{"id":1731,"date":"2020-02-27T23:35:10","date_gmt":"2020-02-28T03:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qwellnessmassage.com\/blog\/?p=1731"},"modified":"2020-03-02T16:44:20","modified_gmt":"2020-03-02T20:44:20","slug":"massage-is-good-medicine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qwellnessmassage.com\/blog\/massage-is-good-medicine\/","title":{"rendered":"Massage is Good Medicine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Most people who have had a massage will agree that \u201cIt just feels good.\u201d That alone is a good reason to schedule a treatment. But The American Massage Therapy Association calls massage therapy \u201cgood medicine.\u201d <strong>You may not realize all the benefits of massage therapy for uncomfortable and chronic conditions<\/strong> that you or someone close to you may experience. The AMT has shared a list of 25 good reasons to get a massage:<\/span><\/p><br><br>\r\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>1. Relieve stress<\/p><br><br>\r\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>2. Boost immunity<\/p><br><br>\r\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>3. Reduce anxiety<\/p><br><br>\r\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>4. Manage low-back pain<\/p><br><br>\r\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>5. Help fibromyalgia pain<\/p><br><br>\r\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>6. Reduce muscle tension<\/p><br><br>\r\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>7. Enhance exercise performance<\/p><br><br>\r\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>8. Relieve tension headaches<\/p><br><br>\r\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>9. Sleep better<\/p><br><br>\r\n<p class=\"p3\">10. Ease symptoms of depression<\/p><br><br>\r\n<p class=\"p3\">11. Improve cardiovascular health<\/p><br><br>\r\n<p class=\"p3\">12. Reduce pain of osteoarthritis<\/p><br><br>\r\n<p class=\"p3\">13. Decrease stress in cancer patients<\/p><br><br>\r\n<p class=\"p3\">14. Improve balance in older adults<\/p><br><br>\r\n<p class=\"p3\">15. Decrease rheumatoid arthritis pain<\/p><br><br>\r\n<p class=\"p3\">16. Temper effects of dementia<\/p><br><br>\r\n<p class=\"p3\">17. Promote relaxation<\/p><br><br>\r\n<p class=\"p3\">18. Lower blood pressure<\/p><br><br>\r\n<p class=\"p3\">19. Decrease symptoms of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome<\/p><br><br>\r\n<p class=\"p3\">20. Help chronic neck pain<\/p><br><br>\r\n<p class=\"p3\">21. Lower joint replacement pain<\/p><br><br>\r\n<p class=\"p3\">22. Increase range of motion<\/p><br><br>\r\n<p class=\"p3\">23. Decrease migraine frequency<\/p><br><br>\r\n<p class=\"p3\">24. Improve quality of life in hospice care<\/p><br><br>\r\n<p class=\"p3\">25. Reduce chemotherapy-related nausea<\/p><br><br>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><br><br>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Most people who have had a massage will agree that \u201cIt just feels good.\u201d That alone is a good reason to schedule a treatment. But The American Massage Therapy Association calls massage therapy \u201cgood medicine.\u201d You may not realize all &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/qwellnessmassage.com\/blog\/massage-is-good-medicine\/\">Read more<\/a>","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[281],"tags":[271,291,331,321,261,81,311,301,391],"class_list":["post-1731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-massge-therapy","tag-benefits-of-massage-for-auto-injuries","tag-benefits-of-massage-for-chronic-pain","tag-licened-lmt-oyster-bay","tag-licensed-massage-therapist-north-shore-long-island","tag-licensed-massage-therapists-who-accept-no-fault-coverage","tag-massage-therapy-in-oyster-bay","tag-massge-therapy-for-chronic-neck-pain","tag-migraines-and-massage-therapy","tag-nassau-county-north-shore-massage-therapist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qwellnessmassage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qwellnessmassage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qwellnessmassage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qwellnessmassage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qwellnessmassage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1731"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/qwellnessmassage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1861,"href":"https:\/\/qwellnessmassage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1731\/revisions\/1861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qwellnessmassage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qwellnessmassage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qwellnessmassage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}