Just had time to read through this. I’m sorry you had to go through this. I’m glad that you’re on the mend and hopefully you’ll be back to where you were plus more.
I'm sorry to hear about your experience, Noa. It sounds like you went through a really tough time. I hope you're feeling better now and that your recovery continues smoothly. It's frustrating when a positive step like seeking preventative treatment ends up causing more harm than good. Your story serves as a reminder that sometimes things don't go as planned, but it's important to stay resilient and keep moving forward. Thank you for sharing your journey with us, and I wish you all the best as you continue your recovery.
I'm dismayed to read about this unnecessary and difficult experience. Thank you for sharing the details, for others to learn from. Sounds like you are finding your way back to good health, good for you. I wish you all the best as you continue to recover and will be thinking of you.
This is a condition called neurapraxia of which there are two types: axonotmesis and neurotmesis.
You really only learn which is which by the rate of recovery; neurotmesis takes about 12 weeks to recover while axonotmesis can recover much quicker, sometimes in days to weeks.
Excessive lengthening of the connective tissue, which you see with overstretching, especially of the sciatic nerve, can also occur.
Massage therapists have been known to tear the long thoracic nerve with vigorous or aggressive scapular mobilization.
The long thoracic nerve is a pure motor nerve and, since there is no or only mild pain, the serratus anterior muscle will go flaccid with minimal symptoms.
Another injury that occurs in massage therapy clinics, especially with “deep massage” (which is, IMO, dangerous, unnecessary and traumatic) is damage to the deep venous structures of the soleus and gastrocnemius soft tissues.
This can result in Deep Vein Thrombosis, embolus formation, pulmonary edema and death.
These events can happen in a physical therapy clinic.
Just had time to read through this. I’m sorry you had to go through this. I’m glad that you’re on the mend and hopefully you’ll be back to where you were plus more.
I'm sorry to hear about your experience, Noa. It sounds like you went through a really tough time. I hope you're feeling better now and that your recovery continues smoothly. It's frustrating when a positive step like seeking preventative treatment ends up causing more harm than good. Your story serves as a reminder that sometimes things don't go as planned, but it's important to stay resilient and keep moving forward. Thank you for sharing your journey with us, and I wish you all the best as you continue your recovery.
I'm dismayed to read about this unnecessary and difficult experience. Thank you for sharing the details, for others to learn from. Sounds like you are finding your way back to good health, good for you. I wish you all the best as you continue to recover and will be thinking of you.
This is a condition called neurapraxia of which there are two types: axonotmesis and neurotmesis.
You really only learn which is which by the rate of recovery; neurotmesis takes about 12 weeks to recover while axonotmesis can recover much quicker, sometimes in days to weeks.
Excessive lengthening of the connective tissue, which you see with overstretching, especially of the sciatic nerve, can also occur.
Massage therapists have been known to tear the long thoracic nerve with vigorous or aggressive scapular mobilization.
The long thoracic nerve is a pure motor nerve and, since there is no or only mild pain, the serratus anterior muscle will go flaccid with minimal symptoms.
Another injury that occurs in massage therapy clinics, especially with “deep massage” (which is, IMO, dangerous, unnecessary and traumatic) is damage to the deep venous structures of the soleus and gastrocnemius soft tissues.
This can result in Deep Vein Thrombosis, embolus formation, pulmonary edema and death.
These events can happen in a physical therapy clinic.
The incidence is rare, but it does happen.