Staying Healthy During Cold and Flu Season with Massage Therapy

​Immune System Health with Massage Therapy 

Winter is the pinnacle of cold and flu season. The cold weather can lower your immune system, making it easier for illnesses to take hold. Fortunately, there are many wellness practices that can help boost your immune system back to full strength - and above! You can drink plenty of water, keep up with your vitamins and minerals, and eat homemade healthy foods. But perhaps the most enjoyable way to boost your immune system in the winter is massage therapy.

Massage promotes your body's natural processes, including the delivery of red and white blood cells and the removal of toxins to help you stay healthy and fight the colds and flus that blow in on the winter wind.


Why Massage Improves Your Immune System

Massage is the practice of manipulating your soft tissue to promote bloodflow, lympth drainage, and muscle relaxation. All three play an important role in the functioning of your immune system. 

Circulation and Immunity

Massage causes your blood to flow more efficiently through your veins and arteries, cycling red and white blood cells through your heart and to every part of your body. Your red blood cells deliver the nutrients your body needs to stay strong and resist disease. Your white blood cells fight disease and other harmful elements wherever you might be at risk. 

By promoting circulation, massage prepares your body to stay healthy even if a cold or flu comes your way.

Lymphatic Drainage and Immunity

Your lymph system includes lymphocytes, another type of white blood cell that captures and carries away harmful toxins and virus or bacteria cells that could make you sick. Massage that promotes lymphatic drainage helps empower your lymph system's efficiency, ensuring harmful cells are quickly removed and processed so you stay healthy. Learn more about our lymphatic drainage massage services in Jacksonville, Florida.

Releasing Tension to Boost Immunity

Even massage's ability to release muscle tension has a beneficial effect on your immune system. Stress, carried in your body as muscle tension, can reduce your immune system. Releasing that stored stress and helping your muscles to relax does the opposite. Relaxed muscles enjoy better blood and lymph flow and help you focus your body's energy on fighting disease instead of holding tension.


Massage Therapy in Health and Wellness

Why should you add massage therapy to your health and wellness routine? Not only is treating yourself to a massage enjoyable, it also helps to make your immune system stronger and returns resources to your body that were locked up in muscle tension. Massage therapy also provides a benefit that is hard to DIY. Even if you're a pro at making chicken soup, taking your vitamins, and staying active in the winter to fight off colds and flus, massage provides circulation promotion and muscle release from head to toe - including areas of stored tension that are impossible to reach on your own.

Empowering Your Immune System

By promoting circulation and lymphatic drainage, your immune system will have more resources and work more efficiently to fight off winter illness. Each massage will boost your immune system for a few days or weeks depending on the rest of your health and wellness routine.

Easier to Stay Active

Massage can also empower you to keep yourself healthy. By releasing muscle tension, you will feel more energetic and able to maintain a healthy workout routine, which will also keep your immune system strong.

What To Expect from a Winter Massage

Winter massages are warm and luxurious. Massage therapy spas are often kept at a warmer temperature indoors so your muscles can more easily relax as you enjoy soft tissue manipulation. Your massage therapist will start with a personal consultation and invite you to relax or provide feedback to help improve your massage results based on whatever feels right to you.

Even a light winter massage will provide immune system benefits, but you can also request special techniques that you like best or ask for help treating particular trouble areas like spots of tension, aches, or muscle pain. 

By the end of your massage, you will feel relaxed and refreshed, and your immune system will be ready to do its best to keep you healthy.

Boost Your Immune System with Massage at The Wellness Hub

Whether you're looking for one massage or to make massage part of your wellness routine through cold and flu season and year round, The Wellness Hub in Jacksonville, Florida, is here to help. Contact us today or stop by for a consultation and to discover the immune-boosting enjoyment of a good massage in the middle of winter.

Happy New Year from all of us at The Wellness Hub and stay healthy out there!


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