Back massagers help restore balance to stroke victims. Balance deficit is reversed when brain tissue is repaired. Daily massage is part of a multidiciplinary approach to optimum rehabilitation for patients with brain injury from stroke.

The goal is to stimulate the production of new blood vessels that grow into the injured area.

After breathing pressurized oxygen to supersaturate the plasma, blood flows through stenotic vessels of the patient, damaged narrow vessels that have prevented adequate oxygen from reaching brain tissues.The mitochondria in the damaged cells then produce adenosinetriphosphate for repair.

After this hyperbaric oxygen treatment, hypoxia returns. Hypoxia inducible genes emerge to attempt a rescue of the cells by promoting the production of growth factors for neuron survival without oxygen. The vascular endothelial growth factor stimulates the growth of new blood vessels if it is not environmentally inhibited or blocked. Stress hormones, depression, alcohol, smoking, air pollutants, infections, are among the inhibitors to brain tissue repair.

Chronic stress, clinical depression, and anxiety can be greatly reduced with regular daily massage sessions. This has been extensively researched at The University of Miami School of Medicine Touch Research Institute. These adverse influences produce excess corticotrophin and glucocorticoids that destroy hippocampal neurons and reduce the mobilization of brain stemm cells.

Self deep tissue back massagers offer an ideal method of affordable, convenient daily massage in this multidiciplinary approach to reduce the inhibiting hormones and allowing new blood vessel growth factors to proliferate and heal brain damage from stroke.

Brief daily massage is more effective at lowering stress hormones than long bimonthly sessions.

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