Does Deep Tissue Massage hurt ?
By Bridget Jones.This is a very common question: Does Deep Tissue Massage hurt?
In simple terms. Some clients like more pressure than others. As you are the paying client you have a right to ask for less pressure or more pressure.
Deep Tissue Massage should not be painful or leave you bruised, although some people do believe that it should hurt to receive the benefits. Overall it is your right to communicate to your therapist that your massage is to much pressure, or not enough.
Deep Tissue Massage is not meant to be so deep that you are unable to speak. Always speak up if its to much pressure. Same goes if the therapist is to light.
Deep Tissue Massage is of course a deeper massage, and therefore it is designed to provide more pressure. Ideally with slower techniques to reach the deeper layers of muscle. Deep Tissue Massage is absolutely fantastic in aiding with Chronic (long term) pain issues. Such as your tight neck and shoulders. You may even have that niggling lower back or hip issue that just doesn’t seem to go away. Its scientifically proven that Deep Tissue Massage decreased pain by 48.4% as shown in this study.
“Everyone has different pain thresholds”
You see everyone has different pain thresholds. When one asks “Does Deep Tissue Hurt” one can not say that it does or does not.
Yes, Deep Tissue Massage is designed to provide more pressure to flush out the muscles. However at the end of the day, we, as Massage Therapists work to the pressure level of our clients requests.
To explain on a pain level lets say 1 being of no pain a 10 of being to much pressure, you should be sitting at a 6 to 7 on the scale. Which of course to everyone this varies. Of course some clients do prefer more pressure. This is when our elbows come out to play.
If this is your first time receiving a Deep Tissue Massage your therapist in any Massage business should be understanding to this. At several times during the massage you should be asked about the pressure level. Of course at anytime if its too much pressure, do speak up straight away. Remember that you are paying for this service and that you have every right to speak up and say.
Many coaches, athletes and sports medicine personnel hold the belief, based on observations and experiences, that massage can provide several benefits to the body such as increased blood flow, reduced muscle tension and an increased sense of well-being.
If interested read more in The Mechanisms of Massage and Effects on Performance, Muscle Recovery and Injury Prevention.
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