During pregnancy women go through a number of hormonal, physical, emotional changes. Maternity Massage is a special type of massage devised taking into consideration special needs of pregnant women. Maternity massage helps reduce stress, anxiety, aches, pains, swelling, etc. Thus, it helps women cope better with changes and discomforts associated with pregnancy.
Massage Therapy For Muscles And Joint Pain
Pains and discomfort occur to women during pregnancy. Blood flow to hands and legs becomes sluggish resulting to swelling. It’s not unusual to feel muscle and joint pains too. According to pregnancy therapeutic massage experts, pregnant women are exposed to a great number of discomforts, pains, and changes that are unique to the pregnant state.
In addition, these changes involve a major part of their body if not the entire body – from the head to the neck, the hands and feet, the hips, legs, sheen, and many, many more. Understanding all that the pregnant woman is going through in terms of her physical state is significant to be able to recommend the right and appropriate relief or solution for all these.
Massage For Emotional Stress During Pregnancy
A pregnant woman commonly feels stressed – disturbed, worried, or anxious. She will feel tense about a lot of things about the pregnancy’”childbirth and the how the baby is going to be, motherhood and if she’s going to be a good mom, her job, her health, or her relationship with the husband.
Benefits Of Prenatal Massage Therapy
Maternity massage provides a lot of emotional, physical benefits and also makes pregnant women feel truly cared for. Massage during pregnancy helps relieve tension and makes you feel more relaxed and calm.
Benefits of maternity massage include:
- Relieves headaches, stiff neck, backaches.
- Reduced strain of weight-bearing joints.
- Relieves muscle cramps, spasms, pains, swelling.
- Reduces stress, anxiety, depression, fatigue.
- Improves blood circulation, lymph circulation.
- Strengthens immune system.
- Improves sleeping pattern.
- Improves flexibility of muscles.
- Stabilizes hormone levels.
- Provides general sense of well being.