Touch Therapy and its Benefits
Interest in hands-on therapies has become very popular nowadays that even conventional physicians now embrace these treatments as beneficial not only in reducing stress, but also in speeding post-surgery recovery, managing addictions, and ending chronic pain from migraines, arthritis, and other serious afflictions.
According to the University of Miami’s Touch Therapy Institute, babies who receive daily massage gain an average of 47 percent more weight and are discharged from hospitals up to one week earlier than babies who are not massaged. Before learning about these facts, I used to think that having enough vitamins and minerals in the body is more important so I spend alot of money on vitamins of all sorts – men’s multivitamin, children ones, for women…etc. Touch therapy offers a number of benefits for newborn children. Some of these benefits include;
- Promoting wellness of the newborn;
- Enhancing the bonding process between baby and parent;
- Accelerates recovery from the normal rigors of birth trauma and/or difficult, prolonged labor;
- Helps to soothe teething discomfort;
- Optimizes growth and development, especially for babies who were critically ill at birth;
- Minimizes the complications of prematurity and provides loving comfort for babies who are hospitalized and separated from their parents;
Not only that touch or massage therapy are beneficial to an infant’s well being, but more importantly, babies that were massaged early in childhood establish a warm, positive relationship that continues as the child grows.
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