Thai massage, also known as Thai yoga massage, is a traditional healing practice that originated in Thailand. It offers numerous benefits for both the body and mind. These benefits include:-
- Sleep
- Immune function
- Constipation
- Anxiety
- Digestive disorders
- Nerve pain
- Postoperative care
- Scar tissue
- Soft tissue strains and injuries
- Sports injuries
- Temporomandibular joint (TMJ) disorders
Massage therapy and pain
- Back pain. More than one study has shown the effectiveness of massage therapy for back pain.
- Headache. Another type of pain, headache, also responds to massage therapy. Some studies suggest that massage therapy can improve sleep and reduce the number of migraines a person has.
- Osteoarthritis. In the first clinical trial looking at the effectiveness of Swedish massage for kneeosteoarthritis, participants who received a one-hour massage either one or two times a week had improvements in pain, stiffness, and function. The control group had no such change.
- Fibromyalgia. Studies show that over the course of 5 weeks, massage therapy can improve symptoms such as pain, anxiety, and depression.
