When pain strikes, we tense our bodies, especially our musculature. The problem with that is, muscle tension exacerbates pain. People who clench their jaw or grind their teeth for example, may discover this fact when the tension they’re causing migrates elsewhere in the skull, causing a full on headache. Or, in the worst of cases, a migraine! Nobody wants that. Similarly, muscular tension can make pain worse. It can also lead to more problems, when a tense body clenches itself out of alignment.
Massage can help with this. Studies have shown that skillful human touch, especially therapeutic massage, calms stress, lowers blood pressure, and unclenches muscles. That naturally reduces pain!
Perhaps you have noticed that when you bump your shin on a coffee table, you rub it vigorously. That’s because when you flood your bruised bone with sensation, you actually confuse and overwhelm your nervous system, which can greatly reduce pain. We understand this intuitively, so we do it. Well, massage helps with pain for the same reason. By flooding your brain with therapeutic touch and pleasant sensation, massage can help to override the body’s pain response, and melt it away.
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