Please note: Our Online Booking tool is currently down, please contact us on to arrange your appointment and we will honour any online booking discount. Stress is a physical response that affects the way you feel, think and how your body works. Stress is a normal response to events that make you feel threatened or upset. The body's defence process is called fight or flight and is a common reaction to stress. Stress is caused by a release of stress hormones in the body including adrenaline and cortisol.
When the body is stressed, muscles tense up. An increase of muscle tension is a reflex reaction to stress, the body's way of guarding against injury or pain.
Stress becomes a physical and mental effect that leads to chronic pain in the body. Our massage therapists working at Physio. There are many types of massage that can be used to help relieve stress. The types of massage used for stress are:. Therapeutic Massage. Remedial Massage. Swedish Massage. Deep Tissue Massage. Mechanical Massage. Massage can help stress for many circumstances. The circumstances that massage can help for stress include:.
Receiving a massage for stress can help relieve chronic pain. Stress can lead to many physical problems. Stress and pain can be linked and create a vicious cycle that leads to chronic conditions.
Many types of massage can help break the cycle and relieve physical symptoms of stress and pain. Massage is able to treat muscles and other soft tissues by increasing temperature, blood circulation and delaying pain receptors. Massage interrupts pain signals causing chronic pain so that it is not registered in the brain.
