Touch is a basic human need that improves all aspects of health. Regular, consistent massage therapy can reduce muscle tension and mental stress, increase mental clarity and physical performance, prevent injury, and reduce the symptoms of anxiety and depression by easing the nervous system. Massage therapy is powerful health care at its most enjoyable.
“No singular therapeutic agent can be compared in efficiency with the familiar but perfect tool – the human hand.
It is pre-eminently the instrument of the artist in all departments. The hand is an ever present agent of skill. It is capable of infinite adaptation.
If half as much research had been expended on the principles governing manual treatment as upon pharmacology, the hand would be esteemed today on par with drugs in acceptability and power.”
-J. Madison Taylor M.D. 1908