Gua-Sha Therapy

Gua-Sha Massage is a kind of massage in which the skin is scraped to produce light bruising. I was not aware of this definition when I got it done. I was actually looking for something other than normal body massage. When I opened the Spa Center's website and found this name interesting, and decided to try this one. We called them up to book the appointment, normal body massage for my roommates and Gua-Sha Massage for me. The receptionist told not to shower for minimum 2 hours after the therapy,  I was curious, excited and eager to try this new kind of massage. 

The time came when masseuse started the so-called therapy. I was totally new to this and was not at all having the background on what is this Gua-Sha therapy. It was just normal massage on back for first 5-10 minutes followed by using gua-sha. Gua-Sha is a set of small instruments with smooth edges.





The masseuse applied some kind of gel on my back and started scraping. The scraping needs to be uni-directional as per the theory. The idea is to make the capillaries bleed internally. The main intention of this therapy is to increase the blood circulation in a hard way. The masseuse started scraping one side of my back and since I was not aware of the end result I did not stop her. I thought it is just another kind of massage and let her continue. It was hurting my back but did not stop her. The torture went on for next 45 long minutes, I tipped masseuse and came out. When I sat in my car my back was burning and could not rest my back on my seat. As soon as I came home I looked in the mirror to see the shock of my life. My back was totally reddish brown. I stared at the mirror for a couple of minutes to digest the shock. 

This is my back after the massage







My temper was high and blood pressure increased looking at the bruises. Immediately I opened the laptop to read about this therapy and realized that I was legally, ethically, emotionally, physically fucked. Emotionally because of the shock, it was in every aspect the shock of my life. One thing I learnt the hard way is "Never experiment blindly when we have means to research the thing". Today, if I had spent 10-15 minutes reading about this therapy I would not have chosen this, but I would not have researched this much also. I learnt about Gua-Sha the hard way (Literally). 

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