reduction in stress and an excellent stress management tool
creation of a feeling of well-being
reduction in levels of anxiety
increase in awareness of the mind-body connection
promotion of a relaxed state of mental awareness