It is not recommended to massage patients with postherpetic neuralgia, postherpetic neuralgia massage is not effective, massage generally needles muscle soft tissue pain, such as shoulder pain, low back pain and other muscle soft tissue pain, massage effect is better. Postherpetic neuralgia belongs to neuralgia, mainly because of the continuous discharge of nerves, most patients with postherpetic neuralgia appear touch-induced pain, that is, the pain is intense after gently touching, at this time and then massage leads to increased pain in patients. Most patients mistakenly believe that massage is the best way to treat pain, because there is no trauma and the operation is relatively simple, in the family can be treated, but massage is not effective for neuralgia, massage is mainly for the pain of the pillow, frozen shoulder, low back and other pain, so postherpetic neuralgia massage is not effective, only aggravate the pain.