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Massage can boost immunity which helps to fend off illnesses–meaning fewer medical bills and days off work, which are important elements that effect your life. In addition, a few of the other benefits that massage can provide include better sleep, reduced anxiety, and a sense of emotional balance.

Now, more than ever, massage is playing a role in reducing the stress and strengthening the health of Americans. When our clients feel their best, they are more likely to be able to face the challenges that difficult times present with poise, clarity of purpose, and strengthened emotional reserves. The better you feel, the better job you can do of caring for yourself and your loved ones.

Truly, massage is more than a luxury – it’s a vital part of self-care that has a positive ripple effect on us as we work, play, and care for others.

Massage Helps You at Home

Children are very sensitive and often pick up on tension in the household. Massage therapy helps parents who are taking this step in caring for themselves to be better caregivers and provide a sense of security for their kids. This is the same for caregivers of aging parents and other family members as well. Massage Advantage provides this tension relief, clearer thinking, and emotional balance as a result of our therapeutic massages.

Massage Helps in the Workplace

The health benefits of massage can help forestall illnesses and lost work time, especially when you may be asked to produce more with fewer resources. Other factors include decision-making skills and job performances often being improved. These are a result of clearer focus and more energy that can be sought after through Massage Advantage’s therapeutic massages.

Massage Can Help in the Relief of Existing Conditions

Proactively caring for your health with massage therapy may help reduce costly doctor visits and use of prescription and over-the-counter medications. Those with already existing health conditions can continue to reap benefits in the following ways:

• Abdominal Surgery: After massage is introduced, patients of abdominal surgery recover more quickly.
• Alzheimer’s: Customized massage around the neck and shoulders has reduced pacing, irritability, and restlessness in patients of Alzheimer’s.
• Arthritis: Massage is beneficial in reducing symptoms associated with arthritis.
• Asthma: Massage is beneficial in reducing symptoms associated with asthma.
• Back Pain: Deep-tissue massage is effective in treating back pain.
• Burns: Massage is beneficial in reducing symptoms associated with burns, including a decrease in itching.
• Carpal Tunnel: Massage reduces symptoms of carpal tunnel syndrome.
• Fibromyalgia: Deep-tissue massage is effective on fibromyalgia. Firbo patients receiving massage also have less pain, depression, anxiety, stiffness, fatigue, and sleep problems.
• High Blood Pressure: Massage is beneficial in reducing symptoms of high blood pressure and premenstrual syndrome.
• Labor Pain: Massage during labor appears to reduce stress and anxiety, relaxes muscles and helps block pain. Some medical professionals believe massage also reduces tearing, shortens labor, reduces the need for medication and shortens hospital stays.
• Oncology: After massage therapy is introduced, oncology patients show less pain, fatigue, nausea, anxiety and depression.
• Osteoarthritis: Deep-tissue massage is effective in treating osteoarthritis.
• PMS: Massage is beneficial in reducing symptoms associated with premenstrual syndrome.
• Postsurgical Pain: Massage therapy is effective in reducing postsurgical pain.
• Premature Babies: Those babies receiving massage therapy gain more weight and have shorter hospital stays than other premature babies.
• Soreness: Massage can reduce sports-related soreness and improve circulation–good to know when you may be exercising more to reduce stress.
• Strokes: With massage therapy, stroke patients show less anxiety and lower blood pressure.

(Source: American Massage Therapy Association)

Mental Benefits of Massage

The positive effects of regular massage can have benefits in many areas of your life.

• Promotes a relaxed state of mental alertness
• Fosters peace of mind
• Helps relieve mental stress
• Improves the ability to monitor stress signals and respond appropriately
• Enhances capacity for calm thinking and creativity
• Emotional benefits
• Fosters a feeling of well-being
• Reduces levels of anxiety
• Creates body awareness
• Increases awareness of mind-body connection

Physical Benefits of Massage

• Helps relieve stress and aids relaxation
• Helps relieve muscle tension and stiffness
• Alleviates discomfort during pregnancy
• Fosters faster healing of strained muscles and sprained ligaments; reduces pain and swelling; reduces formation of excessive scar tissue
• Reduces muscle spasms
• Provides greater joint flexibility and range of motion
• Enhances athletic performance
• Treats injuries caused during sports or work
• Promotes deeper and easier breathing
• Improves circulation of blood and movement of lymph fluids
• Reduces blood pressure
• Helps relieve tension-related headaches and effects of eye-strain
• Enhances the health and nourishment of skin
• Improves posture
• Strengthens the immune system
• Treats musculoskeletal problems
• Post operative rehabilitation
• Rehabilitation after injury

Swedish Massage

30 Minutes $50 – 60 Minutes $80 – 90 Minutes $120

Swedish massage is the most common and best-known type of massage in the West. If it’s your first time at the spa or you don’t get massage very often, Swedish massage is the perfect place to begin! Give yourself permission to unwind! Through the use of flowing and continuous strokes, this popular form of bodywork is a great way to help decrease stress and assist with the health and balance of your circulatory, nervous and lymphatic systems.

Deep Tissue Massage

30 Minutes $60 – 60 Minutes $90 – 90 Minutes $130

The techniques in this deep tissue massage target areas of chronic tension, pain or muscle dysfunction. If you are looking to break down scar tissue from a previous injury, increase muscle flexibility and length, or decrease chronic muscle tension, deep tissue massage is perfect for you.

Aromatherapy Massage

60 Minutes $95 – 90 Minutes $135

Breathe in pure botanical aromas in this massage that soothes mind and body. Our custom blends of pure essential oil extracts can deepen your relaxation or help to further decrease muscle tension. Aromatherapy massage gives you maximum relaxation results!

Pregnancy Massage

60 Minutes $90 – 90 Minutes $130

Let us assist you during one of life’s most exciting physical and emotional journeys. Expecting a child is one of the most exciting times in a woman’s life. Unfortunately the joy of pregnancy can be overshadowed by the discomforts of pregnancy. Luckily our pregnancy massage therapy may reduce some of these unwanted side effects of pregnancy.

Our therapists are here to support and nurture you and your body with a pregnancy massage that will help relax and calm your mind while relieving tension through each stage of your pregnancy, from first trimester to last.

Warm Stone Massage

90 Minutes $140

Smooth basalt river stones are heated to a perfectly soothing temperature and used to perform a tranquilizing massage. The penetrating heat from the stones melts away muscle tension, resulting in a deeply relaxing experience.

Thai Massage

90 Minutes $140

This ancient form of massage originated in Thailand over 2500 years ago. Assisted stretches and compressions encourage energy flow through the “Sen lines” of your body. Likened to assisted yoga, this clothed massage increases flexibility, range of motion, and improves the flow of energy.

Couple’s Massage

(per person) 60 Minutes $90 – 90 Minutes $130

Enjoy a massage of your choice, side by side with a loved one.

Reflexology

30 Minutes $60 – 60 Minutes $90

Massage Enhancements

Add Dry Brush: $10
Warm Toes/Fingers – Paraffin Treatment: $15
Warm Scalp Treatment – Green Tea and Tea Tree: $30
Take a Load Off- Cooling Leg and Foot Treatment: $30