Doctor HUYNH TAN VU, Head of the Daytime Treatment Unit of Ho Chi Minh City University of Medicine and Pharmacy Hospital, Branch 3, replied: Massage brings many benefits to health, beauty, and relieves sadness, stress, and fatigue. But nowadays, everyone does massage for themselves or asks others to do it, or goes to places that call themselves massage establishments without a license or professional certificate, still doing massage, causing health to decline more and more, pain, numbness, and fatigue to become more and more serious, facial muscles to shrink and sag, beauty to be deformed, increased insomnia, body fatigue, discomfort, etc. That chaos causes unpredictable consequences that can sometimes be life-threatening.
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Pain, numbness, and fatigue are not simply due to overwork but can be signs of many acute and chronic diseases. Do not be subjective when you feel pain, numbness, and fatigue, just massage. In fact, the method of massage to relieve pain and fatigue is very good because it softens tendons and muscles, stimulates hormones to create a feeling of pain relief and relaxation, but because you feel better, you may ignore the real cause of the disease, making you subjective and not go to the doctor, missing the time and opportunity to detect and treat the disease. Do not be subjective with the feeling of pain, numbness, and fatigue as normal symptoms, especially in the elderly. Be more careful with severe, sudden pain such as back pain, chest pain, groin pain, abdominal pain, etc.
When in need, people should choose a place with expertise for health care; for massage, they should go to traditional medicine hospitals or traditional medicine departments of hospitals, clinics with medical licenses, be examined, consulted and prescribed massage methods by doctors. First, it is necessary to determine the cause of pain, numbness and fatigue, then choose the appropriate treatment method such as massage. Massage may be suitable for this person, this disease, but for other people, other diseases, it can be combined with: acupuncture, medication, exercise... The group of diseases that can be treated with appropriate massage are diseases of pain, paralysis, and body dysfunction. Through massage, specialists can detect acute or emergency diseases such as abdominal pain due to appendicitis, back pain due to urinary stones... These cases need to be transferred to the hospital for surgical intervention.
Before getting a massage, you should inform your doctor about any health problems or illnesses you have, such as scratches, fever, osteoporosis, pregnancy, etc. Eat and exercise properly, maintain proper posture when working, studying, living, and playing.
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