Great improvements from massage, an update

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In December, I posted about the tremendous benefit I recieved to one of my worst symptoms, chest pain, through self massage of the chest.

4 months later, I wanted to post an update that the improvements to the chest pain have maintained and are perhaps even better than in December

I have also found a great benefit in massaging other areas. I have had success with some symptoms of orthostatic intolerance ("scalp tingling," funny head feelings) via massaging the muscles of the head and leg shaking via massaging various muscles on the legs.

This has probably been one of the best treatments I have found in terms of benefit and of course cost/side effects!

As far as my method, I search for sore areas on the muscle and then massage these areas only for just a few seconds at a time, but like a dozen times a day. Results seem to take days to weeks.

I have found that it helps to experiment putting the target muscles in different positions until finding the best positioning in which to massage. For example I found I had to open my jaw fairly wide and let it relax to massage one spot near my ears.

I often don't even notice the muscles are sore until I try to massage, which is why it took so long to figure this out. I.e. my legs felt shaky but not that achey.

Since others don't seem to have had such a profound response to massage, I wonder if I just have some abnormal pathophysiology behind my illness. Anyway, I hope this helps someone.

As a disclaimer I have no expertise in this area and am just sharing my experiences. Massage can probably be dangerous if done wrong? So exercise caution