Addiction Recovery
Massage Used to Aid in Addiction Therapy
Substance addiction recovery can be very difficult. Addiction treatment helps make that struggle less difficult. Addiction therapy can be coupled with massage therapy to help ease patients through withdrawal symptoms.
Billions of dollars are spent each year in addiction treatment. This includes the cost medial care, crime, social services, and treatment programs. Natural therapies that can help make addiction therapy programs more successful. Increased success in addiction therapy would save the country money and save the lifes of many people.
Massage can help ease the symptoms of people recovering from addiction.
When you're going through the withdrawal process your dopamine levels are lower than the average person. The drugs used to make you feel good mess up your biochemistry. Your brain stops producing these chemicals and the drug takes over. This makes you dependent on drugs to feel good.
Massage helps increase the levels of dopamine in the body while decreasing the amount of stress the body feels. This can be critical for someone going through withdrawal. Massage therapy helps prevent relapses.
Massage also helps with detoxification. Massage increases the circulation of blood and lymph. This helps the body flush out the toxic chemicals left over from drug abuse more quickly.
Massage on its own cannot help someone completely recover from addiction, but combined with the right other therapies, it can made the recovery process a easier.
