does massage help decompression?
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you need to be more specific with your symptoms before I could tell you if massage could help you.\nIf it is soft tissue issue then YES but you also have to find the right kind of therapist.
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no. it's a relatively healthy outlet for stress decompression. much safer than partner sex, you don't have to wear a condom, and you know that you're having sex with someone you really love - yourself!
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A health professional can perform this procedure better. A lubricated, gloved finger is inserted into your rectum and pressed several times on your prostate. This may need to be done 2 or 3 times a week. Why this works is not certain, but it is believed that the massage helps open blocked ducts in the prostate, improving circulation and antibiotic penetration into the prostate. Prostatic massage is not done for acute bacterial prostatitis because it could cause the bacteria to spread from the prostate and cause a wider infection (sepsis).
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First try a warm bath with some Epsom or Dead Sea Salts. Soak for 20 minutes. For a soothing atmosphere, turn out the lights, try some candles and relaxing music--classical or "new age". You can add aromatherapy--the essential oil lavender is excellent for this.\n\nChamomille tea can induce a relaxed state--bring some water to a boil and then steep 1 tea bag in 6-8 ounces of the water for 10-15 minutes. Drink 20 minutes before bedtime.\n\nOnce in bed, do some progressive relaxation--beginning with your feet, tense them and relax them. Repeat this 1-3 times moving to your legs, thighs, buttocks, abdomen, back, arms, shoulders and neck. It does not take long.\n\nFinally take 5-10 deep breaths from the lower belly. Breathe VERY SLOWLY in through your nostrils and out through your mouth--do not force your breath. Become aware of where your breath is traveling within your body. After some practice, you'll be able to direct your breath to areas of tension. Before you nod off, review and FOCUS on all the POSITIVE EVENTS (even when you've had a less than great day there will be always something that was good), that happened during your day and name at least 3 things that you are grateful for. This good habit can have very wonderful long term benefits.\n\nSince you state that your job is physical in nature, consider receiving bodywork (i.e., massage, shiatsu, deep tissue massage, accupuncture, craniosacral therapy, etc.) on a regular basis.\n\nMake sure that you are eating a very healthy diet. Eliminate any sugar, corn syrup, high fructose corn syrup, white flour products, processed foods, caffeine, foods with preservatives/food colorings, carbonated beverages. Drink plenty of high quality spring water. \n\nIf not already doing so, find some quality supplements to take--good multi-vitamin and multi-mineral, antioxidants, etc. It is especially important to make sure you are getting enough calcium and magnesium.\n\nConsider looking into ways to meditate. A relaxed mind will help to create a relaxed body. It is important to realize that your body is a reflection of your inner being.\n\nBONUS: Learn the "Six Healing Sounds"--an ancient Taoist practice that helps to cool down and release blockages in the internal organs and to enhance the life force throughout the body. This really works, is fun to practice and releases a great amount of built-up stress. T'ai chi and/or Chi Kung are also very beneficial.\n\nOne, some, all or none of the above may work for you. If you are still having difficulty after experimenting with different modalites, it can be helpful to get a work-up done by a holisitcally-oriented MD, clinical nutritionist,  naturopathic physician or osteopathic physician to evaluate any possible nutrient deficiencies, imbalances, etc.\n\nGood Luck and Sweet Dreams\n\nA Massage Therapist
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I am also a massage therapist.  i have found that if you get clients who keep fit then they prefer a deep tissue massage.  The hot stone massage does not seem popular where i am based.  I have a few clients that come for relaxation, but others that come for treatments for ailments.  My most popular treatments other that relaxation are deep tissue massage, crystal therapy massage, and refexology.
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If you have liquid retention in your ankles, legs or arms, then compression bandaging could be one way to reduce this problem (ie using bandages to wrap your problem area using a certain amount of pressure, hence forcing the water elsewhere and to be slowly absorced)\n\nKeepin the certain part elevated slightly above the body can also help.\n\nLastly, massaging the area can help the body absorb the water.
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Massage over chest with any type of vegetable oil mixed with salt.Oil must be warm. After massage fomentation helps.
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I have not done that but I did have a full body massage one time and was left to relax afterwards with eye mask and headphones on and swathed in several towels. It felt totally weird for a while but just as I was getting used to it the therapist came back and released me.
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You should go to a massage therapist.
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massage and reflexology
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I've never heard of that!!! I knew the thing about not getting into a hot tub if you were so far along (I got in one during the first 3 months because I was so stiff and sore all the time but the further the preg. went I just grinned and bared it) But I had not ever heard not to use the massage pads. That truly makes no sense! They have special massages out there for preg women . \nWho told you not to use the pad? Was it your doc...if so tell him you'd like to know more of why...if it was just a friend then I would call and ask my ob/gyn.
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It depends on several factors.  If you are already experiencing pain, yes, the massage will hurt while the added pressure is applied, but should subside back to the original intensity within a few hours.  Most of the time, people do not have any unpleasant sensations from a deep tissue massage, if it starts to hurt, then ask for the therapist to not use so much pressure or to move to another area.  After working the same area for a while, it can become tender and uncomfortable.  Each person has a unique pain threshold of thier own, and what is painful to some is not to others. I personally feel pain very easily, due to a nerve problem, but do injoy a strong massage to work out the kinks in my neck shoulders and low back.  Hope this helped.
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so far all the answers are good but i will tell you have is really good i have had like 52 brain surgies and went to see a myofacial therepist for the scaring and it really helped what finely did the trick was arnica massage cream when I became a massage therepist myself along with the myofacial massage so I would try both
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Liquid Breathing\n\nA lot of you I am sure have seen the movie "The Abyss". If not then it doesn't matter but what is important however, is one of the diving techniques that they use. This technique is called Liquid Breathing. Until not long ago, people thought that this was fictitious and was not possible but in fact it has been around for a lot longer than you might think!\n\nThe general type of liquid used by the US Navy and other Navies in the world generally have a perfluorocarbon type composition. The type of halide attached onto the molecule depends but it is either fluorine or bromine. However, the only problem associated with using bromine is that it is a very strong greenhouse gas but it could be regenerated through special filters and rebreathers.\n\nADVANTAGES\n\nIt  seems like an odd concept but:\n\n1- Due to its density, Liquivent (marketed name for liquid breathing liquid) can carry as much as 25 times as much oxygen than blood and it has enormous potential for patients with lung and breathing disorders. \n\n2- If fluid is taken into the lungs whilst diving, then the pressure in the body could match that of the pressure of the surrounding water. Thus breathing would be easier and lower concentrations would only be needed. \n\n3- Thus, this would also eliminate the need for decompression and its inherent problems i.e. nitrogen narcosis and the bends.\n\n4- A given volume of oxygen-saturated fluorocarbon contains 3 times as much oxygen as the same volume of air or whole blood.\n\n5- According to the movie "The Abyss", the deepest suit dive was to 4800ft which is equivalent to about 300atmospheres of pressure! Tests with mice have been done at pressures of up to 8000ft.\n\nHISTORY\n\nThis concept originated in the mid 60's when Dr Kylstra a physiologist realised that salt solutions could be saturated with oxygen at high pressures. However, after several experiments he concluded that this mixture becomes toxic due to the build up of carbon dioxide. Therefore, a new mixture that could be saturated with oxygen and get rid of carbon dioxide quickly and efficiently had to be thought of.\n\nAfter further experimentation in 1969, Dr Clark realised that oxygen and carbon dioxide were very soluble in fluorocarbon liquids like freon. Assuming the lungs could cope with this material, Dr Clark figured that these fluorocarbons could support respiration of animals.\n\nLater developments\n\nDuring later years, the techniques of liquid breathing were constantly refined and improved. The survival rate of all the tested animals in recent years has been very high, thanks mainly to improvements in carbon dioxide elimination. Current liquids used can dissolve over 65 ml of oxygen and 228 ml of carbon dioxide per 100 ml perfluorocarbon. By the early 1990s this procedure was developed:-\n\n   1. The animal was anesthetized with intravenous sodium thiopental.\n   2. The animal was put on its back. A tube was placed down its airway, ready for the liquid breathing medium.\n   3. A blood sample was taken. The temperature of the liquid was adjusted correspondingly. It was no longer necessary to make the animals hypothermic.\n   4. The perfluorocarbon was instilled into the animal's lungs through the tube.\n   5. A floor-mounted 3-litre reservoir was filled with the perfluorocarbon. The liquid was driven by a pump through a series of machines which warmed and oxygenated the liquid and took the carbon dioxide out of it. The liquid flowed through a tube into a 3-way pneumatic valve which directed flow to the animal. A computer controlled the inspiration (18 ml of fluid per second), pumping the liquid into the animal's lungs, then back out again to the reservoir, at a rate of about 6 complete respirations per minute.\n   6. At the end of the test, the animal was tilted for about 15 seconds and the perfluorocarbon was allowed to drain from the lungs. This can be seen in the film The Abyss where Ensign Monk drain
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Therapy that uses physical agents: exercise and massage and other modalities.
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Hyperbaric therapy does help people that have the "bends" (decompression sickness) and helps in healing by increasing the amount of oxygen the blood can hold. It's been used in the treatment of burns, carbon monoxide poisoning, smoke inhalation and flesh eating bacteria.\n\nIt should only be done as prescribed by a physician as there are some dangerous side effects. If you have asthma it will increase the likelihood of cerebral arterial gas embolism. (sudden onset of unconsciousness associated with a generalized or focal seizure. There is often confusion, vertigo (extreme dizziness) and cardiopulmonary arrest.) In other moderate to severe forms of COPD, it's likely the person will cease to breathe. There's also barotrauma to the ears.\n\nIf you live in the U.S., it's expensive and insurance will only cover it as prescribed by a doctor.  I can't imagine this as an elective procedure unless there is strong medical need for it.
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Have you ever tried massage therapy? I know you might feel exhausted all the time, and at times you might not feel like doing a thing, but some light exercise might help keep you going, something that wont make you feel worse. Massage therapy is recommended to relax the patient, decrease muscle tone (spasm), prevent joint stiffness, help you with range of motion. Is good just to go for 1/2 hr treatment at least twice a week, you don't want to get more tired that you need to.\nYou might want to find maybe a school of massage therapy around you and up in the clinic of the school the prices are very inexpensive, compare to the spa outside.\nHope it works and hope you feel better\nGood health :)