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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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