Post-Natal Massage
Benefits of Post-natal Massage
Using post-natal massage therapy in your post-natal care can effectively help you manage some common discomforts associated with postpartum symptoms.
- Strengthens abdominal muscles
- Relieves cramping or soreness
- Enables scar healing
- Targets Back, Neck and Shoulder Pain
- Helps re-establish pelvic structural alignment
How Post-Natal Massage Strengthens Abdominal Muscles: If you’re experiencing discomfort when you attempt to sit up, massage therapy can help strength your abdominal muscles, which may be weak after child birth.
How Post-Natal Massage Relieves Cramping and Soreness: You may experience mild to severe cramping as the site where the placenta was attached within your uterus heals. Your pelvic floor may be sore from an episiotomy or tearing. Your intestinal tract and urinary bladder have to reposition themselves after being pushed aside to make room for your growing baby.
How Post-Natal Massage Enables Scar Healing: You may have built up scar tissue that needs to be broken down so that it can realign more naturally.
How Post-Natal Massage Helps Back, Neck and Shoulder Pain: If you are breastfeeding, you may have back, neck and shoulder pain, or other pain related to changes in posture and/or weight.
How Post-Natal Massage Helps Re-Establish Pelvic Structural Alignment: To allow the proper amount of room in the birth canal for your baby to pass through, hormones are released to help ‘soften’ the pelvic bones so that they can easily shift. Massage therapy can help the process in which your pelvic struction realigns itself.