Mr. Ye was a patient I received at the outpatient clinic, and the family came pushing a wheelchair. Mr. Ye's low back pain for half a year, gradually aggravated, because there was a lumbar disc herniation problem before, I thought that it might be an old problem, so I went to a private massage clinic to do massage, and the result was a big incident, walking to Mr. Ye, who went to massage, found that the lower limbs were weak and could not walk after half an hour. The staff panicked, rushed to the hospital, did lumbar spine CT, found that his lumbar spine was damaged locally, hospitalized for further examination, and confirmed that the lung cancer lumbar spine metastasis. Unfortunately, Mr. Ye was never able to stand up again.
Acupuncture, massage, and tuina are very important means of treating diseases in traditional medicine in China, and many rehabilitation patients need these methods to assist in the recovery of limb function. The principle of acupuncture is to stimulate the acupuncture points to dredge the meridians, and the same is true for massage, which promotes the operation of the body's qi and blood.
Can cancer patients do acupuncture and massage?
This should be divided into the type of cancer patient, if the cancer has undergone radical surgery, it is possible to massage during the recovery period. Massage is mainly to activate blood stasis, relieve fatigue, relax muscles. Moreover, psychological adjustments can be made and massaged appropriately, which is conducive to the physical and mental health of patients.
However, if it is a cancer patient with a tumor in the body, acupuncture and massage should be very careful, and the medical history must be asked first. For example, if a tumor patient has bone metastasis, it is easy to induce a rational fracture after massage, and if there are enlarged lymph nodes or subcutaneous nodules on the surface of the patient's body, after massage or acupuncture, it may promote the metastasis of the tumor, especially the needle passage metastasis of the tumor. Some patients may be infected by acupuncture, resulting in delayed treatment, so it is generally not recommended for tumor patients with tumors.
Then someone asked, I can't stand the pain, the massage seems to be more comfortable, is the cancer pain massage really effective?
Cancer pain is ineffective by massage, some patients may be in a specific area of pain outbreak, through the massage of this mechanical compression or mechanical movement, can temporarily relieve the occurrence of pain, and divert attention, it seems that the pain is not so intense. In fact, massage does not play much role in cancer pain, and cancer pain still requires the standardized use of analgesic drugs. For patients with bone metastases, massage is also very dangerous, just like Mr. Ye, massage causes spinal and spinal cord injury, and irreversible nerve damage causes paraplegia.
Cancer patients due to hypercoagulable blood, the risk of venous thrombosis is 6 times higher than that of non-cancer patients, especially the incidence of deep vein thrombosis in the lower extremities is very high. Lower extremity thrombosis itself is not terrible, but if the embolus falls off, it will flow into the whole body with blood circulation, blocking the coronary vein, causing myocardial infarction, blocking in the pulmonary artery will cause pulmonary embolism, and entering the brain will cause cerebral infarction. If you do not know that the lower limb has a blood clot, randomly massaging the lower limb is likely to cause the embolus to fall off, causing serious problems. Therefore, for patients with advanced cancer, when the family members help them massage the lower limbs, it must be clear that there is no deep vein thrombosis, which can be determined by a vascular ultrasound. In addition, patients with poor coagulation function, patients with bleeding tendencies, and mechanical stimulation during acupuncture and massage may induce bleeding.
In short, massage or acupuncture are at risk for patients with advanced cancer. For patients who have undergone radical surgery, recovered well and are sure that there is no recurrence of metastases, massage and acupuncture are OK.