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October 7, 2009
By Susan Callahan, Health Editor and Featured Columnist
If you have high blood pressure that is resistant to treatment from
medicines and dietary changes, take heart. You have a new ally in the
fight against high blood pressure. And that ally is an old friend.
Massage. That's right, therapeutic massage is emerging as an effective
complementary strategy for the treatment of high blood pressure.
Although Americans suffer from some of the highest rates of blood
pressure in the world, we do not as a whole take advanatge of
therapeutic massage.
And that's not good for our health, it turns out. Studies from
universities around the world have found that massage can lower
blood pressure. However, not all types of massage are equally
effective in lowering blood pressure.
Here are the best types of massage to lower your blood pressure,
based on current research:
1. Facial Massage. Massaging your face is one of the best ways to
quickly lower blood pressure. A 2007 study by London South Bank
University found that people who had a 20 minute facial massage
experienced a 8.5 point immediate drop in their systolic (top number)
blood pressure. There's someting special about face massage when it
comes to your blood pressure. Other types of massage simply did not
produce as dramatic a drop. For example, the same study found that
massaging your feet only produces a 1 point drop in blood pressure.
2. Deep Tissue Massage. Compared with other massage techniques,
such as lymph massage, deep tisue massage is significantly more
effective in reducing blood pressure. A 2008 study by Louisiana State
University Health Sciences Center analyzed the systolic (top number),
diatolic (bottom number) and average heart rates of 263 volunteers
after they had undergone a 45 to 60 minute deep tissue massage.
The results were startling. Systolic (top number) blood pressure
droped an average of 10.4 points. Diastolic (bottom number) blood
pressure dropped an average of 5.4 points. Moreover, average heart
rates dropped 10.8 beats per minute.
3. Myofascial Trigger Points. Massage applied to so-called "myofscial
trigger points" reduces your heart rate and blood pressure. First,
what are myofascial trigger points. A 2008 study from Albany Medical
Center defined a myosfcial trigger point as " a hyperirritable spot,
usually within a taut band of skeletal muscle, which is painful on
compression and can give rise to characteristic referred pain, motor
dysfunction, and autonomic phenomena".
In other words, they are your hot spots. The spots that hurt in your
back and shoulders, arms, wherever.
Massaging your painful myofascial trigger points can reduce blood
pressure, heart rate and induce overall relaxation, according to a
2002 study from Wirral Metropolitan College in the UK. The study eof
30 healthy males and females found that such massage reduced
systolic blood pressure by 20%, diastolic blood pressure by 10% and
heart rate by 10%.
As a bonus, myofascial trigger-point massage significantly improved
the subjects self-assessment of their emotional state and muscle
tension.
I'm a convert. I can personally report that since I have made
twice-monthly deep tussue massages a part of my health routine, I
have experienced deeper and more relaxed sleep, lower blood
pressure and lower heart rate. Massage is essential to maintaining
your good health. It's not a luxury. It's a necessity.
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