Sinusitis is definitely a dangerous disease that should be treated by a qualified ENT, but one of the methods of relieving symptoms caused by this disease is sinus massage, which will help restore nasal breathing, activate metabolic processes and improve vascular circulation to get rid of unpleasant feelings when you are left with the problem on your own. In this article, you will learn about Sinus Massage: 3 Techniques to Relieve Pain.
Massage of the sinuses is used in the following cases:
- In the initial stages of the development of maxillary sinusitis.
- In the case of an acute course or chronic form.
- At recovery in case of residual manifestations of the disease.
Favorable therapeutic effect has a therapeutic massage of the biologically active points with the joint conduction of physical therapy procedures: electrophoresis and other techniques for treating maxillary sinusitis, which can appoint an experienced doctor.
Performing therapeutic massage for maxillary sinusitis
- Exercise one. Sitting or lying down, place your thumbs inside your mouth, on your gums near your last molars (the back teeth) and gently move your fingers apart, as if to keep the two halves of your face apart. Very little spreading is held until there is a sensation of inner relaxation in the mouth; this takes on average six to sixty seconds.
- Exercise two. Sitting or lying down, place the thumb of your right hand inside your mouth, cushioning it over your upper palate at the midline suture-it is easy to feel on the upper palate-to press lightly on the suture and slide it forward to the gap between your upper teeth and backward to the little bump on the back of the suture. Do this 4-5 times, and then use your finger to explore the area around the seam: you will find miniature indentations and bumps there. Hold your finger in the dimples for a moment until you feel an internal relaxation under your finger; this takes an average of 7 to 20 seconds.
- Exercise three. Sitting at the table, place the forearm of your right hand with your elbow on the table and place your thumb in your mouth, cushioned on the tubercle that is located at the back of the medial suture on the upper palate. It is easy to find; it looks like a grain of millet. Having felt the tubercle and placed the pad of your thumb on it, you should slightly lower your head onto your finger, just barely pressing on this tubercle. So hold for 6 seconds, release, pause for 12 seconds, then compress again, and such cycles from 3 to 15, until the feeling of internal relaxation in the mouth or in the face; it takes, on average, from 6 to 10 repetitions of seconds.