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Well-being Benefits From Hot Stone Massage

When choosing your next massage, consider a hot stone massage.

It’s a great way to improve the effectiveness of your massage. Your muscles will find a deeper state of relaxation to help your massage therapist work deeply on your aches and pains.

And with a hot stone massage, the warmth you feel on your body will help your mind relax, too. Stress and anxiety are quickly forgotten when resting with hot stones during your massage.

Your Circulation Improves

Poor circulation causes muscle tension and overall fatigue. A good hot stone massage is a great solution to these issues. 

During the massage, your therapist places heated stones on trigger points throughout your body.

The heat from the stones penetrates through muscle to open your blood vessels. As this happens, blood flows more freely through your body for better circulation.

As your circulation improves, more oxygen reaches your muscles to help reduce aches and pains.

Your Pain Subsides

One reason we get a massage is to relieve neck or back pain. 

Back or neck pain is often caused by poor posture leading to tight muscles. You might apply a heating pad to a sore low back to help relieve pain. 

When muscles are extra tight, sometimes a massage alone isn’t enough to loosen you enough to relieve pain. That’s when heat helps most. 

Targeted heat from hot stones helps warm your muscles for better manipulation during the massage.

Sometimes the pain you feel is deep within your muscles and joints. Heat helps your massage therapist work a little deeper into your tissue.

Your Stress Eases

There’s something about warmth and massage that helps stress fade away. 

The light pressure from the warm stones can be soothing. Hot stone therapy feels like a warm hug in a safe place. 

Stresses take a back seat while your massage therapist works your muscles. Hot stone therapy can also help with symptoms of depression and anxie

Your Spasms Decrease

If you’ve ever had a muscle spasm, you know how painful they are. 

Some muscle spasms can be debilitating. Other spasms can last for hours. 

With a hot stone massage, the benefit of heat loosens your muscles more effectively. This technique also helps reduce inflammation common with muscles in spasm.

Boosts Your Immunity

We’re talking about your immune system for this benefit.

A scientific study showed an increase in lymphocytes after a single session of Swedish massage. Lymphocytes help white blood cells fight infection in the body.

Adding hot stone therapy to your massage might enhance the effectiveness of the massage to boost your infection-fighting cells.

Helps Fight Disease

Massage is one of the most effective ways to treat symptoms of autoimmune diseases. 

Be sure your massage therapist knows you deal with an autoimmune disease before your appointment. They should take special care during your massage to respond to the effects of your disease on your body.

But if you and your doctor agree, hot stone therapy can help ease painful conditions associated with fibromyalgia, lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, and other autoimmune diseases.

Your Flexibility Increases

Stiff joints make it hard to move through day-to-day activities. Massage can help loosen tight joints and the muscles around joints.

If you have an injury or extremely tight joints, placing hot stones on and around those joints helps loosen those areas better than massage without the use of hot stones. 

With regular hot stone therapy, you’ll notice your flexibility improves over time. Your joints will be more relaxed, and you’ll find it easier to move with less friction and pain.

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