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1. How Massage Therapy Can
Relieve Work Stress

2. Introduction
• Anyone who has ever had a job in any industry knows a
little something about work-related stress. Some types
of jobs are more prone to stress than others, but all will
experience it from time to time.

3. Introduction
• Whether you’re the vice president of a big
company, a cashier in that same company or the
person who cleans the floors once everyone goes
home, stress is a factor. Sometimes the stress is
mental and sometimes it is physical, but you
must find a way to ease it or you may find
yourself in a serious predicament.

4. Introduction
• One solution that more and more people seem to turn to
for work stress is massage therapy. When you get into
the details, it almost seems as if massage therapy was
made for work stress.

5. Common Work Stress Symptoms
• According to the Mayo Clinic, stress can have serious
effects on your body, your mood and your behaviour.
The stresses that you experience in the workplace may
result in:
▫ Muscle tension and pain ▫ Sleep disruptions
▫ Headaches ▫ Anxiety
▫ Chest pains ▫ Depression
▫ Upset stomach ▫ Restlessness
▫ Loss of libido ▫ Anger
▫ Fatigue ▫ Inability to focus

6. What Is Massage Therapy?
• According to the Registered
Massage Therapist’s Association
of Ontario, “massage therapy is a
comprehensive intervention
involving a range of techniques to
manipulate the soft tissues and
joints of the body.”

7. What Is Massage Therapy?
• The purpose of massage therapy is to relieve pain,
rehabilitate, augment and maintain physical function.
The different techniques provide relief for many
different ailments, stemming from stress, overuse of
muscles and several chronic pain syndromes.
• The website states that between 17 and 23 percent of
Canadians have used massage therapy at some point,
and it is a generally accepted form of treatment.

8. How Stress Affects Health
• The Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety
website list several health issues that can result from too
much stress in your life. One of the things that make
work stress so serious is that we typically spend 40 or
more hours per week on the job.
• This prolonged exposure to a stressful environment can
make the health effects even worse, because your body
doesn’t get a chance to switch it off like in an immediate
danger “fight or flight” type of situation.

9. How Stress Affects Health
• Your body has a pre-programmed response to stress that is
often referred to as the “Generalized Stress Response”. The
effects on your body include:
▫ Increased blood pressure
▫ Increased fatty acids and cholesterol in the blood
▫ Faster heartbeat and respiration
▫ Faster blood clotting
▫ Increased stomach acids
▫ Increased blood sugar production
▫ Inflammation

10. How Stress Affects Health
• When you add these kinds of effects to the
symptoms listed earlier, it’s easy to see how
prolonged exposure can result in serious health
problems.

11. Massage Therapy Treatment
• If the effects of work-related are getting to you physically or emotionally, ask your
doctor to refer you to a registered massage therapist. The Chiro Med Rehab
Centre lists the following conditions as some of the ones that are treatable by
massage therapy.
▫ Headache
▫ Neck pain
▫ Postnatal pain
▫ Low back pain
▫ Lymphatic drainage
▫ Repetitive stress injuries
▫ Shoulder pain
▫ Stress

12. Massage Therapy Treatment
• As you can see, several of the symptoms and effects
produced by stress in the workplace are the exact same
ones that massage therapy can treat effectively. Some
work benefits even allow for a certain amount for
massage therapy on a yearly basis.
• Check with your benefits, check with your doctor, and go
see a massage therapist to help relieve the effects of your
work stress sooner rather than later.