Pain and the Nervous System

One of the reasons it is believed that massage therapy and reflexology can help with managing tension and pain is because of central sensitisation. When an incident like whiplash occurs for example there can be a pain pattern that may become chronic in some people. This may be due to fascial restrictions and trigger points that have developed plus the distress from an accident can ramp up the nervous system response becomes out of proportion to the damage to the tissues. Clinical massage therapy as an example may help the nervous system to modulate itself.