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Massage therapy means the manipulation of the tissues in a scientific way with the purpose of normalizing thesoft tissues in the body. It is composed of manual techniques including stable or moving pressure application, holding, body movement or movements applied towards the body.

Such techniques affect the muscle, skeleton, circulation, lymph, neural systems and other systems in the body. The fundamental philosophy of the massage therapy includes the "Bis medicatrix naturee (Healing power of the nature)" view supporting the self-healing ability of the body and aiming at acquiring or recovering the health.

Massage's Impact on Muscles

While muscles constitute almost half of the body weight, they use most of the blood circulation. They perform the convulsion and loosening activities under the cotrol of the central neural system and through the motor nerves. They act as pumps by straining and loosening.

Inactivaty muscles suffer from atrophy. Rhythmical activity applied to muscles through massage helps the inactivity muscles be prevented. When the circulation in the inactive muscles are insufficient, entry of nutrients and disposal of wastes reduce.

When these muscles are activated through massage, the circulation accelerated and accumulated waste materials are moved away and nutrients are allowed to enter. Muscles massaged recuperate easily. Muscle weaknesses and muscle laxity are prevented. The ability of muscles to react is enhanced and strengthened.

Massages applied to the connective tissue system reveal great impacts for muscles and ligaments in the vicinity. A conscious massage applied to joints preserves the ability of movement and prevents the loss of motion. Active and passive gymnastics and massages may be applied successfully for the weaknesses of joing ligaments. They allow the soft tissue cohesions to solve and contracted tendons to stretch.

Massage's Impact on the Circulation System

Heart's function is ensured mechanically through massages in and through the blood and lymph systems. Thinking that the heart muscles ensuring the coercion of the heart pump blood to the entire body and that the large circulation such as the return of the arterial blood to the heart by turning into venous blood in the periphery without any help being provided for the heart and the small circulation ensured to clean this venous blood; we understand how helpful the massage is for the heart.

Massage's Impact on the Skin

The human skin is extremely advanced due to its structure to accept the effects of the massage and to spread it to the inner parts of the body. It allows the impacts of the massage to spread through the vascular neural structures in the deep layers. Fat secretion excreted from exocrine glands through the application of massages and perspiration increase.

The skin softens as sebaceous glans excrete more sebum. Its felixbility and healthy appearence enhance. Arterioles and capillaries expand and increase the amount of blood and ensure more blood to spring to the skin. With this excessive blood raid, functions of the skin increase. Effects of the massage on muscles, joints, ligaments in the vicinity, bones, digestion and the skin are evident.

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