Raintree Medical & Chiropractic Center combines a primary care clinic with chiropractic care and licensed massage therapy into one complete care facility, conveniently located in Lee’s Summit. Therapeutic massage is an excellent complement to primary care and chiropractic care for many types of conditions. Massage therapy helps relieve tension and inflammation in the body’s soft tissues, which can relieve pain, fatigue, sleep disorders, anxiety, and depression, and it can help the patient’s body derive more benefits from chiropractic adjustments.
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- High Blood Pressure – Using therapeutic massage to reduce inflammation and stress levels also helps to lower your blood pressure, and ongoing massage therapy can produce a lasting drop in both systolic and diastolic blood pressure numbers. Massage can also help your circulatory system and your lymphatic system perform better, and massage can help lymph nodes to drain almost immediately, which can also alleviate pain. Lowering blood pressure and reducing stress can help eliminate certain types of headaches, and lift the general not-right feeling that high blood pressure causes in many sufferers.
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- TMJ Syndrome – Temporomandibular Joint Syndrome (TMJ) is a disorder in your jaw joint which can cause pain in the face or ear area, earaches, unexplained pain behind the eyes, and headaches that mimic migraines. In some patients, the jaw will momentarily lock or pop out of place, or there may be a clicking sound or popping when moving the jaw. TMJ is caused by severe muscle tension in the jaw, often from clenching or grinding your teeth while you sleep, combined with stress and continued muscle-clenching during waking hours. Massage therapy can help relax the mandible and masseter muscles that operate the jaw, reduce swelling in the lymph nodes located near the jaw “hinge,” and by overall relaxation, which may help prevent you clenching your jaw and grinding your teeth in the first place.
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- Chronic Pain – There are numerous causes of chronic pain, and many of those can be helped or eliminated with therapeutic massage. Headaches, neck and back pain are common types of pain that can often be relieved using massage to relax the muscles and mechanically release tissues that have been inflamed. In some cases, muscle tension can cause pinched nerves and in other cases, that tension results in postural dysfunction which causes pain as the body is pulled out of proper alignment.
Massage Therapy Supports Chiropractic Care and Primary Care
By helping the body relax and return to its correct alignment, therapeutic massage helps you heal faster and helps the body make the best use of the treatments provided by your chiropractor and primary care providers. At Raintree Medical and Chiropractic Center, we offer all of these types of treatment in one place, so you have access to everything you need for comprehensive health and wellness care. Contact us for an appointment or to learn more about how massage therapy can help patients heal more quickly and return to the pain-free living.