rose
Extremely helpful member
- Joined
- Mar 29, 2008
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- 2,925
- Reason
- DX MND
- Diagnosis
- 7/2008
- Country
- US
- State
- Maryland
- City
- Anytown
I have googled to no avail, can come up with nothing except the benefits of massage for PALS as well as the population at large.
I went for a pedicure yesterday. I went to a place that has the massage chairs. I've not sat in one of those for probably close to two years. (this next part is for the guys here, who probably don't go for pedicures) ....The back of the chair has a massage mechanism that is a roller which goes up and down your spine, and also a kneading action.
It hurt, it hurt while it was doing it. There I was, trying to feel pampered (and I was) but it hurt my back. Then today, the the length of my spine from mid shoulder to just above my waist hurts. Not a movement hurt, but to touch it it hurts.
I know this is not the expected outcome of one of these chair massages, I've had them before and they felt great! In fact, I remember the first time I sat in one of the chairs in this same salon, I remarked it was the most amazingly great contraption! I wanted to go back there not so much for the pedi, but for the chair massage.
The pain is where those rollers went up and down my spine, its not in my shoulder muscles, or other muscle, I just am bruised. But, I know I shouldn't be.
And. of course with any new development, I hope it is something that will change my ALS verdict, you know, the doctor saying how now that I have back pain from a massage its actually thus and such, and they were wrong after all. :neutral: I even googled the pressure points for fibromyalgia (just in case) nope, no luck.
I went for a pedicure yesterday. I went to a place that has the massage chairs. I've not sat in one of those for probably close to two years. (this next part is for the guys here, who probably don't go for pedicures) ....The back of the chair has a massage mechanism that is a roller which goes up and down your spine, and also a kneading action.
It hurt, it hurt while it was doing it. There I was, trying to feel pampered (and I was) but it hurt my back. Then today, the the length of my spine from mid shoulder to just above my waist hurts. Not a movement hurt, but to touch it it hurts.
I know this is not the expected outcome of one of these chair massages, I've had them before and they felt great! In fact, I remember the first time I sat in one of the chairs in this same salon, I remarked it was the most amazingly great contraption! I wanted to go back there not so much for the pedi, but for the chair massage.
The pain is where those rollers went up and down my spine, its not in my shoulder muscles, or other muscle, I just am bruised. But, I know I shouldn't be.
And. of course with any new development, I hope it is something that will change my ALS verdict, you know, the doctor saying how now that I have back pain from a massage its actually thus and such, and they were wrong after all. :neutral: I even googled the pressure points for fibromyalgia (just in case) nope, no luck.