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Strengthen Your Core
Strengthening your core muscles helps out with every day, ordinary activities as well as organized sports. The stronger your core, the better you’ll feel after exertion. If you experience stiffness or soreness, a good neuromuscular massage will have you feeling better in no time.
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Massage is Good for Myasthenia Gravis
Because massage increases blood flow to the tissues, and help to repair injury and restore range of motion, it has been used successfully with many different movement disorders.
Myasthenia Gravis is caused by the body’s immune system attacking the receptors where the muscles and nerves connect. This makes it difficult for the muscles to contract and leads to fatigue and weakness. Neuromuscular massage can help increase blood flow to the muscles and is also helpful in stress reduction. Stress is a common complaint of MG patients due to their inability to plan for when their muscle weakness will happen or for how long.
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Massage is Good for Huntington’s Disease
Because massage increases blood flow to the tissues, and help to repair injury and restore range of motion, it has been used successfully with many different movement disorders.
Huntingtons is a hereditary degenerative brain disorder that causes involuntary movements and slowly disminishes the person’s ability to walk and move effectively. While there is no cure for Huntington’s Disease, massage can help relieve muscle rigidity or loss of range of motion caused by the repetitiveness of the involuntary movements.
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Massage is Good for Dystonia
Although not as common as Parkinsons, dystonia has some of the same symptoms including involuntary muscle contractions that can occur in any part of the body including an entire muscle group such as the quads, or in small muscle groups such as the eyelids, or vocal cords. Those patients experiencing dystonia in the core and extremity muscles can achieve great relief of their symptoms with good neuromuscular massage.
Because massage increases blood flow to the tissues, and help to repair injury and restore range of motion, it has been used successfully with many different movement disorders.
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Massage is Good for Parkinson’s Disease
Because massage increases blood flow to the tissues, and help to repair injury and restore range of motion, it has been used successfully with many different movement disorders.
Parkinsons is a neurological movement disorder that is characterized by tremors, muscle rigidity, akinesia (the temporary inability to move), dyskinesia (the inability to conduct specific voluntary movements at will) and loss of postural reflexes. One of the results of Parkinsons disease are increasing stiffness and tremors leading to muscle exhaustion similar to what athletes experience when training at full effort. The available oxygen in the muscle is insufficient for the work load demanded of them. Because Parkinsons Disease doesn’t offer the muscles a period of rest after use, massage can help to restore the blood flow, and therefore the oxygen available to those muscles. Although studies are ongoing, massage is also thought to be helpful in increasing distribution of the L-dopa drugs often used to treat Parkinsons.
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Stretching and Flexibility Go Hand in Hand
Stretching before and after exercise, as well as on a regular basis during periods of inactivity will give you better posture, and fewer aches and pains.
Stretching increases blood flow and circulation to your muscles, but it also gives your brain a boost according to wellness experts, often leaving those who stretch feeling cheerier.
Periods of inactivity such as sitting are hard on your glutes and hip flexors, so standing up to stretch can keep them limber and less prone to injury when you do exercise.
You need a healthy, flexible back for nearly every type of activity, so giving your back a good stretch can prevent injury.
One of the best benefits of stretching is better balance. Especially for older people, stretching can bring your body back into balance which can help prevent falls.
If, after stretching, you are still feeling tight, sore, or your range of motion isn’t what it should be, come in for a good neuromuscular massage. Massage reduces pain and increases range of motion.
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10 Reasons to Juice #10
Everything You Need
When you juice, you get everything you need at once–all the nutrients found in fruits and vegetables. This means natural nutrients in natural proportions, not added sugars from commercially-available juices.
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10 Reasons to Juice #9
Preventing Disease
Many studies point out that a diet high in fruits and vegetables can prevent disease. For many people getting 5 servings of fruits and vegetables a day is much easier by drinking juice.
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10 Reasons to Juice #7
Enzymes
Fruit and vegetable juices provide a convenient source of enzymes. Enzymes spark the essential chemical reactions for digesting food, stimulating the brain, providing cellular energy, and for repairing tissue from inflammation or other damage.
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