Manual therapy - the oldest medical art, in which treat with hands, that is massage.
Harm or benefit brings manual therapy?
This type of treatment is, first of all, not medicamentous. That is, the disease is eliminated without taking medications. But also this type of treatment is perfectly combined with medicines, if the attending physician considers their appointment necessary.
With the help of manual therapy rather quickly, and sometimes instantly it is possible to eliminate pain syndrome, especially if it concerns diseases of the spine and musculoskeletal system. In addition, with the help of manual therapy, it is possible to successfully treat internal diseases.
But manual therapy, like any other treatment, can cause harm to health. To prevent this from happening, you need to know in which cases it is contraindicated.
Contraindications for manual therapy:
- all kinds of oncological diseases;
- acute infectious diseases;
- increased intracranial pressure ;
- high blood pressure;
- inflammatory processes in the brain and spinal cord.
Before the beginning of treatment, you should always make sure of the doctor's qualification and be sure that you are dealing with a graduate. This is a very important point, as there are now quite a few "healers" who call themselves manual therapists, and in fact do not even have a doctor's diploma. In the best case, the result of this treatment will not be, and at worst - the state of health may suffer.
Manual therapy during pregnancy
Pregnancy is a special and very important period in the life of every woman. Carrying a baby, the body is a lot of changes. It's all natural and physiological. But often future mothers experience discomfort and even pain in the spine, joints. Medicines for pregnancy are not advisable, and some are absolutely contraindicated. In this situation, manual therapy can be of great help.
Indications for manual therapy in pregnant women:
- toxicosis, which can not be eliminated by conventional means;
- pain in the joints;
- pain in the pelvis and spine;
- stressful condition before childbirth;
- swelling in the legs;
- tone of the uterus.
Contraindications to manual therapy as such during pregnancy. The only thing that it is not necessary to conduct such courses of medical procedures, if the following situations occur:
- threat of abortion;
- the threat of premature delivery;
- suspicion of placental abruption.
Contraindications for manual therapy of the spine
As already mentioned above, manual therapy gives excellent results in the treatment of the spine. But there are also such contraindications:
- tumors of the spine, brain and spinal cord;
- acute joint diseases;
- condition after spinal surgery;
- disk myelopathy;
- fresh injuries of the spine and joints;
- arthrosis of 3-4 degrees;
- Forestier's disease;
- osteoporosis of bones;
- consolidated fractures of the spine;
- traumatic injuries of the intervertebral discs to the formation of bone callus.
Thus, I want to emphasize once again: trust your health only to highly qualified specialists. A competent manual therapist will solve your health problems, and in case of any accompanying diseases, he will always be able to consult you and decide whether treatment can be carried out in this or that situation.