A luk thung and mor lam singer died on Sunday morning after receiving three massage sessions, two of which involved neck massage, in the northeastern province of Udon Thani.

Chayada Prao-hom was pronounced dead from a blood infection and brain swelling at about 6am at a hospital ICU in Udon Thani.   

Chayada’s boyfriend said that after a performance on Oct 5 Chayada told him she had a back ache and asked him to take her to a Thai massage shop in Udon Thani.  

“After the massage she started to feel numb on half of her body and could not use her left arm. Later she could not move her whole body,” the boyfriend said.   

On Nov 6, Chayada told her fans that she went to the same massage shop three times in about a month. On the first two visits she had been treated in the same room by the same masseuse, who gave her “a neck twist”.  On the third visit she had been attended to by a new masseuse. 

Two weeks after the second visit, she started to have so much pain and stiffness over her body that she was unable to turn over in bed. 

On her third visit she met a masseuse who had a “heavy hand” which left her with swelling and bruises over her body for a week. Even though she continued taking painkillers, she later experienced tingling in the fingers and felt both cold and hot at all times. 

The numbness spread, and two weeks later she could not lift her right arm and could use less than 50% of her body. 

On Nov 18, the singer’s condition again worsened. She could not move and stayed in bed at all times.