Ever consider enjoying a chair massage before you travel? Traveling and exploring the world can be a fun and exciting experience. However, traveling can also be filled with new stressors and situations that can leave you feeling very disoriented, tense, and less able to fully enjoy your experience in a new place after suffering the effects of transportation. Fortunately, chair massage has become much more widely available in airports, train stations, malls, etc.
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I have recently traveled and personally experienced a lot of the negative effects of long plane rides, jet lag, tense muscles, and overall discomfort. There is nothing that I want more than to relax and soothe my strained muscles, especially on vacation. Believe it or not, massage can be a wonderful and extremely beneficial treatment for the stresses of traveling. Car rides, train rides, bus transport, travel by boat, and plane are a few of the many modes of transportation through which travelers can voyage. All of these can include cramped spaces, long hours without moving, overall fatigue, and other discomforts. Plane rides, especially, can leave travelers feeling exhausted, stressed, and extremely jet-lagged. As travel increases and more people experience the stressful problems associated with transportation, it’s important to address the common issues of cramping, anxiety, and exhaustion when you decide to go on your next vacation, world travel, or other exciting venture.
Air travel in particular has become even more popular in recent years and can often produce some of the worst consequences, such as jet lag, disorientation, exhaustion, and tension. The first way that massage can greatly improve your condition after plane travel is by improving your sleep, especially if you are in a situation where you change time zones. The number of time zones that an individual travels through increases the length of jet lag symptoms, and considerable differences in time zones can cause travelers to experience disorientation as they try to adjust to a new environment and schedule. Travelers can also suffer from fatigue, insomnia, headaches, swelling, lack of concentration, and memory issues. To improve the chances of avoiding these side effects, look into getting a massage upon reaching your destination. Not only will this make you overall more relaxed, but it can also decrease swelling in your limbs, ease tense muscles, and overall decrease the amount of stress that is associated with traveling.
One of the most difficult things about arriving in a new place, especially in another country, is adjusting to a new lifestyle, time zone, a diverse environment, different food, etc. Traveling is not always easy, nor is it entirely peaceful and fun as we hope it to be. Instead, it can be filled with high-stress situations. I know that I would love a massage after arriving in my new destination, and I would highly recommend that you look into increasing your relaxation, improving your sleep pattern, and relieving stress and tense muscles through a post-travel massage the next time that you decide to voyage to a new destination.
If you have been traveling a lot and “knead” some relaxation, contact us to start your quote!
