In an earlier study,6 Dr. Rapaport and 출장안마 colleagues found that twice-weekly Swedish massage increased the body’s natural oxytocin production and decreased cortisol levels 출장마사지 compared to a touch control condition. The study also found that the twice-a-week “dosage” had a “distinctly different” pattern of neuroendocrine effects, particularly on all once-weekly treatment.
A group of German researchers is proposing a hypothesis on how massage therapy may work to improve impaired interoception, which 출장안마 is an individual’s sense of the physiological condition of their body and which may be related to depression. The researchers point out that massage therapy “applies slow, rhythmic and caress-like touch that stimulates C tactile afferents in the non-glabrous skin” and that “CT mediated touch elicits responses in interoceptive brain areas (e.g., the insular cortex) that have been associated with abnormal interoceptive representations in depressed subjects.”7
“Massage therapy increases circulation and improves the balance in terms of stress hormones,” says John Rollinson, LMT, CST-D, who practices in Northampton, Massachusetts. “It also improves overall health, and when someone is trying to get through a difficult period, they need all the resources they can get.”
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