Contraindications of massage therapy refer to situations where massage is not suitable or in some cases, manipulation may aggravate the condition.
(1) Patients with acute spinal cord injury or spinal cord symptoms with unknown diagnosis should avoid massage without excluding spinal fracture. Subarachnoid hemorrhage must be ruled out when cerebrospinal fluid symptoms appear, which is also a contraindication for massage.
(2) For patients with various fractures, bone and joint tuberculosis, osteomyelitis, bone tumors and severe senile osteoporosis, massage may cause pathological fractures, tumor spread and metastasis or inflammation development and spread. So it is also a contraindication to massage.
(3) Patients with severe heart, lung, liver and renal failure or those who are too weak are generally not suitable for massage therapy because they cannot bear strong stimulation. Measures should be taken in time to rescue.
(4) All kinds of acute infectious diseases and acute peritonitis, including perforation of gastric and duodenal ulcers, are prohibited from being treated by massage. Open surgery should be considered.
(5) For patients with bleeding tendency or blood system diseases, massage may cause local subcutaneous bleeding, so it is not suitable for massage treatment.
(6) Avoid operating parts with skin damage. However, the application of light manipulation around bedsore to improve local blood circulation can gradually heal the ischemic and necrotic wound. This is an unexpected discovery in the treatment of traumatic paraplegia patients in the 1970s.
(7) Women who are pregnant for more than 3 months should not be massaged in abdomen, buttocks and lumbosacral region to prevent miscarriage.
(8) Massage therapy is not suitable for mental patients or people with excessive mental stress.