Hypersensitivity to superficial friction

[theymademedoit]

While my husband was giving me a massage yesterday, I got wondering if anyone hates friction as much as I do? I always seem to have an abnormal reaction to it- after only a few seconds of friction, my skin goes beyond just getting red and hot and puffs up at an alarming rate and burns and itches almost like they were rubbing me with poison ivy. Sometimes I can't bear to have the spot touched again because it's simply too irritated and have had to ask for an ice pack a few times. Sometimes it lasts for just a few minutes, sometimes I can still feel it long after the massage ends. I'm fine with deeper, non-gliding friction and occasionally do ok with gliding friction if it's very short and there's a lot of lotion/oil on my skin at the time (in other words, not much friction at all!)

Has anyone else experienced this or seen it happen to a client?

 

[PandaNinja]

Hypersensitivity to superficial friction

This happens to my husband. At first I thought it was a reaction to the lotion, but it isn't. He gets it when I work on him in an area that he's having pain, the reaction is worse. It's also more pronounced on his legs medially and glute area. It's some type of histamine reaction and I don't know how to avoid it so when he needs work in those areas he just deals with it. I suppose he could take some benadryl if it ever went on too long.

 

[mjk]

Hypersensitivity to superficial friction

Dermatographism?

http://allergies.about.com/od/urticariahives/a/dermatographism.htm

people with true dermatographism have pressure as the only trigger for their symptoms.

t102

 

[Pompal 09.]

Hypersensitivity to superficial friction

Dermatographism?

http://allergies.about.com/od/urticariahives/a/dermatographism.htm

people with true dermatographism have pressure as the only trigger for their symptoms.

t102

It doesn't work like that, at least in my husbands case. His skin isn't THAT sensitive!

 

[Alice]

Hypersensitivity to superficial friction

I have one client whose skin reacts poorly to any kind of effleurage, so I don't use any kind of gliding friction techniques. She is fine with anything else that I wish to do.