Can a bad facial/neck massage lead to bruised or damaged nerves?

[Dominic]

I'm doing a beauty therapy course and some one that was practising on me gave me an extremely bad facial/neck massage where she kept putting alot of force on my face and was being very rough, and instead of just going up to the back of the neck then down and back round the shoulders, she kept going up my neck and bending my ears forward with great force and it hurt alot! I told her it felt uncomfortable but she carried on regardless. That night I got a massive headache, the next day my face was completely numb on the left side, a week later the numbness has died down but I have a very bad head ache now, stabbing and shooting pains in my neck, ear and face and around my eye area. The dr says this will get better in a week! And that my nerves are probably bruised. I wear glasses, however my vision seems more blurry of the past few days. I'm very worried, could the feeling in my face wear off?
P.s believe me it was nothing to do with me not relaxing, she was actually bending my ears. You do not bend someones ears between 15/20 times when giving a facial/neck massage. Lymph node cleansing or not you don't do that.

 

[creed]

hon, a facial & neck massage would not lead to this unless that person has been literally beating on your spine;; when you are very uncomfortable with a 'massage', there is a very strong tendency for you to guard the area;; in doing so, you yourself make those muscles in your neck start yanking on your cervical region & upper shoulders causing a good strong pull on your spine..& trust me, THAT can do far more damage than someone rubbing your neck & ears;; you were WAY too tense, which led to the symptoms you are having now;; but...I gotta say, that area on you is highly sensitive & may just be coming up with some problems iself if this has lingered so long;; relax your shoulders & neck area cuz you've been putting them through quite a bit of abuse already..& hopefully the doc gave you some muscle relaxers;; your BEST bet is to support & relax that whole uper trunk & cervical area..& next time someone decides to massage you..you NEED to be relaxed..or things like this happen;; & if this is a therapy course, you MAY just want to speak to your teacher about this..cuz evidentally some people don't understand the correlation between a tense client & adverse effects..good luck, but you need to repeitively tell your clients to relax & breathe out, esp when they feel tension..& the better you do in class, the better you'll be able to feel that tense response from your clients...& learn to back off @ that time...good luck, but relax..let those shoulders go, let that neck get supported..& try to stop thinking about it...let those muscles relax...

 

[maxmom]

To cause permanent damage she would have to be beating you. But clearly, she needs more practice!

 

[Jaycee Fernandez]

it can only lead to damage skin if your skin is specially treated and if u have skin problems..call a doctor..some skin are really sensitive..hope it helps!