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Please contact me in advance if you have any questions about contraindications and whether or not you should receive massage therapy.
Contraindications
N.C. Lic. #8524
Contraindications for massage therapy:
- Fever
- Inflammation - acute injury
- Uncontrolled high blood pressure
- Infectious illnesses
- Hernia
- Osteoporosis
- Varicose veins
- Skin problems
- Cancer, especially during active treatment
- Heart disease requiring use of blood-thinning medications
- Diabetes in conjunction with other serious conditions
- Rheumatoid arthritis and gout
- Bursitis
- Recent surgery
- Thrombosis
- Neuropathy
In many of these cases, the site of the condition can be avoided, however, systemic conditions would require physician approval for massage therapy.
A contraindication is a symptom or condition that makes a particular treatment or procedure inadvisable.
