SINGAPORE - After a particularly painful neck massage, a 40-year-old banker from
Singapore suffered a stroke and became a paraplegic consequentially.
Mr Lin claims that his doctors
suspect that the excessive force used in the massage broke a blood vessel and
resulted in a stroke.
He is now deaf in one ear and is
undergoing therapy to regain movement in the left half of his body, Chinese
Daily Lianhe Wanbao reported.
According to the paper, Mr Lin is
an assistant director of a department in a bank, and was in China recently to
visit some friends.
There, he visited a massage
parlour to get a foot massage. Upon the therapist's recommendation, he decided
to try a neck massage instead.
After the massage, he felt okay.
But three days later, he suddenly felt a sharp pain in the left side of his
head, and woke up to find that his left ear was deaf.
He also couldn't move the left
side of his body, and was unsteady in his gait.
He recalled: "I felt very
afraid. It all happened so fast, it was really like a bolt from the blue."
As he was not in condition to be
moved, he could not return home immediately for treatment. Mr Lin was sent to a
hospital in Hong Kong and hospitalised for about two weeks until doctors deemed
him fit for a flight home.
Mr Lin told the Chinese Daily
that his doctors suspect that when he underwent the neck massage, the massage
therapist tore the vascular wall of an artery accidentally by using too much
force.
The damage resulted in the blockage
of the artery passage, causing the blood flow to be disrupted.
YourHealth, AsiaOne
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