Contraindications in Healthcare Massage

A few circumstances to be cautious applying massage

1、When hungry. Due to blood sugar too low may cause shock.

2、Within 1 hour after meal, or when stomach is expanded.

3、After violent sports and extremely tired people, should have rest for a moment then consider massage.

4、Women during menstruation and pregnancy, whose abdomen and lumbaosacral portion manipulations producing strong stimulations should not be applied to. Women been pregnant more than five months, some acupoints like Hegu, Jianjing, Sanyinjiao may causeabortion.

5、People have cerebral accident threat.

6、Severe heart disease patients.

7、Mental patient in unstable mood.

8、Patients of hemorrhagic disease or with hemorrhagic tendency such as stomach and intestine ulcer hemorrhage, blood platelet reduction, malignant anemia, leukemia.

9、Malignant tumor and AIDS patients.

10、Extremely weak people.

11、People have other doubtful disease not diagnosed clearly are recommended to go to hospital for overall examination.

Introduction of Massage

Applying skills of hands and fingers, move continuously on body skin, muscle tissues to cure disease, this kind of method is called massage therapy.

There are 25 kinds of commonly used manipulations: pushing with one-finger, Mr. Ding’s rolling, kneading, circular rubbing, to-and-fro rubbing, pushing, palm-twisting, wiping, shaking, vibrating, pressing, sweeping, plucking, gripping, chopping, digital-pressing, scraping, grasping, finger-twisting, patting, percussing, rotating, back-carrying, pulling and traction.

Acting principles of massage lude balancing yin and yang, regulating the zang-fu organs, dredging the meridians and promoting circulation of qi to activate blood.

Reinforcement and reduction methods of massage are reinforcing and reducing methods with light or heavy manipulations, reinforcing and reducing methods with manipulations of right or left rotation, reinforcing and reducing methods with manipulation along or against the meridians, and reinforcing and reducing methods with to-and-fro manipulation.