Contraindications to massage

• Massage is not recommended at any infectious disease of an external integument, with an antithesis or not cured wound.
• It is necessary to avoid massage right after surgical operation or if you have predilection to formation of thromboses in blood vessels.
• Illnesses such as phlebitis or varicose veins exclude use of massage.
• Never apply massage immediately at bruises, combustions or infected damages, at serious damages of tissues, or to places of recent traumas.
• Massage is not recommended for cancer patient's right after to chemotherapy or radial therapy. Though firmly it is not proved, that massage stimulates occurrence and body height of metastasizes, the theoretical opportunity of it exists.
• Avoid massage in the field of any known tumors, and in any area with a recent surgical cut.
• Massage of belly area is recommended to be carried out not less than in two hours after meal and if you have a belly hernia, avoid therapy by means of massage completely.
• Belly massage needs to be avoided strictly also within first three months of pregnancy; massage of legs and a foot during this period also is inexpedient. Consult with your doctor before any massage during pregnancy.
• At last, if you suffer from attacks of a panic or have been subject to sexual violence, you can count, that any kinds of therapy by means of massage not for you.

• Massage can aggravate an existing edema.
• Pressure which massage renders on integuments of a body can be morbid for the one who has damages of a nerve.