About self-massage

In this article we will talk about the harm or the benefits of self-massage. Our citizens have always respected and continue to respect traditional medicine. Since then, as we have become acquainted with the World Wide Web, the popularity of folk medicine has increased. For this reason, one can often hear about the healing properties of self-massage. Now we will find out if this is really so.

Our health is in our hands. This is a very popular opinion, given the general decline of modern medicine. Internet publications tell about areas that should be massaged to relieve pain. Head, neck, arms, shoulders, waist, calf muscles - these are the zones. For the truth, we turned to a specialist - a manual therapist. After talking with him on the topic of self-massage, there were some doubts. The doctor authoritatively stated that with regard to the above zones, self-massage can greatly damage.

Medical questions about the occurrence of muscle pain are also relevant. Regardless of how carefully you do the massage, at the peak of the load in the soft tissues there are micro-traumas. The organism in this case emits special substances, the concentration of which gradually increases, and in ten days there may be pain. Who will connect this sudden pain with ten-day-old activities? But there is another opinion, based on oxygen deficiency. It's no secret that the percentage of heart involvement in the circulation is small, only 10-15 percent. The heart drives the blood between the brain and the lungs. All the work to provide oxygen lies on the striated muscle. As a result of overload or hypothermia, muscle spasm develops, blood supply is disturbed, which leads to the appearance of pain. And in the first and second cases, pain tells us that we are doing something wrong with our body. And in this situation it is best to leave alone the body that worries us. In this case, massage only hurts. It is important to remember that you can not call any sudden pain a muscle.

Now we will talk about what can not be done.

Pain in the neck. There are many reasons. And what is very important, about 50% of massage is strictly prohibited. In addition, if you do not distinguish between tonic and relaxing techniques, then instead of the effect of anesthesia, you will get a decline of strength, apathy, visual impairment.

Pain in the arms and shoulders. If you can definitely exclude from the list of reasons for doing sports, the cause of the pain, most likely, are problems with the cervical spine. In this case, the most sensible will be an appeal to a specialist.

Pain in calves is almost always associated with vascular problems. In vascular diseases massage is strictly prohibited.