Page 8 - Hani Times Apr. 2020

8 Acupuncture April 1, 2020 Vol. 13 Hani Times

Risk of the Upside-down Table and Deep Tissue Massage

Patients feel uncomfortable I instead suggest walking of massage are coming from
sensations in their eyes after or swimming in the water. the Thai style - harder and
they get up. Because of these Exercising in water is the safest stronger massage. It could
effects, they're risky if you have and effective method to let the cause damage to the muscle
high blood pressure, glaucoma body float and decompress. fiber during the aggressive
or any other eye disease, heart At the same time, the patient pressure to the muscle. Imagine
disease, a history of strokes, needs to strengthen the back when you pull hard an opening
hiatal hernia, inner ear problems, muscles such as the erector of a round neck sweater. You
or are pregnant. and quadratus lumborum might see the opening become
muscles with walking or jogging wide and loose because the
A patient was taking my regularly. elastic fiber in the opening
treatment, and he felt a lot less The second therapeutic method has damaged.
pain than before. But he started which the patient prefers has That is why I always recommend
△ I recommend walking in a swimming pool to build muscle
for the elder. Exercising in water is the safest and most to use the upside-down table. to take a massage. Generally my patients to take Swedish
effective method without muscular or cartilage damage of And he found that his ache speaking, massage is excellent massage when they want to do it,
the elder. imageⓒshutterstock_ Monkey Business Images
worse. From my experience, to treat any stiffness in the neck especially if the muscle volume
this side effect usually happens, and back muscle and also useful of the patient is smaller than
massage. especially among the elder and to get rid of mental stress. But others or the age of a patient
By Winston Lee
The upside-down table is called females. It means their muscle from time to time, some patients is older than 50's. I always
L. Ac., Ph.D., KMD
the inversion table. You lie on density is not dense and robust are suffering after taking deep tell my patients to respond
it and then tip it, so you lean enough to support the weight tissue massage, which performs to the massage therapist as
Due to the high cost of medical back at an angle or are upside against gravity and support by foot and elbow pressing. they feel unbearable pain
expenses, many people in the down. You hang this way for a their whole body. I assume They expected to remove the during the massage without
U.S. are considering using few minutes. It can decompress that movement like an upside- pain, but it got worse after any hesitation. The intolerable
alternative methods rather than the whole spine because your down body position put too the massage, unfortunately. pain during the massage means
seeing a medical doctor. When head is pulling the spinal colon much stress on the fibers of the The Swedish massage is safer that there is an injury in the
they get a cold or toothache, down. It looks beneficial and muscle. In case the muscle fibers than Thai style massage in muscle, and it's not worth to
they commonly take Advil or could relieve the pain. In short, reach their limit, it causes an most cases. Swedish involves bear that much pain.
Tylenol without hesitation. I do not recommend using the injury. I know that most of the soft, long, kneading strokes, as As a practitioner, we need to keep
When it comes to lower back table to my patient. Dr. Edward R. cases are safe and acceptable, well as light, rhythmic, tapping the focus on the patient's daily
pain or neck stiffness, the most Laskowski, in Mayo clinic, M.N. but I cannot recommend it to strokes, on topmost layers of life and to ask any suspicious
popular alternative therapy is says Inversion tables cause to my patient as a doctor if an muscles. thing whenever the outcome
either using the upside-down slow down of a patient's heartbeat unignorable amount of evidence It is typical for using the of the treatment is not as good
table or taking a deep tissue and the blood pressure to rise. hurts them. weight of a therapist and as expected. And we should
is more aggressive. As you tell them too much is as bad
expect, most of the side effects as too little.

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