The answer varies depending on your reason for having massage. If you are having massage to relax, reduce stress and refresh your spirits, schedule a massage whenever it is convenient for you, as often as you like.
If you are having deep tissue massage, wait at least three days before having the same kind of massage on the same area of the body. Light to moderate pressure massage styles such as Swedish massage or lymph drainage massage are safe every day.
If you are having a therapeutic massage -- for pain or swelling, for instance -- you'll need to talk with your therapist about how long the results last. If you feel better for three days and then the pain comes back, schedule another massage. You'll be able to spread out the time between massages longer and longer as you heal. If you are getting lymph drainage massage for a condition such as lymphedema disease, you'll want to have a massage every day until the results last a full 24 hours. Then you can schedule every other day, until the results last 48 hours, and so on. Conditions such as lymphedema disease respond more slowly than ordinary edema or pain.
About Me
- Lisa L. Ross, HHP
- I have actively practiced as a Holistic Health Practitioner (HHP) and massage therapist since 1993 with special interest and training in the Vodder method of Manual Lymph Drainage (MLD) technique. My experience is with lymphedema disease, edema in general, pre- and post-surgery massage, cosmetic surgery edema and more. My search for a low or non impact movement modality led me to become a certified trainer in the GYROTONIC EXPANSION SYSTEM® I have found it to be a helpful movement modality to stimulate the Lymphatic system and other stagnation out of the body. The Gyrotonic method is the base for movement sessions used at the office. Palliative care is another direction of great interest, as many of my clients are in disease states. My mission is to provide compassionate care and resources for my clients.
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