Massage and Its Health Benefits to Our Body

I like hiking and camping in the tropical rainforest for days. While traveling in the jungle, I and my friends usually walk up the slopes and down the ravines for around 5 hours per day. When I return home, I usually experience tensions and pains all my body. I need massage to relieve muscular spasm and tension. I often experience muscle pains after hiking in the rainforest because I overuse and stress my muscles particularly in the leg areas.
Release of muscle tension
When pressure is applied on certain area of my legs that suffer from pain, the nerve system will activate my body or muscle to release the tension.
The Warming of hard tissue in the pained muscles
When I rub my leg muscle that suffers from tension, I transfer heat from my palm to the tissue of the muscle. The transfer of heat is usually called thermodynamic effect. Such effect will soften my muscle tissue that has been tight and hard.
Stimulate local nerves
When I rub and press my stressed muscle, the local nerves will be stimulated or soothed. They will release the stress or contractions and make the muscles in my leg relax or soft again.
This is a simple therapy that I usually apply on my legs after spending several days hiking and camping in the jungle. So, I believe that massage can give positive implications to our health, well-being and even longevity.

Massage in Sports

For hundreds of years athletes have known the importance of massage in maintaining and improving their performance. After an exercise or real competition, a football player or a runner will usually be handled by a massage therapist to release tensions in his or her muscles.