Contraindications for massage therapy
Medical contraindications to massage include:
- Fever
- Haemorrhage or risk of bleeding (tendency to bleed)
- Infectious diseases
- Acute and subacute inflammation
- Skin diseases accompanied by blistering, pimples or skin breakage
- 3rd and 4th stage of Buerger’s disease (thromboembolic inflammation of the arteries)
- Syringomyelia
- Osteomyelitis accompanied by fistulas
- Bone brittleness
- Bone fractures
- Hind thigh ulceration
- Suppuration
- Inflammation of the veins
- Recent scabbing
- Advanced atherosclerosis
- Hip joint endoprosthesis (hip joint bending up to a 90-degree angle)
- Unstabilized heart defects, pacemaker
- Aneurism
- Pregnancy
- Menstruation
- Cancer
- Ulceration accompanied by bleeding
- Gall and kidney stones
- Gall tract inflammation
- Bowel diseases accompanied by ulceration, bleeding and chronic obstructions
- Acute and subacute inflammation of the organs of the true pelvis
