How Massage Benefits Your Muscular System

Massage encourages the nutrition and development of the muscular system by stimulating its circulation, nerve supply, and cell activity. Regular and systematic body massage causes the muscles to become firmer and more elastic, as well as flexible, and pliable.

More specifically how massage benefits your muscular system:

Increases your blood supply and nutrition to your muscles. This helps nourish muscle tissue
Massage helps prevent and relieve stiffness and soreness of the muscles
Reduces chronic muscular tension and pain
Reduces your muscle and soft tissue pain.
Massage stimulates circulation of the blood and lymph
Nourishes the muscles of your skin
Relaxes and lengthens your muscles
Massage stretches your connective tissue, which enhances your range of motion
Helps your muscles recover more quickly after exertion
Massage heals injured muscle tissue due to less connective tissue build-up and scaring
Relaxes your muscles, thus effectively quelling spasms, tension, and cramping
Reduces and breaks down adhersions (knots) and fibrosis
Reduces tissue injury, inflammation, and muscle strain
Massage helps to re-establish your proper muscular tone
Improves motor skills!
Massage decreases lower back pain
Aids in removal of accumulated metabolic waste products
Massage helps prevent muscle atrophy (long periods of injury bed-rest, paralysis, etc)
Helps improve body alignment (due to less muscle tension)
Re-establishes muscle tone
Decreases headaches and migraines due to muscle tension release