Massage Movements Flashcards

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Mechanical Effects of VIBRATION

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  • Stimulates synovial activity
  • Loosens muscle fibers
  • Loosens joint ligaments
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Reflexive Effects of VIBRATION

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  • Penetrating Nerve Simulation
  • Stimulates the organs when applied over the abdomen or low back
  • Jostling decreases muscle guarding
  • Reduces pain (gate theory)
  • Hyperemia
  • Increases circulation
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Contraindications of VIBRATION

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  • Muscle Spasm
  • Spastic Paralysis
  • Insomnia
  • Neuralgia - nerve pain
  • Fatigue
  • Over the low abdomen during pregnancy or menstruation
  • Over the kidneys
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Mechanical Effects of TAPOTEMENT

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  • Increases gaseous exchange (coughing)
  • Cupping over the throax loosens mucous
  • Tapping over the sinuses loosens mucous
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Reflexive Effects of TAPOTEMENT

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  • Stimulates muscles
  • Stimulates nerves
  • Stimulates organs
  • Stimulates skin, vessels, etc
  • Hyperemia
  • Increases circulation
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Contraindications of TAPOTEMENT

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  • Muscle Spasm
  • Spastic paralysis
  • Insomnia
  • Neuralgia- nerve pain
  • Fatigue
  • Over the low abdomen during pregnancy or menstruation
  • Over the kidneys
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Mechanical Effects of SWEDISH GYMNASTICS

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  • Stretches muscle tissue and related soft tissue
  • Increases flexibility and ROM at a specific joint
  • Increase blood supply and nutrtion to joints and muscles
  • Removes lymph and waste (with movement - mostly with active ROM)
  • Loosens adhesions by working the muscle/movement
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Reflexive Effects of SWEDISH GYMNASTICS

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  • Stimulates the nervous system
  • Increases blood and body temperature
  • Tones muscles
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Contraindications SWEDISH GYMNASTICS

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  • Tear to a ligament, tendon, or muscle
  • Acute injuries
  • Unhealed fracture
  • Post-surgery
  • Heart Conditions
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Mechanical Effects of EFFLEURAGE

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  • compresses and stretches skin, broadens tissue
  • moves venous fluids
  • moves local lymphatic fluids
  • reduces edema
  • aids circulation by moving fluids/waste products
  • warms superficial tissue
  • desquamation of skin cells
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Reflexive Effects of EFFLEURAGE

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  • Relaxing- elicits parasympathetic response
  • Decreases heart rate
  • General vasodilation- blood vessels widen
  • Increases Endorphins
  • Can decrease pain
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Contraindications of EFFLEURAGE

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  • Acute inflammation
  • Pitted edema
  • Newly formed scar tissue
    • Very hairy skin (knots hair)
  • Hyperesthesia (Ticklish)
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Mechanical Effects of PETRISSAGE

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  • warms skin and deeper tissues
  • stretches and broadens muscles
  • stretches vessels (veins and lymphatics)
  • improves circulation
  • moves local interstital fluids
  • Helps break up- and or prevent adhesions
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Reflexive Effects of PETRISSAGE

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  • Encourages relaxation when performed slowly
  • Encourages stimulation when performed rapidly
  • Affects proprioception
  • Increases peristalis over abdomen
  • Increases elimination of metabolic waste
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Contraindications of PETRISSAGE

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  • Atrophied muscles
  • Flaccid paralysis ( a clinical manifestation characterized by weakness or paralysis and reduced muscle tone without other obvious cause ( eg, trauma)
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Mechanical Effects of FRICTION

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  • Temporary ischemia
  • Compresses and spreads muscle fibers
  • Loosens fascial adhesions
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Reflexive Effects of FRICTION

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  • Hyperemia
  • Decreases local/referred pain (gate theory)
  • Relaxes muscles (golgi tendon organ)
  • Increases peristalsis
  • Increases circulation
  • Increases flexibility
  • Increases muscle function
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Contraindications of FRICTION

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  • Recent acute injuries
  • Neuritis (inflammation of a nerve)
  • Rheumatoid Arthritis

*** Any contraindication associated to effleurage or petrissage is also a contradiction to friction except for hairy skin and hyperesthesia