Everything You Need to Know About the Benefits of Pregnancy Massage

What Is A Pregnancy Massage?

A pregnancy massage is a special form of massage therapy for women in their second and third trimesters of pregnancy. Pregnancy massages can be beneficial for women as they experience changes to the body during pregnancy, helping to relieve tension and discomfort in the shoulders, neck, and back.

There are various benefits of pregnancy massage from physical to mental health benefits and even improving the quality of your sleep. Research shows that massage during pregnancy reduces anxiety, improves sleep and mood and decreases back pain amongst those who received a massage twice a week for five weeks. 

Let’s take a closer look at some of the benefits of pregnancy massage:

• Alleviates stress on weight-bearing joints

• Increases blood circulation

• Improves lower and upper back pain and stiffness, tension and knots

• Relieves headaches

• Improves sciatica (numbness, tingling or weakness of the legs)

• Improves edema (abnormal accumulation of fluid in tissues) and joint pain

• Decreases heartburn and acid reflux

• Decreases constipation

• Improves neck, interscapular (between the shoulders), sacroiliac (between the spine and pelvis) and hip pain

• Helps relieve stress or anxiety caused by hormone changes

• Improves both the quantity and quality of sleep