Why Do You Have to Drink Water After a Massage?

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The Scientist: Michele Naumann Carlstrom, licensed massage therapist at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York

The Answer: If you’ve ever gotten a massage, whether at a spa, a sports medicine facility, or a kiosk at the airport, chances are that your masseuse instructed you to drink a lot of water when you got home (or wherever your travels may have taken you). The reasons for this are twofold.

First off, massages are dehydrating. Kneading and working muscle gets fluid pumping out of the soft tissue and into your circulatory system, where it heads toward your kidneys. That’s why many people have to pee right after a massage. You have to replenish all that lost water—by drinking more.

Then there’s the issue of metabolic waste, which is produced by muscles in the course of everyday function. When your muscles are tight or you’ve got a major knot, it constricts circulation in those areas, inhibiting the body’s ability to flush out this waste. And, since tight muscles are probably what prompted you to make a massage appointment in the first place, chances are you’ve got some compromised circulation happening. Massage relaxes the tension, releasing the circulatory pathways and allowing nitrogenous metabolic waste to dump into the system. Drinking provides your kidneys with the water they need to effectively eliminate the newly liberated waste.

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Massage for Mental Health

New research recently published in clinical journals help substantiate the mental health benefits of massage therapy.

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New research recently published in clinical journals help substantiate the mental health benefits of massage therapy, according to a official statement from the American Massage Therapy Association (AMTA).

Research published in the April 2013 issue of The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine found that massage therapy could help reduce symptoms of depression for those with HIV disease. The eight-week study reportedly found massage significantly reduced the severity of depression starting at week four and continuing through weeks six and eight. The ATMA believes the study shows that regular therapeutic massage could be a benefit for those with HIV that are suffering from depression.

Cancer patients who received a back massage during chemotherapy experienced lessened anxiety and fatigue, according to a study published in the September 2013 issue of Applied Nursing Research. The ATMA says this study is an example of how massage therapy could benefit patients as a regular part of a cancer treatment plan.

In addition to the above studies, the AMTA conducted its annual consumer survey in August and found that massage therapy is increasingly finding a place in Americans’ health and wellness regimens. Finding indicated that 88% of respondents believe massage is beneficial to overall health and wellness. That same percentage believe massage can be effective in reducing pain, and 75% of those surveyed said their primary reason for getting a massage was either medical (43%) or stress-related (32%). More than half of respondents stated that it was their doctor who gave them the recommendation to get a massage.

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