Can Joint Pain Be Sorted by Massage Therapy? Doctor’s Explanation

CNN Indonesia

Saturday, 10 June 2023 14:45 WIB

Jakarta, CNNIndonesia —

Massage therapists are often the closest solution to dealing with nyeri joints to injuries that occur in several parts of the body, especially in the knee. When they have aches, sprains, or even accidents and suffer broken bones, not a few people choose to get massages as the main solution.

But, is it permissible and safe to sort out joint pain problems?

Medical rehabilitation specialist at the Flex Free Clinic, Ferius Soewito, said that there is no prohibition against going to masseuse or massage therapists for treatment. But it’s best if you go to the massage therapist for a medical examination to find out the type of injury or even a wound that might be in the problematic part of the body.

“Medical examination is still important, but that doesn’t mean we are anti-masseurs, we can be massaged as long as there are no injuries or bone shifts or inflammation,” said Ferius in a media briefing held by the Flex Free Clinic: Overcoming Knee Pain Without Surgery at the Des Indes Hotel, Jakarta Center, some time ago.

Any health problems that occur in the body must be medically enforced before taking action. If there are no indications of danger, the doctor will of course advise the patient to take the easiest treatment, one of which is massage.

However, if there are injuries or injuries that are severe enough, then action must be taken. One of them is treating the wound on the skin or the injured part of the body first.

Meanwhile, when you go to a massage therapist for treatment, this certainly won’t be done. In fact, if there is a wound and it is not treated it can cause infection. The most extreme thing, the patient even had to do an amputation.

“I once had a patient, at first he just sprained, then went to a massage therapist. He was given a potion and then wrapped his sprained leg for a month. It turned out that there was a wound, the wound was infected, as soon as it was opened it was black and rotten, inevitably it was amputated,” he said.

The following are the characteristics of injuries that cannot be massaged:

1. Pain due to trauma

If your knee or any organ feels painful due to trauma, you should not immediately take it to a masseuse. Because, trauma such as falls, accidents or other things can cause external injuries. If left untreated it will become an infection.

2. Have comorbidities

If you have comorbidities and experience pain in your knees or any part of your body, you should not massage them. Because this can affect other co-morbidities and can cause complications.

“For example, if you have diabetes or kidney disease, you should not get it sorted, because it can exacerbate the disease you are suffering from. Why are they related? Because the joints in the body are interrelated, so they must be handled carefully,” he said.

3. Elderly

When the elderly complain of bone pain, joint pain or other body parts, you should not massage them. Because the joint and muscle performance has begun to decrease, instead of being sorted it is better to take it to the doctor for an in-depth examination.

“The point is not to seek treatment carelessly, everything must be enforced first, the management is first known, then the cause is known, then treatment is carried out according to the problem at hand,” he said regarding injuries that could not be sorted.

(tst/pua)