Nancy Hagenmayer Lopez
New York State Licensed Massage Therapist

~ In Practice since 1991 ~

Let's keep it real basic.

Picture a soapy sponge. Put it in a sink of clean water. Push down on it, the soap squeezes out. When your hand is taken off, clean water is sucked in. Do this a number of times and eventually you have a clean sponge.

Now let's look at muscle. I don't care what kind of athlete you happen to be, competitive, recreational, or industrial, if you're alive, you're using muscles. Various toxins accumulate. Muscles tighten restricting blood flow. This, in turn, causes aches and pains, or worse yet, injury.

Massage releases the build up in tissues, much like pressing on the sponge. The pressure on the muscle, moves the toxins out, and when the pressure is released, fresh blood moves in.

With the toxic dams removed, blood can flow freely. With the fullest flow of blood available, many muscle 'by products,' such as Lactic Acid and so on, are whisked away in the newly opened river. This free flow allows fresh nutrients and oxygen-rich blood to flood the area. This is necessary for the muscle to be at its fullest potential.