Neck cracking and massages: How can we protect ourselves from potential injuries?
A Thai woman's death has been linked to massaging the neck. What does it mean for you if you regularly go for massages? What about your habit of twisting or cracking your neck for relief?
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If you love having massages, you’ll want to read this. A Thai woman reportedly died after receiving massages that also involved neck twisting.
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According to Bangkok Post, her symptoms did not improve. Two days later, she complained of pain in the back of her neck and took painkillers. But her troubles didn’t stop there. A week later, the singer developed numbness in her arm and went back to the massage parlour for a second session.
When she developed stiffness and was unable to lie face down two weeks later, she returned to the same place for her third massage. She had also felt “tingling, heat and itching in her fingers and numbness in her right leg”, according to Bangkok Post.
s said to have received three massages in Udon Thani province, the first of which was in October, for her neck and shoulder pain.
The singer was eventually diagnosed with an inflamed spinal cord after several rounds of hospital visits and a period of hospital stay. On her second hospitalisation for stiffness and seizure, she died from blood poisoning. The Thai authorities are determining if the massages are linked in any way to her death.
In the meantime, are neck massages off the table? Should you avoid any form of neck manipulation, even if it’s by a chiropractor? What about the neck cracking you sometimes do to relieve a stiff neck? We find out from the experts.
WHY IS IT POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS TO MANIPULATE THE NECK IN ANY WAY?
That’s because "the neck is the highway between the brain and the rest of the body", said Dr Ang Kian Chuan, an orthopaedic surgeon with OrthoSports Orthopaedic Surgery and Sports Medici
