If people take lightly by the wrist, then it will slow down the heart rate and lower blood pressure.
In children and adolescents, hospitalized for mental disorders, significantly reduced excitability, and there were positive changes in the perception of reality, If it daily for a short time to rub her back slightly.
Blockage of an artery in rabbits, receiving cholesterol-rich foods, if they regularly gently stroking, observed in 60% are less common, than in rabbits, receiving the same food, but deprived of affection.
In rats, which for the first 3 weeks of daily life were holding on 15 minute, degeneration of brain cells and memory loss, due to aging, were expressed to a lesser extent, than rats, whose hands are not taken.
40 premature infants were divided into two equal groups. In one group of children every day gently stroked over 45 minute, and in the other – no. After 10 days, children in the first group weighed on 47% more, than in the second, although both, and others received the same number of calories.
Intramuscular temperature after the massage increases on average by 2,7 degrees. Muscle blood flow increases 4,2 before 6,3 ml / minute. Improving skin and intramuscular temperature, as well as the acceleration of muscle blood flow after the massage can be considered physiologically favorable factor for the athlete or patient, as this leads to an active tissue oxygen saturation, and thus, helps create comfort in the tissues and prevention of injuries.
Science has long known fact, that massage increases urination. Moreover, increased urination, and an increasing amount of nitrogen excreted: go to, one day after a massage.
If we make a massage immediately after exercise, a selection of nitrogenous substances to increase by 15%. In addition, conducted after the muscle work is to speed up the selection of lactic acid from the body.
Massage, conducted before physical activity, improves gas exchange 10-20%, and after exercise - on 96-135%.
These examples show that, that massage, conducted after exercise, promotes more rapid leakage reduction processes in the body. The recovery process is faster, if before the massage conduct heat applications (use of paraffin, mud or hot tubs). The reason is, that are formed in the process of massage products of protein, that, soaked in blood, create the effect of, like effects proteotherapy. In addition, massage, in contrast to the exercise, does not lead to an overabundance of lactic acid in the body, so, acid-base balance in the blood is not broken.
People, not engaged in manual labor, after heavy muscular work causes pain in the muscles, due to the high concentration of lactic acid. The massage helps to excrete excess fluid and remove painful realities.