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What's the difference between spa and massage?

Spa and massage, SPA is the abbreviation of Greek SOLUSPARAQUA, which means health in water. It means that people use natural water resources combined with bathing, massage and aromatherapy to promote metabolism, satisfy people's vision, taste, touch, smell and thinking, and achieve a kind of physical and mental enjoyment. Massage belongs to a small category of SPA.

Matters needing attention in massage

Keep your hands clean all the time when you massage, and don't wear any decorations when you massage, so as not to hurt the skin of the massager. Before massage, in order to achieve good results, the massager should relax all over, pay attention to the direction of massage, and massage along the direction of blood and lymph reflux, and the intensity should be from light to heavy.

Generally speaking, there are acute infectious diseases, acute osteomyelitis, tuberculous arthritis, infectious skin diseases, skin eczema, fire and water burns, skin ulcers, tumors and various sores.

In addition, women's menstrual period, pregnant women who are pregnant for more than five months, patients with acute peritonitis, acute suppurative peritonitis and acute appendicitis. Some are too weak after a long illness, have serious cardiovascular diseases, or are old and weak. These people are forbidden to massage.