Top Document: [alt.backrubs] Frequently Asked Questions (FAQL), (2/5) Previous Document: Is massage a sexual technique? Next Document: What does this technical term mean? See reader questions & answers on this topic! - Help others by sharing your knowledge learn all you need to know. In general, be careful of organs, joints (including vertebrae), and veins. Avoid applying heavy pressure to the kneecap, back of the knee, the abdomen and the front of the neck. There is a right direction (toward the heart) and a wrong direction to apply pressure. (Veins have valves that act to prevent the back flow of blood returning to the heart. You don't want to blow those valves!) Read the `toward.heart' file in the archive (see question 5.1.2) if you are interested in the discussion of why certain massage techniques do not go towards the heart. Similarly, the abdomen should be massaged in a clockwise direction because of the way the intestines are laid out. Obviously avoid broken bones, acute inflammations, etc. and use caution if the recipient has a medical problem, including infections. Information and advice about massaging bruises, and dealing with chronic pain, is available in the archive. Cancer and plebitis have been mentioned as conditions incompatible with massage. Beyond that, you're responsible for getting your own expert therapeutic, medical, legal, etc. advice :-) The `warning' file in the archive contains some of the more dire warnings posted to the newsgroup. The `toward.heart' file in the archive contains some more information about the direction in which to apply pressure. User Contributions:Top Document: [alt.backrubs] Frequently Asked Questions (FAQL), (2/5) Previous Document: Is massage a sexual technique? Next Document: What does this technical term mean? Part1 - Part2 - Part3 - Part4 - Part5 - Single Page [ Usenet FAQs | Web FAQs | Documents | RFC Index ] Send corrections/additions to the FAQ Maintainer: jamie@csd.uwo.ca (J. Blustein)
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