Application of massage in skin hypersensitivity

Abstract

Introduction: The dysfunction of the reception, analysis and responding to sensory impulses may refer to many areas such as superficial and deep cutaneous feeling, temperature and motor orientation in space. Over and under sensitivity can be found in healthy and sick children, for example, with Asperger’s syndrome. The symptom may also affect the adults with diabetes in whom oversensitivity to touch appears as a complication. Excessive reaction of the human body to touch is the reason of abnormal motor development in children. In adult persons this might disturb regular, every day activities. In other cases it can make physiotherapy impossible. Material and methods: The classical massage was performed to a patient with many disease symptoms and varied complications to reduce hypersensitivity to touch and decrease pain. We used superficial stroking but the most important was the intensiveness and the direction of the strokes. The purpose of the massage was to reduce the hyperesthesia of the skin and decrease pain in the area of the patient’s feet, ankles and calves.Results: After the massage the reduction of hyperesthesia and decrease in pain were achieved which made the continuation of another form of physiotherapy possible.Conclusions: We can use the massage, because it is an effective therapy in the dysfunction of the superficial receptors on the skin. After the massage we decrease the pain in the diseased area, where the disorder of feeling appears. The massage can serve as an introductory part to another kind of physiotherapy, individual for every patient.