 Stress is something we experience as well adjust to our continually changing environment; it can be both positive and negative. Positive stress can encourage action and raise our awareness and excitement. Negative stress can cause feeling of anxiety, depression, create sleep loss, anger, high blood pressure and other medical problems.
Stress hormone is reduced by massage therapyThe positive effect of massage therapy on biochemistry are reviewed that it decreases level of cortisol and increase level of serotonin and dopamine. Pain syndrome studies, research on auto-immune conditions (including asthma and chronic fatigue), immune studies( including HIV and breast cancer), and studies on the reduction stress on the job, the stress of aging ,and pregnancy stress.(Field T, Hernandez- Reif M, Diego M, Schuanberg S, Kuhn C. int. J Neurosci. Oct:115 (10) 1397-413).
 Registered Massage Therapists may help
*Reduce muscle soreness
*Decrease stress and anxiety
*Promote relaxation
*Decrease muscle tension
*Improve sleep
*Decrease depression
Massage therapy may improve group who suffering from low back pain and anxiety and increase the sleep quality. Manual Therapy treatment may improve increases level of serotonin and dopamine.
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