There are many Benefits of Massage which Massage has one of its most important effects on the circulatory system. The flow of the blood and lymph is improved both in quantity and speed. And a rapid flow whether in a river, blood vessel or lymphatic, prevents the deposit of particles held in suspension. A free circulation overcomes the influence of noxious substances. As an illustration of this, laborers are able to do active work in an open sewer near which professional men cannot live without becoming sick. In the sewer the oxygen which would keep off the bad effects of the effluvia cannot be increased, but the increased rapidity of circulation, due to muscular work, keeps the laborers in health.
The contraction and relaxation of the voluntary muscles assist venous return. When for any reason, these no longer occur, the venous flow languishes and with it, that in the arteries. In such a case massage is valuable to empty the veins and lymphatics by direct centripetal pressure. As has been well said by Kleen, the action is one of a combined force and suction pump. The effect upon the flow in the veins, in their superficial situation, is direct, and it is for this reason that the strokes of massage are given always toward the heart. Some claim that the effect by direct pressure upon the arterial flow is nothing because the arteries are too deeply placed to feel the stroke and because their elastic walls render them less susceptible to pressure than the thinner-walled veins.
Others claim that upon the more superficially placed of the arteries massage holds up the flow, only to cause a subsequent rapid rush of arterial blood as soon as the pressure is released, such that the blood stream may be three times as rapid. Whether the arterial flow is effected by direct pressure or not, it is certain that
the hands of the masseur, as they press upon the veins, act as pe-ripheral propelling hearts which cooperate with the heart itself, at the center and lessen its work.
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