What Does Massage Therapy Do For Your Immune System?

How Can Massage Therapy Help Your Immune System?

Immune health is one of the most important ways to stay healthy. Boosting your immune system gives you the power to fight illness and heal from injuries. We all know the usual tricks like drinking water and getting plenty of Vitamin C, but massage can also play an important role in helping your body optimize your immune capabilities.

Why? Because massage improves the natural flow of blood and lymph through your body. Massage can improve your circulation, immune cell generation, and your body's ability to flush toxins from your muscle tissue all at the same time. Here at The Wellness Hub, we know that massage is part of a whole-body approach to good health, and we'd love to explain just how massage has been proven to boost your immune system.


Massage and Your Immune System: Everything Good

First, let's explore the proven medical benefits of massage for your immune system. Massage doesn't just feel nice, it has been a long-standing method to promote the body's natural functions, including your ability heal and fight disease.

Circulation, Immune Strength, and Healing RateMassage promotes healthy circulation by applying smooth and flowing pressure to your muscles and connective tissue. Massage often intentionally pushes toward the heart, helping your blood flow while releasing tension that might constrict your veins and arteries. Massage also warms up areas of your body through friction and heated treatments, which improves blood flow.

Your blood carries nutrients and white blood cells to the areas of your body that need it. This is why blood flow is essential for injury recovery, as well, through heat and elevation.

Reduce Stress and Cortisol Levels

Stress and cortisol are known to lower your immune system. Stress from your job, your situation, or just trying to do everything can build up in your body, making you tense and generating cortisol which compromises your immune system over time. This is why people who are always stressed also tend to get sick.

Massage lowers stress, helping you to relax while flushing the stored cortisol in your cells to allow your immune system to recover.

Lymphatic Flow and Toxin Removal

Massage also focuses on promoting lymphatic flow throughout your body. Your lymph system is responsible for carrying away toxins, just as your blood carries in nutrients. By promoting the healthy flow of lymph, we can reduce cramps and boost your body's ability to get rid of toxins in your blood and muscle tissue that might make you sick. While massage therapy in general helps with lymphatic flow, we also offer specialized lymphatic massage services in Jacksonville, Florida.

Releasing Lactic Acid from Muscle Tissue

It is also well known that massage helps to release lactic acid that builds up in your muscles. Lactic acid is a side-effect of muscle burn. It happens during exercise and as the result of stress tension, and causes a cramping or burning sensation. Releasing lactic acid helps your muscles grow and improves your immune response.

Promoting Lymphocyte Generation

One interesting thing science has shown is that massage promotes the production of lymphocytes, a type of white blood cell that helps your body fight viruses, bacteria, and cancer cells. They are produced in bone marrow and mature in the blood stream. This is likely a side effect of promoting blood flow and lymphatic flow, providing nutrients to the maturing lymphocytes in your blood.

Improve Sleep Quality and Immune Benefits of Sleep

Lastly, massage is well known to improve the quality of your sleep. By relieving muscle tension and helping your body to flush toxins like cortisol and lactic acid, it is possible to relax more fully into sleep after a massage. You will sleep more deeply and longer if you have had sleep troubles before.

Sleep is an essential element of your immune system, and you go through a special healing cycle during deep sleep. By improving the depth and quality of your sleep, massage can help you get the most from that healing cycle.

Conditions that Immune-Boosting Massage Can Improve:

• Prevent colds and seasonal illness
• Recover from injury and illness more quickly
• Interrupt the stress sickness cycle
• Ease symptoms of chronic inflammatory diseases
• Relieve autoimmune inflammation and pain

Massage can play an important role in boosting your immune system to prevent sickness, recover more quickly, and relieve the symptoms of chronic conditions. Regular massage can help you prevent seasonal colds and stop the cycle of stress and getting sick that afflicts so many. It can help you heal if you need to heal and treat inflammation throughout the body related to inflammatory diseases and autoimmune diseases.

There has been a great deal of documentation on the medical benefits of targeted or regular massage.

What Can You Expect from Regular Massage Therapy?

Regular massage therapy will help you maintain the benefits of a single massage. You will enjoy boosted circulation and lymphatic system performance, with the added benefit of an increased ability to fight off colds and recover from minor injuries.

You may enjoy faster muscle recovery after exercise and an overall sense of good health. If you have specific pains or inflammation, you can ask for massage that helps to treat the symptoms and improve your day-to-day comfort.

By improving both your sleep and circulation, you may feel more energetic. By helping your muscles to relax and release toxins, you may feel more flexible and limber.

Explore Immune-Boosting Massage at The Wellness Hub in Jacksonville, Florida

At The Wellness Hub, we know that massage is part of a holistic approach to whole-body health. Our massage therapists are here to help you encourage your body to give you it's best in terms of circulation, muscle performance, and immune strength. You deserve good health, and we can help you achieve that with immune system boosting massage.

Let us help you relieve stress, reduce inflammation, and promote healthy circulation so your body's immune system can do its thing in the best possible way. Contact us to consult on our services or book your first appointment. We look forward to seeing you.


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