Drink Water After A Massage
You have just finished a therapeutic massage session or treated yourself to a relaxing massage with your favorite Massage Therapist. You are feeling relaxed, rejuvenated, and healed!
After booking your next appointment, your therapist gives you a water and gives you a few reminders.
After leaving and your post massage haze clears you think “What did my therapist tell me to do again?”
Important Things To Do After A Massage
Drink Water
Why?
Over half our body is made up of water (depends on age, gender and overall health). So it only makes sense to drink water right?
Drinking water helps to flush out toxins released from the muscles and properly re-hydrates your muscles therefore reducing muscle aches and pains after a massage.
A glass or two of H2O can also help to center your body/mind since a massage treatment can sometimes leave us feeling a bit spacey.
Stretch
Why?
Especially with a Deep Tissue Massage, your muscle fibers need to realign and be flushed of the toxins released from the muscle. Stretching can help to do this realignment and improve proper muscle recovery therefore reducing post massage muscle pain when the muscles want to tighten up again.
Hydrotherapy
(Epsom Salt Bath/Whirlpool/Infrared Sauna)
Why?
Similar to the effects of drinking water and stretching, hydrotherapy can also prolong the sense of relaxation to your body/mind and induce a deeper sleep that night while promoting healthy muscle recovery.
Eat
Why?
Massage Therapy has a big effect on circulation and stimulates digestion among other systems of the body. Keeping a small snack with you to eat after a massage will provide your body with an instant electrolyte boost (especially if you tend to feel light headed after massages)
Also, it is important to avoid any strenuous activities after a massage and avoid negative people who create stress for you!
