If you have issues with sleeping, hot stone massage is a natural remedy to help with insomnia. This study shows how hot stone massage can improve your sleep patterns and the quality of your sleep, so that you wake up feeling refreshed.

Whether you have issues with flexibility because of your body shape or from intense exercise, hot stone massage can help. When hot stones are placed around a joint, they can loosen it more than if no stones are used.

The hot stones that are placed on your back will assist to expand your blood vessels, which in turn assists with blood flow. If you have issues with circulation, hot stone massage is a terrific help.

Hot stone massages help your body to detoxify, and increased circulation also delivers more oxygen and nutrients to your muscles. This gentle therapy is a relaxing way to improve your energy levels and feeling of well-being.

This study shows how massages in conjunction with hot stones increase lymphocytes, which help your white blood cells to prevent infection.

Tell your therapist if you have an auto-immune disease, and they will be able to implement specific treatments to assist with self-healing. The increase of lymphocytes in your body will assist with treating fibromyalgia, lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, and other auto-immune diseases.

Heated stones placed on the body are an excellent treatment to release tension in muscles, and bring pain relief. The massage will also minimise your cortisol levels whilst raising seratonin and dopamine in your body- otherwise known as the 'happy hormones'.

A three-year study into cancer treatment showed that massage can improve cancer symptoms, even in advanced cases. These issues include pain, anxiety, nausea, depression, fatigue and stress.

Some muscle spasms can be exhausting, and others can last for hours. Hot stone massage reduces or removes the spasms, as well as minimising the inflammation in the muscles that commonly comes with spasming.