In Thailand, a young singer who had three sessions of massage at a local massage parlour, which included neck twisting, had died from blood poisoning and an autopsy was needed to determine the actual facts of her death, the provincial health chief said according to the report of Bangkok Post.
The twenty-year-old Chayada Prao-hom, aka Ping Chayada, died on December 8, 2 months after she visited a massage parlour in Udon Thani for a massage because of pain in her neck and shoulders, according to her family, as told by Dr. Somchaichote Piyawatwela to the reporters.
After two days the young woman complained of pain in the back of her neck and took painkillers, but then a week later Chayada complained of numbness in her arm and returned to the same massage parlour. She received a massage from the same masseuse, according to Dr. Somchaichote.
Two weeks later, Chayada complained of stiffness and was unable to lie face down. She returned to the same place and was given a massage by a different woman. Later on, Chayada reported feeling a tingling, heat and itching in her fingers and numbness in her right leg, the doctor said.
On Oct 30, she went to the Hospital for treatment for her neck pain and was referred to another Hospital, where she was given medication on Nov 1. But then on Nov 4, she returned to the Hospital as her condition persisted but was referred to two different hospitals.
Chayada stayed in the hospital from Nov 6 to 11. During this time she suffered severe leg and neck pain and was unable to move her limbs. She wrote on her Facebook account on Nov 6 that the massage included neck twisting.
Examinations showed she did not have a broken neck bone but suffered transverse myelitis, which was a neurological disorder resulting from an inflamed spinal cord, Dr Somchaichote said. She received medication, recovered and was discharged.
On Nov 18, Chayada again suffered stiffness, along with a seizure. She was rushed to the hospital and on Nov 22 was moved to an intensive care unit at a different hospital.
On Dec 8, she died from septicemia, Dr Somchaichote said.
“Police and (her family) are in a position to take action to determine if her death was linked in any way to the massage, and public health officials are ready to cooperate with any autopsy if relatives want it,” the doctor said.
Dr Somchaichote said when the reporters asked for the cause of the blood poisoning, that Chayada had been bed-ridden for a time and there were many possible causes, not further elaborating.
The provincial health chief said the massage parlour involved in the case, and all seven masseuses that worked there, were licensed.
An advisor from Rangsit University’s College of Oriental Medicine, Prof. Dr. Thiravat Hemachudha, cautioned that twisting the neck or massaging the cervical spine could result in paralysis.
If done incorrectly, he warned that these actions could increase the risk of damaging the blood vessel walls supplying the brain, particularly in the back, leading to tearing and potentially causing brain tissue death, hemiplegia, and paralysis.
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