Is there a Massage Age Limit?
Is there a Massage Age Limit? Are you ever too old or too young to get a massage? In short: not at all! From birth, we are social creatures and reliant on touch to get our most basic needs met. It can be argued that touch is a basic need given the effect it has on the body, it is so important that without it babies suffer from failure to thrive and every person suffers from touch deprivation when they haven't been in contact with another human in a long time. Read this Psychology Today article for more on the importance of touch. So, with that in mind it can be claimed that massage can be used to benefit all ages and stages of a person's life. In this post we will discuss different life phases and how massage can be used to benefit the well-being of a person in that phase of life from before birth to old age and even end of life. Before Birth Prenatal massage has been shown to be beneficial for both mom and baby. For mom it helps her body ...