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SHOULD SENIOR CITIZENS GET A MASSAGE?


Seniors are the fastest growing age group in the country right now, and by 2020 will account for 20% of the population. This populace swing is causing healthcare businesses of all types to work overtime in order to ensure they are equipped to care for this inflow of aging citizens.

Even though we’ve discussed previously how critically important massage is for everybody, you may not appreciate just how advantageous massage can be for the most senior among us.

Massage helps to ease joint rigidity by relaxing and lengthening the tendons and muscles attached to the joint. It can also help relieve pain produced by rheumatoid arthritis. Point of fact, there are a couple types of massage that have proven in studies to ease RA pain namely myofascial release (this includes longer, continuous pressure on particular areas of the body in order to loosen-up any stiffened connective tissue).

Have you ever observed that many aged folks have a tendency to to heal more slowly, and take extended amounts of time to recuperate from pulled or strained muscles? This is for the reason that cells, as we age, become more diseased and less-able to assist in restoring, and as a result of higher levels of irritation that is common in seniors. Massage helps to speed-up healing by preventing inflammation and encouraging production of mitochondria, which aids muscles in recovery.

In 2016 the CDC estimated that approximately seven million Americans over aged 65+ experience depression. And always, mental health matters should always be brought to the attention of your doctor. And as a complement to mental healthiness, massage is a helpful and effective part of any depression treatment. Bodywork increases the levels of endorphins within the body, producing increased feelings of wellbeing. Likewise, the physical touch factor of massage brings peace and promotes comfort.

Bodywork also helps to reduce anxiety levels in those with Alzheimer’s disease? Studies conducted on patients with Alzheimer’s established that levels of pacing, combating, and restlessness were reduced instantaneously after back, foot or hand massage, as well as in the hours afterward.

Get more sleep, and work for the highest quality of sleep. For an assortment of reasons, seniors suffer from lesser sleep overall. Massage can is typically effective at cultivating the quality of sleep by boosting the natural levels serotonin, increasing melatonin, which helps control sleep natural, deep sleep cycles.

Odds are you know a senior, or you are an elder, who could benefit from getting a massage on a routine basis. If you have particular worries about the methods and techniques used for senior citizens, give us a call. We will be happy to discuss providing massages to the most senior, and justified, part of our population.

 

About the Spa: At Koffee Day Spa, we wish for our clients to be well-informed before enjoying any of our services. We hope your experience will be better once you know what to expect, have more realistic ideals and goals, as well as understand what we are focused on doing for you. If there are any other questions or concerns you may be having, please contact us at (214) 428-9696 I info@koffeedayspa.com I www.koffeedayspa.com I 1118 S. Akard St, Dallas, TX 75215

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