Pregnancy Massage in London
Pregnancy massage in recent years has become increasingly popular as women have discovered the benefits and advantages of massage in pregnancy.
You will find that pregnancy can be an uncomfortable and stressful affair and any advantage to making this experience easier to navigate should be thoroughly considered if you can help reduce stress, and pain or even just make the experience more comfortable. Then professional massages should be seriously considered whether it is you who is experiencing the pregnancy or your wife/girlfriend.
Advantages of Massage
Massage treatments have many benefits for the body, improved blood flow and circulation, it helps release stress stored in the muscles. Massage can be helpful for pain management by loosening stiff joints and recently used muscles that aren't used often.
Massage has been proven to be effective at helping people suffering from anxiety. This is because we as people have two nervous systems, one is the sympathetic nervous system and the other is the parasympathetic nervous system.
The sympathetic nervous system is the system responsible for your fight-or-flight response. This is what we see with people suffering from anxiety disorder as this system is active.
What we see when a person with anxiety gets a massage is that the parasympathetic response has a calming effect and reduces the symptoms and stressors caused by the anxiety and has long-lasting benefits and effects and relaxes the mind and body.
Lowers Stress and Anxiety Levels
Massage, significantly pregnancy massage can greatly improve circulation and activate the parasympathetic nervous system. This slows the nervous system and as the nervous system is responsible for the running of your bodily functions it produces a relaxing effect when you feel safe and can block the body's response to stress.
This relaxing effect can reduce blood pressure, ease the stress on the muscles being massaged. This slows your heart rate once your parasympathetic nervous system takes over. Your body releases a hormone called acetylcholine, this hormone lets your body know it's safe and slows your heart rate down.
As a result of this, your body's blood pressure is reduced, in effect having far-reaching effects that would help reduce the chances of heart disease and stressors on the body.
Makes Pain Management Easier
Expectant mothers going through the early stages of pregnancy often experience sciatic pain that can become very uncomfortable, affect sleep quality and even make something simple as sitting down and relaxing near impossible.
This is so common as the pressure on the upper and lower leg muscles causes swelling due to the uterus resting on the lower back and pelvic floor. This swelling can press upon the sciatic nerve causing shooting pains and discomfort.
Pregnancy massage techniques can help by releasing tension and stress in the nearby muscles causing the swelling that is pushing on the sciatic nerve causing pain and discomfort and helping you relax
Deep tissue massage for expectant mothers can not only reduce the pain and discomfort felt but also the effect of improved sleep and ample rest which also helps with pain and discomfort.
Lowers Stress Hormones
During pregnancy, women experience a rise in stress hormones, which affects the hormones that are responsible for emotional and physical changes in the body of the mother. This can affect numerous bodily systems and being able to reduce the stress hormones such as cortisol is a benefit that can't be ignored.
Pregnancy massage is helpful in a multitude of ways, loosening joints and increasing flexibility that can help during pregnancy as well as helping your body relax. Reducing anxiety and increasing the circulation to those joints aiding in reducing pain in these areas.
The increase in endorphins and serotonin caused by the relaxation offered by the pregnancy massage in London calm and relaxes the mother and even the baby which can decrease premature birth and childbirth complications.
Our massage therapists are professionals who can use numerous massage techniques, even regular massage can help expectant mothers with the pain and discomfort they experience through the process.
We offer mobile massage services where we can come to your home. Please note the treatment includes being taken to the designated treatment room and helped (if needed) onto a massage bed and essential oils will be used to help the pregnancy massage remain comfortable and relaxing.
Reduces Joint Swelling
Oedema is the occurrence of swelling in a part of your body, it is diagnosed as a build-up of fluid in an area of your body. Oedema is commonly a concern for pregnant women as the uterus pushes on the lower trunk of your body causing a build-up of fluid in your legs, ankles and feet.
The symptoms of oedema can show as swelling and puffiness in the affected areas which is most common in the extremities such as the legs, ankles, and feet. An increase in abdominal size due to swelling and fluid build-up. There is also the possibility of stretched, shiny skin that will retain the press mark when pressed for a few seconds.
There is a grading system for oedema, which can be graded by a healthcare professional by gently pushing a finger into the affected tissue. If a dimple appears in the skin the grading system is based on how quickly the dimple goes back to normal.
This occurs when the pressure on blood vessels causes a fluid build-up in the tissue. Pregnancy massage or a full body massage stimulates the affected soft tissue and can improve the lymph system's ability to remove waste in the soft tissue and help drain the fluid build-up in the affected tissue.
Pregnancy treatments have far-reaching advantages as the reduction in fluid build-up helps reduce the swelling that can cause sciatic pain, alleviate tension and help your body release hormones that reduce your body's blood pressure.
In general, this makes pregnancy massage in London an almost integral addition to the whole pregnancy experience.