Massage Final Flashcards
What (4) moves are in effleurage?
Aura/ethereal stroking
Feathering
Superficial effleurage
Deep effleurage
What is in the massage tripod?
Honesty
Awareness
Compassion
What (6) moves are in petrissage?
Skin rolling Two-finger petrissage One-handed petrissage Two-handed petrissage Opposing petrissage Fulling
What 2 categories are in friction? What moves are in each category? 1. (5) 2. (4)
- Gliding
Palmar friction, ulnar friction, wringing, chucking,rolling. - Non-gliding
Cross fiber friction, longitudinal friction, circular friction, compression
What moves are in vibration?(4)
Vertical vibration
Horizontal
Jostling
Shaking
What moves are in tapotement? (5)
- Tapping
- Hacking
- Cupping
- Slapping
- Beating
Who is per Henrick ling?
Father of Swedish massage
Professional touch vs. therapeutic touch
Professional- ethical and legal conduct is maintained, boundaries are followed, asking for feedback, works within clients comfort zone, provides draping.
Therapeutic- causes no harm, feels good, non sexual, nurturing, expresses care, safety, and trust.
What did per Henrick suffer from? Ling focused his life’s work on what?
Debilitating joint disease
Treatment of disease
What is effleurage’s general purpose
Creates length or the sensation of leng in the body. Enhance circulation.
What is the purpose of petrissage?
Kneading movement encourages the movement of the blood and lymph from deeper tissues and helps increase the health and elasticity of tissue.
Purpose of friction?
Increases circulation breaks up adhesions and aids in absorption of fluid around the joints.
Purpose of non gliding and gliding
Gliding- create heat, increase circulation
Non gliding- increased range of motion in joints, increases circulation
Purpose of vibration?
Releasing tension, breaking chronic pain cycles by confusing nervous system into relaxing, desensitizes tissues, creating a numbing effect, sedative, bring awareness to client
What is the purpose of Tapotement
Stimulation, sedated muscles, causes them to relax
Benefits of massage
Pushes blood to the heart, pushes lymph back to the heart, tones vessel walls, temporarily increases blood flow to an area, increases system function, increases range of motion, prevents disease and injury, decreases stress and anxiety feelings, increases feelings of well being, increases body awareness, increase bodies secretions and excretions, affects nervous system, enhance skin condition, affects organs,loosens scar tissue, relieve mental and physical fatigue
Non-vernal cues
Signs of holding- tense muscles, shallow breathing, flinching, ticklish, moves extremities for therapist, nervous laughter or talking, goose bumps, sweating.
Signs of releasing- odors from breath, softening of tissue, healthy glow to skin, deeper breathing, twitching, rapid eye movement, gurgle stomach, ser, goosebumps
Supine vs prone
Supine- face up
Prone-face down
