{"id":797,"date":"2018-10-17T18:55:15","date_gmt":"2018-10-17T18:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lavida.wpengine.com\/?post_type=blog&p=797"},"modified":"2018-10-17T18:55:15","modified_gmt":"2018-10-17T18:55:15","slug":"benefits-of-drinking-water-before-and-after-a-session","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lavidamassageraleighnc.com\/benefits-of-drinking-water-before-and-after-a-session\/","title":{"rendered":"Benefits of Drinking Water Before and After a Session"},"content":{"rendered":"

Benefits of Drinking Water Before and After a Session:<\/h2>\n

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Keeping hydrated before and after a massage session is important for maintaining proper blood flow and healthy muscle tissue. Would you like to know why? This tissue contains tiny blood vessels (capillaries) that transfer oxygen and nutrients through our veins while releasing and filtering Lactic acid away from healthy tissue. To help you visualize, our muscles are like a fresh Tenderloin steak when healthy: supple and spongy.<\/p>\n

When unhealthy, muscles are like a piece of dried out hard salami: tight and tough. This tissue doesn\u2019t allow good blood flow and sluggish drainage restricts easy movement, causing stiffness. When this happens, we blame the most common conditions all of us are very familiar with: tension from stress, poor posture, injury and overuse. All of these factors lead to the development of a tight, tough, and gristly coating in the muscle and connective tissue. If this condition is not relieved, it can cause deep tissue massage to be painful. Not only does pain occur during the massage, but drainage is also affected and may lead to infection and illness. Other symptoms may also develop, such as high blood pressure, due to lack of circulation \u2013 like a kinked up hose restricting water flow.<\/p>\n

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So what does all of this have to do with drinking water before and after a massage?<\/p>\n

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Here is your answer: LaVida Massage therapists are professionally trained to find these tight \u201csick\u201d muscle areas and use specific modalities and techniques to get blood flowing properly to the \u201csick\u201d muscles again. As they work on relaxing your muscles, blood begins delivering oxygen and fluids to your muscle tissue. Any trace of water in your muscles is removed from your blood stream causing dehydration. While this is happening, your muscles release the built up Lactic acid into your blood stream. Some individuals may experience nausea or lightheadedness from these simultaneous impacts (dehydration and lactic acid release).<\/p>\n

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By drinking water regularly, before and after a therapeutic massage session, you:<\/p>\n