How Your Body Works
Is Massage Really Beneficial?
If you are an average size adult, you have about 3,000 square inches of skin. Since you were born, the surface area of your body increased seven times. Your skin is the largest external organ. The skin you now have is not the same skin you had a month ago. Every 24 to 30 days, you completely replace the top layer of your epidermis. It contains 41% of the total available water in the body and one-third of all the circulating blood.
One square inch of skin, (about the size of a quarter), contains…
- 20 million nerves
- 15 feet of blood vessels
- 72 feet of nerves
- 19,000 sensory cells at the end of nerve fibers
- 1,300 nerve ending that record pain
- 77 structures that are sensitive to heat
- 13 sensory structures for cold
- 160 structures that inform us that we are being touched
- 650 sweat glands, on average
- 95 sebaceous or oil glands
The answer to the above question is “YES”!
So, not only are you…
- Increasing circulation
- Easing muscle pain & stiffness and relaxing muscles
- Lowering blood pressure
- Improving range of motion
- Reducing and/or eliminating headaches
- Increasing endorphins (Nature’s natural pain killers)
But you are also receiving - Body moisturizing & exfoliating!
Massage heals by nurturing the body’s talent for healing by triggering and supporting the body’s own healing response. And, it just feels great!
Filed under: Massage on March 11th, 2008
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