Massage to Reduce Fatigue Symptoms

Video Transcript

"DR. SUSAN JEWELL: Hello. My name is Dr. Susan Jewell and on behalf of Expert Village today, I'm going to talk to you about how to recognize fatigue and also ways to reduce the symptoms of fatigue. Now, fatigue is a common ailment that most people and patients come in and complaint about and it can be caused by many different things. Now, one of the things that could cause fatigue is also lack of exercise and a sedentary life or just the fact that if you're working 9 to 5 in the office and you're hours behind the computer or you live a sedentary life by watching TV all day long, that's going to put you prone to getting fatigue because you're lacking exercise and you become amotivational, so one way I use is to do a massage. If you're lucky enough to have a significant other or a friend who would give you a massage, that would be a good thing because massaging will help to increase the circulation and flow and oxygen to the body, and especially to the head if you do a head message, to decrease the symptoms of fatigue. And here, you can buy these devices. Here is a very heavy duty massager and implement, but nowadays you can buy a smaller portable massage vibrator such that you can put in your bag so you can use in the office or when you're out on the road and out and about. And yeah, these massages needs to--obviously, they all have different ways but basically it's to reduce tension and to reduce stress and to increase blood circulation to distribute more evenly over the body and also to help you reduce the symptoms of fatigue."