Need some help - Ronnie

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Hi, Ronnie,

I passed your need to my daughter, a massage therapist at a resort spa

in Blowing Rock, NC. She has reported that emotional responses

during massage are not uncommon and pretty well-documented in

textbooks and literature.

However, intense pain after a massage is something to be concerned

about, especially if it has not cleared up or lessened after 4 days. We

are not aware of the type of massage that your friend had, how deep o

vigorous. If it was a very deep massage that focussed a heavily in the

general area of present pain, it might have caused soreness, but

should not have caused severe pain.

said that unless the massage therapist did work that was to

vigorous, did stretches without warming the tissue and checking with

the client on range of motion, or worked in an endangerment site (area

that should not be massaged because of near-surface blood vessels or

nerves) the massage should not have caused pain. So unless

something like that happened during the massage and not mentioned

in the email, it is not very likely that the massage was the cause of the

pain, but more likely that the onset of the pain coincidentally

happened after a massage. She said that more specific information

would be needed before a possible explanation could be made.

Regardless, she said that if your friend has been in severe pain for 4

days, she should see a physician.

From experience with Bettie Jo, during a period of time when she was

having physical therapy sessions, the did have pain in the hip area.

This occurred when the therapist attempted to correct the pelvic tilt

which had been developed during the long period of favoring her left

leg. Over a long period, the pelvis tilted to one side, and the hips had

become accustomed to the tilt. When the therapist developed

exercises to correct that problem, it was indeed painful.

Does that help?

Don