Snakes on a pain: Bizarre massage technique gets reptiles to sort out your bad back

Massage has never been so sssssssensual.

This woman in a Rio de Janeiro beauty salon is enjoying a new kind of massage fad that has made its way to the Brazilian capital from South East Asia.

The patient lies face down on the massage couch while pythons and corn snakes are laid across her back. The serpents twist around the arms and legs. It is said to be relaxing.

It seems to be a lite version of a massage treatment offered to brave visitors at Cebu City Zoo in the Philippines. There patients can have their cricks ironed out by four giant pythons with a combined weight of 250kg.

As a violinist plays soothing music, a beautician applies snakes to this patient in a Rio beauty salon

Ssssssoothing? The snakes used in the treatment are corn snakes and pythons