The benefits include:

• Massage relaxes muscle contractions, spasms, and relieves general body tensions.
• Massage dilates the blood vessels, thus improving the circulation.
• Massage acts as a “mechanical cleanser” pushing along  lymphatic fluids and hastening the elimination of wastes and toxic debris.
• Massage increases the blood supply and nutrition to muscles without adding to their load of toxic lactic acid, produced through voluntary muscle contraction. Massage thus helps to overcome harmful “fatigue” products resulting from strenuous exercise or injury.
• Massage improves muscle tone and helps prevent or delay muscular atrophy resulting from forced inactivity
• Massage can compensate, in part, for lack of exercise and muscular contraction in persons who because of injury, illness or age are forced to remain inactive. In these cases, massage helps return venous blood to the heart and so eases the strain on this vital organ.
• Massage may sedate or stimulate  the nervous system depending on the type of massage administered.
• Massage can prevent or remove adhesion’s in body tissues.
• Massage  improves the general circulation and nutrition of tissues. It is accompanied or followed by an increased interchange of substances between the blood and tissue cells increasing tissue metabolism.
• Massage increases the excretion of  fluids and nitrogen, inorganic phosphorous and salt in normal healthy individuals.
• Massage helps the body retain needed minerals like nitrogen, phosphorous and sulphur, need for body repairs of tissues and bones. ( hip fractures).
• Massage improves nutrition to the joints. This lessens inflammation and swelling in those joints, which in turn alleviates pain.
• Massage reduces edema (swellings)  and in turn facilitates better movement.
• Massage will improve flexibility in body and body limbs.
• Massage instills a sense of well being.
• Massage benefits are not limited to this list.