Contents:
- Medical Video: Salt and Stroke Risk
- What are the risks of stroke while at a spa and beauty salon?
- Wash hair at the salon
- Face massage
- Massage with electronic massage equipment
- Neck and shoulder massage
Medical Video: Salt and Stroke Risk
From an early age, men and women have worked hard to get an attractive physical appearance. Spa treatments for beauty and relaxation can feel as good as taking a short vacation. However, has it occurred to you to try to beautify and pamper yourself to cause a stroke? Although reports of strokes caused by salon and spa techniques are not too common, there is sufficient evidence regarding strokes caused by years of beauty care experts to get the name 'beauty salon stroke syndrome' among the medical community.
What are the risks of stroke while at a spa and beauty salon?
Wash hair at the salon
There are reports of patients who have had a stroke after visiting a hair salon. Research published in the American Journal of Medicine and Rehabilitation seeks to reveal the causes of the "beauty salon stroke syndrome." The study tested 25 volunteers who reported experiencing dizziness after leaving the salon. The results of the study stated dizziness was caused by a decrease in blood flow to the brain caused by neck pressure while on a hair washing bench.
Customers who are provided with soft neck braces during washing hair experience fewer dizzies than those who don't. In addition, there is a decrease in blood flow to the carotid artery during washing of hair on a special bench without soft neck support, and this decrease in blood flow does not occur if the salon uses a neck brace. It is possible that the vertebral artery (located at the back of the neck) is slightly affected as well.
Solution: Avoid salons that don't have a soft and comfortable neck brace. If necessary, bring your own neck support. When dizziness occurs when you are washing your hair, this may be a sign of decreasing blood flow, and therefore it is important to change your position.
Face massage
A rare report of strokes after facial massage shows that traumatic pressure during massage can tear or freeze blood in the blood vessels that supply the brain.
Solution: Ask the therapist to be careful in facial massage techniques and avoid pressure on the blood vessels.
Massage with electronic massage equipment
The use of electronic massage equipment can be responsible for stroke. As with facial massage, this shows that it can cause traumatic injury to the blood vessels in the neck. The pressure from this massage device can tear the blood vessels in the front or back of the neck.
Solution: Increase alertness and caution when you use this massage at home.
Neck and shoulder massage
Shoulder or neck massage can cause strokes due to physical trauma to the blood vessels located in the neck, or even blood vessels located in front of the chest. Although rare, extreme pressure can lead to the production or manipulation of blood clots, which can travel to the brain and stay in the blood vessels of the brain.
Solution: Massage and relaxation methods, including accupressure, shiatsu, reflexology, chiropractic treatment, and other techniques must be carried out by experienced experts. Massage techniques must avoid vascular points.
For home massage, it is important to avoid heavy physical stress, and focus on massage on the bone muscle. Avoid the neck and near the eyes.
Fortunately all of these problems are rare. However, when it comes to beauty and self-indulgence, it is important to remain vigilant about possible complications, and take the steps needed to avoid them.
