Can tui na cause osteoporosis

  Xiao Wang’s mother, who is in her 40s, often suffers from back pain, and her pain is relieved after taking blood-stasis-boosting medicine, but it often recurs. Xiao Wang has suggested her to go to the hospital for massage treatment several times, but her mother has heard people say that frequent massage will lead to osteoporosis, so she has been afraid to go.  In daily outpatient clinics, we often encounter middle-aged and elderly people who worry that too much massage will lead to osteoporosis. Even if people around them have achieved good results through Tui Na, they are often wary of Tui Na therapy.  Tui Na therapy is a non-drug therapy in Chinese medicine. In the pre-Qin Dynasty, people used Tui Na to prevent diseases and strengthen the body. Today, with modern medicine becoming more and more developed, the side effects of drugs have become more and more of a concern, and natural therapies such as acupuncture, tui na, and physical therapy have been promoted and applied to a great extent.  The mechanism of Tui Na treatment for chronic low back pain is that by relaxing the tense low back muscles, local blood circulation is accelerated, metabolic deposits and pain-causing substances are discharged from the body through blood circulation, protective muscle spasm is reduced, and nerve pressure is improved, thus achieving the effect of relieving muscle spasm and eliminating pain.  Primary osteoporosis is a systemic bone disease characterized by a decrease in bone mass and degeneration of bone microstructure, resulting in increased bone fragility and susceptibility to fracture. The easiest and most effective way to avoid osteoporosis is to enhance exercise and increase calcium intake.  Thus, from the point of view of the pathogenesis of osteoporosis, pushing will not have an effect on osteoporosis. Active exercise has a vital role in the absorption and retention of calcium in the body, while pushing is only a passive exercise of the body, which will not affect the metabolism of calcium in the body. It is unlikely that elderly people who lack exercise for a long time can delay osteoporosis and reduce calcium loss by means of massage therapy. It is also incorrect to insist that long-term massage will cause osteoporosis.