Chiropractor or Thai Massage
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My back trouble began during my military service and have gotten increasingly worse over time.
About 5 years after retiring from the army and while sitting in front of a computer workstation my back froze up and for a few minutes I couldn’t even move.
I called a nearby chiropractor who got me in right away. His hour long sessions spanned the next 25+ years with varying degrees of success.
Occasionally I needed more intense physical therapy and sought out a friend of our family who was a Thai masseuse. She learned techniques from her father who practiced in Thailand while she was growing up.
Now living in the US this wife, mother and grandmother had taken the required massage school classes and for certification purposes needed to document the clients she treated. Although a small Asian woman she knew Thai massage and after only a couple of sessions I returned to regular chiropractic treatments.
On one trip to Thailand my wife and I went downtown to see about getting our backs massaged. I really didn’t know what to expect until lying on the massage table this lady resembling a sumo wrestler (not really) gave me a regular Thai beat down, complete with walking on my back. Painful – you bet it was. I felt lucky to just walk away.
Many years later I saw a documentary on the difference between Traditional Thai massage and Swedish oil massage techniques.
Traditional Thai massages are more geared to realigning the body and muscles much the same way we would go to a gym (only different). Swedish massage is a hand rubbing of oil into the muscles with relaxing music in the background. Both technique or styles may target certain pressure points of the body. There is no real comparison – torture or luxury.
The guy on the documentary certainly found out the difference first hand by the master masseuse instructor.
Actually there are real needs for each style but the masseuse must know what they are doing or they could cause real harm.
There are so many areas (feet, back, arms, neck and head are just to name a few) and types (oil, aromatic oils, or Thai) massages that produce full health benefits without being sensual or sexual in nature.
Beware of the massage parlors with “operators” who are neither trained or certified as actual masseuse technicians. – RTM
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