Interesting Massage Facts

Here are some interesting facts about massage and the human body.

• Massage improves circulation.
• Massage helps prevent muscle strain for those who work out.
• Massage helps improve posture by relaxing normally tense muscles.
• Reduce anxiety and depression with massage
• Massage creates a more comfortable pregnancy, our moms-to-be have a lot of aches and pains. Massage not only relieves those aches and pains but puts the soon to be mother in a relaxed state, which in turn puts the baby in a relaxed state.
  
• Touch is the first sense to develop in humans, and may be the last to fade.
• A touch of any kind can reduce the heart rate and lower blood pressure.
• Women are more likely than men to have tried alternative treatment.
  
• Women tend to live longer than men.
• There are approximately 5 million touch receptors in our skin-3000 in a finger tip.