Indian Head Massage -1/6

Anne Tocknell Therapist
Sue Hosler Narrator

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• Indian
• Head
• Massage
• Swedish
• Deep
• Tissue

[brinjalibrinjali]

once again you have excelled - thanks kezzielegs!

[KajiCarson]

Come, such comments are hardly fitting.

[anaemia]

@TransitiveSam I'm not saying that massage is beneficial. I find them quite helpful when suffering from insomnia and stress. But to say that it's a medical procedure is just incorrect. I wouldn't have a problem with these videos if they cut the bullshit and just showed them for what they are - relaxation treatments. But they insist on adding in this alternative medicine angle and misusing terms like "scientifically", which is where the problem lies, because people believe it.

[TransitiveSam]

@anaemia Ah, now you've gone a bit wrong: Actually, the benefits of massage are well-documented by scientific means. It lowers both blood pressure and cortisol levels. Yes, so does holding a purring cat or listening to classical music, but don't make the mistake of calling something unbeneficial when you merely mean that it's unexceptional.

[TransitiveSam]

@anaemia P.S. Even with the normal double-blind, placebo controlled restrictions in place, acupuncture still did better than placebo in an NIH-sponsored test, especially for things like allergies and smoking cessation. While I do agree with you that most "alternative medicine" is a total crock, the older, more established traditions (like acupuncture) do appear to be sometimes/somewhat beneficial, even if they are based on fallacious understanding of physiology by our scientific standards.

[TransitiveSam]

@anaemia To a large degree you are right, but even the NIH has said that the problem is that it's very difficult to design testing protocols for treatment modalities that are highly subjective in their application. For instance, it's easy to study a vaccine: it's the same ingredients, the same dose, given the same way to a homogenous group of patients. But how do you test a procedure that must be - by definition - altered to fit each patient, moreover, how that patient is feeling on that day?

[anaemia]

@loneturtle1 If there is so much "genuine science" to support things like acupressure, chi and energy lines, then name one peer-reviewed study in one respectable journal that supports it. BTW, "energy levels" and such defy the laws of physics. There is no science in this, just pseudoscience.

[outforbl00d]

Mee-grain? Just no.

[loneturtle1]

@Bjdeezy Which is it? Big ass or forehead?

[loneturtle1]

@LilasRose1973 Yeah... they decided it would be best not to show the part where the therapist smashes the client over the head with a plank. The rest of the massage is very pleasant though.

[loneturtle1]

@anaemia Er... actually, there is more genuine science to support this than there is to support the benefits of pharmaceuticals. What does Glaxo SmithKline, Roche, Novartis and Pfizer have in common? Apart from being the world's largest pharmaceutical companies, they also share the fact that they have all been fined millions of dollars for falsifying drug test results. So much for the "science", eh?

[anaemia]

@Terra1311 There is no evidence that acupuncture has any medical benefit other than that of a placebo.

And the benefits of massage are confined purely to purely physical therapy, and as a remedy for depression. There is no science behind this. They misused the word in order to medically legitimise something that is purely pleasurable.