1) dredge meridians, relax muscles and relieve fatigue;
2) promoting qi and blood circulation, promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis;
3) chiropractic, smooth joints;
4) analgesia, warming meridians to relieve pain.
5) strengthening the brain and calming the nerves;
6) Healthy spleen and stomach;
7) regulating breath and moistening lung;
8) Moisturizing and beautifying;
9) Reduce fat and lose weight;
10) Adjust zang-fu organs, strengthen the body resistance and eliminate pathogenic factors;
1 1) Healthy and long life;
From the current medical point of view, the functions are:
1. pressure
As we all know, massage therapy is very effective in relieving stress. Eliminating stress can enhance people's energy, improve their quality of life and reduce the possibility of injury or illness. Massage therapy can also relieve asthma, insomnia and other symptoms that will be aggravated by mental anxiety. Because massage therapy is very effective in relieving stress, it is often used as an auxiliary therapy for individual psychotherapy or addiction treatment.
2. Pain or muscle tension
Massage therapy can relieve various forms of muscle compression and tension symptoms, such as cramps and shoulder muscle tension. Massage therapy directly acts on muscles through flapping, kneading and other actions to help muscles relax and return to normal; At the same time, it can stimulate the nervous system to send signals and promote muscle relaxation.
3. Muscle pain
Massage therapy helps to eliminate the waste accumulated in muscle parts after exercise and eliminate muscle soreness.
4. Pain or numbness in arms/legs
When muscles are very tense, they may press the nerves in the arms, hands or legs, causing numbness or pain. When this happens, massaging the shoulders and buttocks will help to relax the spasmodic muscles in these areas and reduce numbness in the arms and legs.
be injured
Massage therapy is helpful to the recovery of pain, and has a good effect on tendon strain, ligament sprain or muscle injury caused by accident or exercise. Massage therapy can also strengthen blood circulation, take away waste from the affected area, and transport nutrients at the same time, thus alleviating inflammatory symptoms and helping tissue recovery. Some massage techniques can prevent new wounds from forming scars, or reduce or alleviate the scars of old wounds.
6. Accompanied by pain
Massage therapy can relieve the pain caused by some diseases, such as headache caused by eye fatigue, low back pain caused by bad pregnancy, or protective contraction reaction of healthy muscles around the wounded.
7. Prevent new injuries
Massage therapy can prevent new injuries caused by squeezing disordered muscle groups or pressing the wounded.
8. Joint pain or stiffness
In addition to relaxing muscle tension to relieve the symptoms of joint stiffness, massage therapy can also directly act on joint parts, strengthen blood circulation in this part, stimulate joints to produce more lubricating fluid, and relieve joint pain caused by arthritis and other diseases.
9. Attitude
Massage therapy can relax muscles and joints and restore the body from a tense and stiff state to a more natural posture; In addition, it can also relieve muscle contraction and pain caused by incorrect spinal posture.
10. Mobility is inconvenient
There are many reasons for mobility inconvenience, including injury, surgery, paralysis and even natural aging. In these cases, massage therapy can help relieve pain and enhance blood circulation of skin and muscles. Although some stiff parts can't be directly massaged, general massage can relax the whole body and promote blood circulation, which will also bring beneficial effects to these parts.
1 1. Body fluid balance
Massage therapy can promote circulation and help to discharge excessive tissue fluid caused by injury, surgery or pregnancy.
Just pay attention to these:
The indications of massage therapy are as follows
1. traumatic diseases: various acute and chronic closed soft tissue injuries of spine, limbs and joints, hyperosteogeny diseases, etc. Such as sprain and contusion, joint dislocation, muscle strain, chest and hypochondriac qi, intervertebral disc herniation, cervical spondylosis, rheumatoid arthritis, scapulohumeral periarthritis, fracture sequelae, etc.
2. Some internal diseases: headache, insomnia, epigastric pain, gastroptosis, cold, cough, asthma, biliary colic, hypertension, angina pectoris, diabetes, constipation, hemiplegia, arthralgia, etc.
3. Some surgical diseases: postoperative intestinal adhesion, breast abscess, bedsore, etc.
4. Some gynecological diseases: irregular menstruation, dysmenorrhea, premenstrual tension, menopausal syndrome, pelvic inflammatory disease, etc.
5. Pediatric diseases: cold, fever, cough, asthma, abdominal pain, diarrhea, vomiting, constipation, enuresis, indigestion, torticollis, cerebral palsy, etc.
6. Some ENT diseases: pharyngitis, juvenile myopia and strabismus.
Contraindications of massage therapy
1, open soft tissue injury.
2, some infectious sports organ diseases, such as bone tuberculosis, erysipelas, osteomyelitis, suppurative arthritis, etc.
3. Some acute infectious diseases, such as hepatitis and tuberculosis.
4, all kinds of hemorrhagic diseases, such as bloody stool, hematuria, traumatic bleeding, etc.
5, local skin lesions, such as burns and ulcerative dermatitis.
6. Early stage of tumor, fracture and paraplegia.
7. The lumbosacral region, buttocks and abdomen of pregnant women.
8, female menstrual period should not be used or used with caution.
9. The elderly, the infirm, the chronically ill, the overtired, the hungry, the drunken, and those suffering from severe heart disease and critical illness are prohibited or used with caution.