Arm says 'no'

[ANON123456]

Morning all,

I do therapeutic/deep tissue/sports massage and as I am now solely doing therapy work I am a bit disgruntled coz my lead arm (left) is... well it's bloomin' painful at times!

It's the deep tissue/sports massage work that gets and keeps my clients and so if I want them to stay then I need to work out how I can practise differently to save me arm! The pain comes intermittently when I apply pressure using my thumb.

I can't afford to any more courses yet - I will hopefully be able to get enough money to do a Jing course which can help me with some different techniques to achieve the same (if not better) results that I currently get.

I am presuming some of you massage practitioners must also have at some point had pain in your elbows/wrists etc, so can I ask what you have done or are doing to help you continue working?

Ta muchley!

 

[gars]

Hi Derek and Reiki Pixie

I haven't used feet in my massages over here but when I trained in Thai massage in Thailand, we were taught to use them.

I know a masseuse who used to have her own clinic in Manhatten and she used to regularly walk up and down people - however she wasn't in excess of 11 stone which I currently am !