Summer time is a great time of year to enjoy the sun’s rays, the beautiful beaches and the amazing scenery. It’s also the time of year where working outdoors and exercising are extremely common. While this may be enjoyable, there’s no denying that this may leave you with sore muscles and aches that don’t go away easily. The pain may also prevent you from continuing to enjoy activities outside in the gorgeous weather. Luckily, massages have been shown to have several benefits in helping those with sore muscles. Getting a Manhattan Swedish massage therapy treatment at Aura Wellness Spa can help ease any discomfort you are experiencing with your muscles.

Reduce Inflammation

After a strenuous workout, the muscle tissue becomes inflamed for a prolonged period of time. This prolongs feelings of pain and discomfort that can prevent you from resuming work, exercising and even normal activities. Reducing the inflammation helps quickly reduce the pain and allows people to resume their normal activities in a comfortable fashion faster.

This is achieved by the motions of the massage prompting the genes within your body that are meant to reduce inflammation to become active, particularly in the affected areas.

Improve Muscle Repair and Growth

In addition to activating genes to reduce inflammation, Swedish massages also promote the production of mitochondria, which helps improve oxygen efficiency in your body’s cells. This helps the muscles repair themselves after damage or excessive exercise, and it also helps them grow faster and stronger. This helps reduce pain after strenuous exercise and helps prevent future instances of sore muscles and injury while exercising in the future.

Improve Circulation

Poor circulation can increase and prolong pain in the muscles as well as inflammation. This is due to a buildup of toxins in the blood that only irritate the muscle tissue and hinder the healing process. Swedish massage helps dilate the blood vessels, which improves circulation and helps the body quickly rid itself of those toxins.

Relax

One of the biggest benefits to Swedish massage in terms of improving sore muscles is that it is wonderful for relaxation. Relaxation is not just beneficial to reducing stress. It’s also beneficial in helping reduce tension in tight muscles, which is what contributes to a lot of muscle pain. Relaxation also helps muscle tissue recover and reduce pain from an injury.

Call a trained New York City Therapist at Aura Spa

The science behind the benefits of Swedish massage therapy for sore muscles is still being explored, but it can’t be denied that there is a prominent link between massages, faster recovery and less pain in sore muscles. If you have sore muscles for any reason and want to get a massage, call (212) 695-9559 to schedule one of our relaxing and rejuvenating New York City Korean massage treatments today.