Latest Massage Therapy Research

Latest Research

Top benefits of Therapeutic MASSAGE

Relieve Stress and Boost Your Health with Therapeutic Massage at A Noticed Difference

Did you know that clinical research in Massage Therapy estimates up to 90% of illnesses are linked to stress?

That’s a powerful reminder of just how damaging chronic stress can be—both physically and mentally. High stress levels accelerate aging, weaken the immune system, and contribute to a wide range of health issues.

At A Noticed Difference Therapeutic Massage Studio, we specialize in stress relief and soft tissue pain management through customized Therapeutic Massage sessions. Massage Therapy isn’t just a luxury—it’s a proven wellness tool that supports your body’s natural ability to heal and recover.

By incorporating regular massage into your wellness routine, you can effectively reduce stress, improve circulation, release chronic tension, and experience so much more joy in your daily life!

Discover how our evidence-based massage techniques can help you feel better, live pain-free, and restore balance to your daily life. Click the links below to learn more:

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Wellness Outcomes Tailored Towards you!

Ask yourself this: Which of the following outcomes would make the biggest difference in your life—and are you ready to experience them?

Latest Massage Therapy Research has shown to:
Alleviate low-back pain and improve range of motion
Bring a greater proprioceptive awareness to one's body
Ease medication dependence
Help athletes of any level prepare for, and recover from, strenuous workouts
More joint flexibility for ease of movement
Lessen depression and anxiety
Enhance your sleep quality and duration
Pump oxygen and nutrients into tissues and vital organs, by improving circulation
Eliminate post-surgery adhesions and swelling
Relax and soften injured, tired, and overused muscles
Release endorphins—amino acids that work as the body’s natural painkiller
Relieve chronic migraine pain

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Massage and Movement Evidence

Can mobilizations and soft tissue release (aka-massage) actually help with chronic low back pain?

Yes, they can!

Not only does having your muscles massaged and manipulated with massage and manual therapy feels great! But, adding in a component of gentle movement has shown to significantly improve your range of motion, reduce your pain sensations, and improve the pliability of your soft tissues!

Therefore, greater ease of movement is possible and a huge confidence boost that you don’t have to live in pain all the time! Whoo hooo!!! Who’s ready to get their muscles massaged at a whole new level and not have back pain or neck pain constantly anymore?

Learn more about how the benefits of massage can help you live a pain free and stress free life at the link below!

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Moving Freely is possible

The Effects of Movement in Aging Adults

As we age, everything in life feels harder than it needs to be at times. Additionally, creating a higher compensatory state of reduced movement and increased levels of pain throughout your body.

But what if you could move in a way that was a little easier to work your way out of pain?

We strongly encourage all clients to engage in some form of physical movement daily. Specifically, we recommend Pilates for its isometric and low impact properties to ones joints and overall strengthening throughout ones body.

Research has shown that those individuals in an aging population that engage in Pilates, in an in person group setting, not only improved their physical strength but improved their quality of life!

With movement being a vital part of life for each client, we encourage every client to take advantage of the combined Therapeutic effects of Massage Therapy and the corresponding movement practices. In summary, you can experience living life to your fullest!

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Do the chronic headaches suck all the fun out of your day?

Massage Therapy and Frequency of Chronic Tension Headaches:

Are you stuck at a computer all day?

Our bodies develop intense muscular tension that is involved with sitting at a computer all day. Additionally, creating a pain that is usually located at the base of the neck and/or across the top of the shoulders.

There is evidence that explains sustained static muscular contraction causes the muscle to deplete itself of local nutrients, which create highly tender spots in the muscle tissue, trigger points.

Over a period, these contracted trigger points are thought to be an underlying cause of tension headaches.

A study measuring massage therapy treatment of the neck and shoulder muscles to reduce chronic tension headaches, demonstrated, “…muscle-specific massage therapy technique…has the potential to be a functional, non-pharmacological intervention for reducing the incidence of chronic tension headache.”

Read more about this exact study at the link below!

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Experiencing life less stressed and less pained is within reach!

Benefits of Massage-Myofascial Release Therapy on Pain, Anxiety, Quality of Sleep, Depression, and Quality of Life in Patients with Fibromyalgia

If you suffer from fibromyalgia you are aware of the intense overall muscle pain! The unending diagnoses with limited relief, and the always present fatigue.

In short, myofascial release (MFR) has been shown to significantly improve the symptoms associated with fibromyalgia. Myofascial release targets the softening of the fascia around the muscles.

So, when you move, the fascia must move, so the muscle can move, and so on…this is how the soft tissue works.

However, fascial entrapments, where the fascia is stuck and won’t move, occur for a multitude of reasons. These fascial entrapment patterns cause that area in the body to stop receiving appropriate stimuli and create a dysfunctional process called “densification,”. This process has been shown in the tissue where densification occurs, causing limited movement, fat accumulation, and an altered chemical state of the tissue.

However, with MFR, you can manage your symptoms with massage so that you can feel better, move easier, and live a more pain-free life.

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