Breast tenderness during the period is pretty common. You may feel that the best thing to do is to leave your breasts alone, but actually there are ways you can use massage to relieve breast tenderness. And knowing how to massage sore breasts is the key to the relief of the tenderness during your menstrual period or PMS.

Interestingly, with so much breast cancer, it makes one wonder if there’s a relationship between lack of touching the breasts and the rates of breast cancer.

The U.S. is one of the only countries where many massage clinics have a rule that the breast is taboo for massage.

However, in other cultures, breast massage is a natural component of body massages, such as in Lomi Lomi massage and Ayurvedic massage.

How you feel about breast massage is tied into your attitudes about sexuality and health.

You may wonder, is it good to massage sore breasts when it hurts so much?

The answer is that if you massage them correctly, there will be an increase in lymphatic drainage, and as a result, some of the swelling may be alleviated.

Here’s the method for sore breasts relief massage:

• Starting at the ribcage of the right breast, lightly rub upwards into the arm pit where the lymph glands drain.

• Then use circular motions around the clavicle (collar bone).

• Next, with the left hand start at the top left part of the right breast and rub gently in a circular motion on the outside part of the entire breast, ending at the rib cage.

• Then stroke upwards again into the armpit.

• Repeat on the other breast in a similar motion.

Breast massage is gentle and never is deep tissue massage.

By the way, you’ll find that the answer to the question, does massage help sore breast tenderness is yes.

You can also do yoga for sore breasts. However there aren’t any specific yoga poses for breast tenderness. Most likely it’s the breathing exercises of yoga that will help oygenate the tissues of the breast and then help relieve the pain.

One of the smartest moves you’ll make if you have breast tenderness is to take a period vitamin. This is a vitamin specially designed for women who are in the childbearing years and have their period. During these years, your nutritional needs differ from other years such as before your period starts and during menopause, or during pregnancy or lactation.

The period vitamin also contains herbs that normalize the reproductive hormones, since many PMS symptoms are due to hormone imbalance.

By taking a period vitamin, you’ll hit the root cause of the breast tenderness – the hormone imbalances and/or vitamin and mineral deficiencies. So do consider taking a period vitamin today.