The elderly with care to protect the spine massager
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Massager has a lot of people into the house, some massage chairs, plenty of cushion, backrest, or hand-held, and manufacturers in sales promotional certainly giving them a lot of the therapeutic effect of massage equipment, so that many people believe that massage too, often occur due to improper use of bodily injury caused by a gradual increase in the elderly phenomenon.
After all, massage can not replace the role of doctors, the elderly should be the use of massage in the appropriate use under the guidance of a doctor. So the circumstances under which elderly people can do their own massage to address the back pain?
The elderly back pain can have different situations, such as there are acute, chronic; a partial, large-scale; a bone and joint diseases, caused by, there are muscle fatigue, strain caused by, but also caused by disc, not in each case suitable for massage to ease.
General acute injury, bone and joint diseases, back pain caused by disc herniation, etc. should be used under the guidance of a doctor or go to hospital for treatment massage. And because muscle fatigue, chronic muscle strain, localized muscle discomfort caused by back pain, the elderly may be through self-massage or massage to relieve symptoms.
Massage is generally through the hands or by other suitable massage, for example the morning before going to sleep at night getting up and rubbing each other with both hands close to the side, after heating the upper and lower back muscles push the rub, knead, but also in pain, acupressure points, or near, or up and down repeatedly thump waist, the amount of massage as a degree of comfort with their own feelings may also use massage or acupuncture points in the lower back muscle proper massage to relax the muscles for the degree of comfort can not be excessive, the most important thing is to be in a doctor's guidance Under the Society for their medical gymnastics, exercising every day to prevent the aggravation of strain and adjust the balance of back muscle.
The use of massage should also be aware that not all diseases are suitable for use, nor is it free to use.
Improper use of massage devices, will tend to cause greater harm to their body.
Because the elderly due to intervertebral disc water content reduced, leading to intervertebral disc space narrowing, allowing the ligaments around the spine in a relaxed state, often in inappropriate use of massage devices will lead to changes in spine biomechanics, there may be a small joint disorders, such as lumbar disc herniation circumstances, can cause physical discomfort increased.
If, after the acute injury immediately self-massage or massage massage will increase the inflammation edema, making the pain intensified.
Now a lot of massage chairs on the market are based on the class-based full-body massage will normally be a great force on the spine, the elderly should be careful in the selection, should be chosen to the role of local muscle or acupuncture point massage based , in accordance with the instructions to use equipment, the time should not be too long, after all, the elderly tissue repair better than young people, should not cause local discomfort the next day for the degrees.