Massage Therapy

Massage Therapy

Soothe Your Body and Remain Healthy with Massage Therapy in Seattle.

Many people realize that body work is excellent for de-stressing.  But did you know that massages can keep the body healthy?   In addition to relaxing the body and mind, they also help with working out tender areas, aligning the spine, and reducing the tight muscles that contribute to back pain.

Reap the Benefits of Regular Massage:

  • Sleep Improvement
  • Mood Elevation
  • Pain Relief
  • Immune System Strengthening
  • Increased Awareness of Body
  • Circulation Improvement
  • Motion and Flexibility Range Improvement
  • Headache Decrease
  • Anxiety and Hypertension Decrease

Get the Best in Care with Acupuncture,  Massage and Chiropractic

To attain the best results from body work visits, it is important to combine this therapy with hydration, acupuncture sessions, and chiropractic care.   Massage therapy solves the problems in the muscles, acupuncture boosts your healing energy, and by aligning the spine, a chiropractor allows the nervous system to have a better chance of fighting against illness and pain.   Therefore, by combining your efforts, the body can relax, unwind, detoxify and heal faster.

Massage and Chiropractic

Massage therapy is also good for the nervous system.    Normally, Chiropractic treatments are given after your massage.  The adjustments are much more effective this way.  Sometimes the body can be so stiff that it resists the adjustments.  When it becomes relaxed through massage though, it allows the doctor of chiropractic to more easily realign various parts of it.

The massage when used with chiropractic treatments, is good is also good for physical injuries such as those that happen in car accidents.  Also injuries can occur from sports, gardening or a variety of other activities.  Massage and chiropractic treatments stimulate blood circulation and the immune system.  By doing massage you are using the body’s natural energy to heal itself.

Because massages increase blood flow, they can also help relieve headaches.  Many people suffer from headaches on a regular basis.  The improved circulation helps to decrease the pain and stimulate nerve flow.  You can see why the massage works so well with chiropractic treatments.

Different types of massages address your specific needs .  The Swedish massage is great for relaxing the body.  It is also good for rejuvenating the tissues and muscles.  The deep tissue massage is used to reach deeper into the body and is normally used in the case of injury to repair the damage.  Other techniques are also available, such as Fire Cupping, Reflexology, and GuSha (scraping).

Call Active Wellness today for an appointment (206)547-9944.