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Contraindications: Acute Infectious Diseases

 

 

 

 

Massage is contraindicated in the case of acute infectious diseases for a number of reasons:

 

 

 

1.        The therapist is at risk of exposure to the disease

2.      Massage-especially deep massage-can sometimes further weaken a client already weakened by disease.

3.      Massage can spread infection through lymphatic channels to other areas of the body.  In certain bacterial infections such as tuberculosis, the body attempts to “wall off” the infection with a connective tissue capsule.  Massage can burst this capsule, allowing the infection to go from a latent state to an active infectious state.

 

In meningitis and encephalitis, two infectious conditions where the central nervous system is involved, the client may exhibit severe headaches, erratic behavior, confusion and loss of memory.  A person with one of these conditions should be referred to a physician.

 

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