Corporate Massage
Experts estimate that 80 percent to 90 percent of disease is stress-related. Massage is one of the most ancient forms of healing. The first writings on massage showed up around 2000 BC. The ancient Greeks and Romans used massage to maintain health and promote healing.
Massage and yoga is there to combat that frightening number by helping us remember what it means to relax. The physical changes massage brings to your body can have a positive effect in many areas of your life. Besides increasing relaxation and decreasing anxiety, massage lowers your blood pressure, increases circulation, improves recovery from injury, helps you to sleep better and can increase your concentration. It reduces fatigue and gives you more energy to handle stressful situations.
Massage is a perfect elixir for good health, but it can also provide an integration of body and mind. By producing a meditative state or heightened awareness of living in the present moment, massage can provide emotional and spiritual balance, bringing with it true relaxation and peace.
Benefits of Massage in the Workplace:
- Relieves stress and promotes an overall feeling of relaxation, helping you breathe and move more easily
- Alleviates pain and tension, and helps you manage pain better
- Decreases inflammation
- Promotes speedy recovery from injuries (work, trauma, accident or sports-related)
- Increases mobility and provides greater joint flexibility and range of motion
- Improves circulation
- Improves and strengthens immune system
- Relieves musculoskeletal problems and improves posture
- Relieves pregnancy discomforts
- Reduces anxiety and promotes an overall feeling of well-being
- Increases body awareness
- Provides exercise and stretching for atrophied muscles and reduces shortening of the muscles for those with restricted range of motion
- Assists with shorter labor for expectant mothers, as well as less need for medication, less depression and anxiety, and shorter hospital stays
- Within minutes of receiving massage the brain begins to recharge. Giving your employees just ten minutes can increase their productivity and energy.
Health insurance costs are rising and most businesses are looking for ways to lower their insurance costs. One of the leading causes of illnesses in our is stress. Alternative medicine such as massage, meditation, acupuncture and other modalities are no longer viewed as strange, but are in fact becoming proven methods of preventative medicine. Many studies are being done on individuals who incorporate these practices in their lives. It has been reported that Stress accounts for an estimated $200 billion dollars in lost productivity, work related accidents, workers compensation claims, medical and health insurance related costs. Over 50% of lost workdays and on the job accidents are stress related. There are One million employees missing work per day because of stress and 80% of industrial / construction accidents are stress related. Studies show that businesses that provide stress reduction such as gym facilities, massage and yoga have less absenteeism, less work related accidents, more productivity and significant changes in the working environment.
Not only does massage help to reduce stress levels. It is also a great incentive or reward for employees. Massage therapy helps you relax, re-align and rejuvenate. There are many positive aspects to receiving massage therapy on an ongoing basis, and with the busy lives we lead, we can all benefit from a stress-management. The experienced, professional therapists at Peak Performance provide effective customized massage treatment to address your employees individual needs.
More and more companies are turning to massage to provide relaxation, relieve tension associated with the daily stresses of their busy lives, or simply to help maintain good health and achieve a balanced lifestyle.
Massage therapy has enjoyed popularity within the business world as of late this is largely due to the widely publicized health benefits. Along with other preventative medicines and tools like meditation, massage has been found to reduce stress, by relieving muscle tension, increasing overall flexibility and circulation, and has been proven to trigger the brains chemistry releasing mood balancing hormones and chemicals that lead to overall happiness. With the rising cost of Health Insurance in America, Insurance Companies and Businesses is desperately trying to find ways to lower the alarming rise in health care costs. Knowing that the number one reason for health problems is due to the high lingering and dangerous effects of Stress, America is changing the way in which we deal with health related issues. Preventative medicine is no longer looked at as an unusual eccentric and unproven method of treatment, but is slowly becoming an indispensable commodity in the health care industry.
Due to the relaxing-pleasurable effects of Massage Therapy along with its proven health benefits, companies using massage as sales incentives, company perks and or employee rewards are noticing a favorable trend, companies using Massage Therapy regularly report a significant reduction in employee absenteeism. That in turn increases employee productivity and translates to substantial savings for employers.
Massage along with regular exercise, healthy foods high in antioxidant nutrient content and quiet stress free time (meditation), will improves ones overall health leading to longevity and happiness. In a world with ever-increasing economical and geopolitical stressors such as terrorism and war, the world’s inhabitants are in desperate need of coping methods. With this one precious human life we have been provided with, we have a right to be healthy and happy, and a duty to our fellow man to encourage them thru our own wholehearted actions. In order for us to have a harmonious mentally and physically healthy society it is the individual that must adopt this right way of living.
All-inclusive rates include:
- Transportation to your site
- Equipment setup
- Licensed & insured massage therapists
- Professional massage chair
- Aroma therapy (optional)
- Our time-saving online scheduling system
- Free on-line scheduling -It’s fast and easy for employees to reserve their chair massage appointments – they can access your company’s secure signup schedule from any web browser
- Individual Employee accounts & preferences
- Employees can Reserve, cancel, edit appointments
- Receive email reminders & appointment info
- Purchase credits for massage sessions (employee sponsored & co-pay programs)