If you are a professionally licensed massage therapist, it does not matter what the client gives you permission to do. What is important is your ethics and scope of practice. If you know that it is systemically (whole body) contraindicated, even if it is not contagious, you should not give them a massage.
If you are a professionally licensed massage therapist, it does not matter what the client gives you permission to do. What is important is your ethics and scope of practice. If you know that it is systemically (whole body) contraindicated, even if it is not contagious, you should not give them a massage.
It is a local contraindication because it is contagious.
Massage can make it worse, and the therapist can get infected as well. So it's a local contraindication, which means the therapist can massage other parts of the body, but not where it is infected.
A facial massage may not give rise to a contraindication in itself. The client may have a preexisting condition that could be aggravated by massage to the face. One example is trigeminal neuralgia.
It is not a contraindication for massage at all. It is a contraindication for being in a supine, and even a prone, position. If the massage therapist is trained properly, they will know how to do a sidelying position massage that will be safe. Again, it is not the massage that is contraindicated, but the position that most people have on the massage table. Sidelying resolves the issues with supine hypotensive syndrome so there should be no problem for you to receive a massage, just lie on your side, or even better, just on your left side.
When it is in an acute stage or inflammation
sunburn in a contraindication in massage treatment and treatment shouldnt be carried out until the sunburn has healed and skin exfoliated
Allergies are not a contraindication of massage. Inform your therapist of any allergy so they do not use lubrication containing the allergen.
It isn't, however some types of massage may be. Inform your Therapist and they can adjust their treatment accordingly
The only reason it may be a contraindication is because it is recent. After it has had a chance to heal, massage is actually indicated for scars.
Yes it can. You should check with their doctor to see if it is a contraindication.
The main concern is that it is an acute stage and that usually is considered a contraindication because the body is using most of its resources to combat the infection. Massage would only add to the overload of resources at work and task the body systems even more. It is best to let the acute phase resolve to a sub-acute level, then massage can be beneficial in the healing phase.
There are basically four critical elements of massage therapy protocol for people under cancer treatment. And among these, the first protocol points out the need of obtaining the physician's permission. Only the patient's doctor has the authority to clear him/her for a health massage therapy. This is to avoid the possibility of the spreading of the cancer. Also, regular massage therapy performed by a generally licensed massage therapist and without additional specialized education in cancer is considered to be a contraindication for cancer patients.