#MASSAGE THERAPY

[madlori]

My ankle journey

I am sharing this with all you good people on the dash because I am so fucking mad it took so long for me to learn it and if I can spare one (1) person the agony it will be worth it.

So for like...oh, 8 or 9 months, I've been struggling with pain/inflammation/tendinitis in my left Achilles tendon. I don't know what caused it. It just started up (welcome to middle age, this shit happens). It wasn't severe enough to be debilitating, but it was annoying and limiting. It was also intermittent, in that some days it would be very painful and other days hardly at all. The kind of shoe I was wearing affected it a lot.

Now, I have bone spurs on both heels (it's just a thing that happens as you get older sometimes). I'm also aware that heel pain is usually the result of tight calf muscles that pull and irritate the tendon. I tried stretching that calf muscle. You know the stretch, this bitch right here:

I did it all the time. I also iced the ankle after walking for awhile, hoping to avoid inflammation. Results were...unsatisfying.

I went to:

A chiropractor

A podiatrist

A physical therapist

A bodywork coach

They all gave me some variation on the "strengthen your calf muscle, stretch your calf muscle" advice. I continued doing this without results.

I was getting frustrated, and a little afraid that this was just my life now. Finally, I thought...maybe some targeted massage might help. I asked for rec on a local FB site and was pointed to a woman who specializes in therapeutic massage including cupping, etc.

I went to her a week ago.

She spent over half our first session working on my left lower leg. Within about 10 minutes of making my eyes water, she uttered the sentence I did not know I had been waiting to hear:

"Oh, it's your soleus."

Excuse me, what?

"It's your soleus that's the culprit. It's all tied up and stiff." She started digging into it and I felt literal sparks run up my leg as she released adhesions and got the muscle moving a little. When she finally put the leg down, it felt like it was on fire with all the blood rushing into it.

She said, "You'll need to stretch your soleus. It'll clear up, but it'll take a bit of time - tendons take ages to heal."

But I HAVE been stretching.

"No, you haven't. The usual straight-leg calf stretch only stretches the gastrocnemius, that's the big belly muscle in your calf. That's not your problem. That stretch doesn't stretch the soleus. Don't worry, I'll show you how to stretch it."

My mind is spinning.

So here are the muscles in question:

The gastroc (as the pros call it) just attaches down the back but the soleus runs underneath it from the knee around the side to the heel. The lower part above the ankle is where it typically gets tight and forms adhesions.

To stretch it, you do the same calf thing where you put your foot back and press your heel to the ground, but you have to do it with your KNEE BENT:

The bent knee keeps the gastroc from engaging. It's one of those selfish muscles (like traps) - if you give it an inch, it'll just take over and prevent other muscles from working or stretching. There are other ways to stretch the soleus but this is the easiest and you can literally do it anywhere. I've been doing it while standing and waiting for things (the elevator to come, the toast to toast). You just put the heel back and bend the knee. It's kind of like curtseying.

The minute I did this stretch, I could FEEL where it was pulling on my tendon. I knew that THIS had been the problem.

The massage therapist also told me to stop icing my heel. She said icing is for an acute injury, but a more chronic aggravation needs heat, to increase blood flow for healing. She recommended elevation with heat every day (I've been doing it in bed during "phone before bed" time).

I have been doing the soleus stretch at least half a dozen times a day for almost a week, and the ankle is at least 70% better. It is still a little tight and tender, but the improvement is significant. I think a few more weeks will have it feeling normal.

I am...blown away by this. This massage therapist was able to pinpoint an issue in only a few minutes that eluded all the other professionals I saw. I can't wait to go back to her and have her solve all my other problems, tbh.

[rachysstuff]

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[wordslikesilver]

I need to share this absolutely insane thing that just happened to me at work omg. I’m a registered massage therapist, I’m trans, I’m like 5 years on HRT and lazy about bothering with makeup at work, my first patient of the day is this like old lady in her 70s. Once she’s on the table, first thing she does as I’m grabbing this and that is ask me “By the way are you trans?” Oh boy here we go I’m thinking to myself. Yes, I am a trans woman I tell her and girls, if my wife wasn’t the sunlight of my life, I think this patient right here would’ve been my biggest fan of all time, hands down. She’s telling me I’m drop dead gorgeous, over and over that I should do modelling, she’s telling me with the deepest pride about her husband’s trans friend, can’t stop misgendering her but truly does her best to correct herself. She’s telling me this is the best massage she’s ever had in her life, about all these trans celebrities she adores, how beautiful she thinks people like me are for living my truth, asking just the most inappropriately personal questions ever, I’m just taking it in stride because I’m way too open of a book, it’s on and on like that the whole treatment. She’s tells me she saw a trans woman for the first time ever when she’s was 20 and couldn’t stop staring at how beautiful she was, chat I s2g this is where I started wondering does this woman have kink for trans women, is she coming on to me, I have met people who were falling apart at the seams with lust for me that didn’t sing my praises and butter me up like this old lady did, like this woman sounded straight up dtf. Chaser grandma sliding into my DMs, accidentally exposing her breasts to me multiple times on the table because she doesn’t seem to get what the sheet is for and shame left her body two decades ago. She assured me she’ll be booking another appointment with me in the new year. Asks if I have a pic of myself in full makeup, ofc my vain ass does, I show her some favs from my phone and she might as well think I’m Aphrodite in the flesh. How do I even process this entire series of events. Homies I am 24. What the fuck. 10/10 can’t wait to treat this insane woman again.

[brian-in-finance]

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[zatudun]

Hello! Is anyone out there?

I used to be on here every day from 2012 until they banned smut. I got onto tik tok afterwards and built a small community, but now it looks like it’s getting banned so I’m here again to see if it’s worth posting.

A little about me;

I am 26, nonbinary, lesbian. currently in school for massage therapy (yay!). I work at a sex store while I’m in school. I am a Luciferian Witch. Super into my spirituality, past life regression, deity and spirt work, tarot reading, and more. I am also really into goth fashion and music. I love to collect oddities and bones. I also do art sometimes.

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[nickmassage]

Asian guy receiving professional massage

[dreamydespair]

Therapist

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[stele3]

I’m reviewing traditional Chinese medicine and Tui-Na massage for part of my required CEUs, and I’d forgotten that my textbook has a model with a very prominent dick.

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[ahedderick]

Ouch

I usually go see a very nice massage therapist every month to try to keep my pain levels under control. Due to one thing and another, however, I missed seeing her earlier this month, and by today I was a good three weeks 'late' compared to my usual schedule. My shoulder has been excruciating the last couple of weeks, and I've literally been counting the days 'til I saw her.

Picture a very short, stocky, lovely, sixtyish blond with incredible cheekbones and a grandmotherly vibe. When she laid hands on my neck and shoulder she, politely, expressed some Feelings about the state I was in. She then proceeded to beat me within an inch of my life (therapeutically) trying to loosen the crunchy muscles and unhappy connective tissue. It hurt, at times, almost more than I could bear.

If you're wondering, Yes, I HAVE asked an actual doctor about this. Three times, in fact. My pcp is actually a DO (Dr of osteopathic med) instead of an MD, because I thought someone with a focus on, you know, joints and bones would be a good fit for me, the woman with a long list of old injuries. I can't tell you how much she doesn't CARE about this particular shoulder injury. She did, however, grudgingly order an MRI that I will be having in February. Although she told me that, if it's a rotator cuff problem, there's nothing that can be done to fix it. ?? Anyway.

The dear massage lady has my back (literally) even if no one else does. We shall see how things develop. Right now I'm going to rest it a bit and drink a lot of water.

[worshipfulmercy]

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[rachysstuff]

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[auntymurda]

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[eternalreignblog]

Love the moodboard for your happy endings fic 🩷

Ahhhh thank you 😘

I think it sums up the fic nicely 😏

(Clarke gripping the sheet for dear life while Lexa rides her like a mechnical bull)