TECHNIQUES AND USES OF CHIROMASSAGE

TECHNIQUES AND USES OF MASSAGE

The techniques employees when making massage, are a group of movements carried out with the hands on the patient's body.

This series of movements, they are the following ones:

Of all these movements, to the professional's approach, those will be used that are appropriate to the necessity to try and according to the intensity to use. Now we will describe the characteristics of each one of these movements that can being of friction, rub, kneadings, percussions and mobilizations.

Magnetic touches

This manipulation consists on caressing since with the yolks of all the fingers the area that we will try very superficially, it is the first one taking of contact with the patient.
Except for some exception is carried out at the beginning of each treatment and when concluding, to move away the excessive magnetic load that can accumulate during the treatment.
The sense of this manipulation is “centrifugal.”
The rhythm will be slow.

Venous decongestion

This manipulation is applied to derive or to empty the sanguine glasses that at this time could have excess of fluid, avoiding capillary breaks then, the formation of having lived, petequias, etc.
Its realization, is at the beginning and at the end being able to likewise, to the professional's approach, to be made during the treatment.
Their sense is centripetal, fundamentally when acting on the extremities.
The rhythm, will be slow.

Digital kneading

This manipulation, is good to begin to deepen in the area to try, since it begins to mobilize the corresponding muscular mass.
It is carried out with the two hands and with the ten fingers, acting alternately.
It is of application in any part of the body.
With the same it is possible to increase the sanguine flush eliminating the fluid of the interstitial space coming from edemas. It undoes clots, adherences and it is decontracturing.
The application rhythm, will be slow.

Palm-digital kneading

Just as their name it indicates, this manipulation, the same as the previous one, is good to knead muscular areas, but in this it allows to embrace a bigger portion of muscular mass.
The effect of this manipulation, is fundamentally the same one that in the previous one, it only changes the realization way.
They act both hands alternately.
The rhythm, will also be slow.

Kneading with knuckles simple

This manipulation, is made with two fingers, the thumb and the index. It is guided to treat harder areas and of reduced space. Their action is deeper as for the plane of the skin it refers.
It is habitually used in near areas to the bone, such as spine and articulations.
Their purpose is similar to that of the previous ones.
It is applied with both hands in an alternate way.
The application rhythm, will be likewise slow.

Kneading with knuckles total

Manipulation that as the previous one, it has their performance in deeper planes, but carrying out it with the ten fingers.
It is used in general in areas of great muscular mass, as the back and back of the legs preferably.
With it, the same effect is gotten that with the previous one.
It is usually used in sport treatments; one works with both hands in an alternating way.
Its execution rhythm, is also slow.

Kneading pulp-thumb

This manipulation, is carried out exclusively with the thumbs of both hands.
It is applied in articular areas very precise, as wrist, knees, shoulders, area for vertebral, etc.
Their fundamental action is to increase the circulatory torrent (hyperemia) and to produce heat in the treated area.
The action of the hands, will be alternating.
The application rhythm, it can be slow or quick, to the therapist's approach, depending fundamentally on the lesion type. 

Reinforced kneading

This manipulation, is carried out when the patient has a lot of muscular tone, motivated by the practice of a sport or for nervous tensions.
It is used as anyone of the manipulations described previously, but acting with a single hand, since the other one, reinforces the action pressing on the one that works.
Its action, is decontracturing and the application rhythm, it will be slow.

Cubital swollen cheek

It is a percussion manipulation that is used hitting the area to try with the border of the hand, the blows, they should not produce pain.
Its purpose, is stimulating, tonic, it increases the temperature and the circulation, it also acts on the nervous system, stimulating its action.
It is applied with the two hands in an alternative way and the application rhythm is quick.

It has the same purpose that the previous one, but it is applied with the palm of the hand, with the fingers bent, forming a concave area that will have a sucker purpose, to cause their main action below the skin.
It is applied with the two hands in an alternating way, but for the position of fingers bent, it has a hard character, for what will be used fundamentally in sport treatments.
The application rhythm, will be likewise quick.

As their name it indicates, this manipulation is carried out using as much the back as the palm of the hand, it requires a great coordination of movements, since it is carried out at the same time with both hands acting in an alternate way.
Its purpose is to increase the outlying circulation (hyperemia) and to empty this excess of blood at the same time, opening the way to the entrance of more oxygenated blood.
It usually uses after the percussions, since the heat of the treated area increases.

Manipulation that is carried out with two fingers, index and thumb.
Their use is limited to the treatments against the constipation.
It is applied in the patient's abdominal area following the address of the three portions of the colon.
It is executed alternately with both hands and their mission is to undo the grounds and to drive them toward the anal conduit.

Concave clap

This percussion, the same as all the other ones, has the purpose of to stimulate and to strengthen, but when being carried out with the palm of the hand in concave form, has a sucker action, but softer than that of the concave cheek.
It is executed at the same time with both hands of alternate form and the application rhythm, it is quick.

Digital clap

This percussion type, is carried out using the phalanges of the ten fingers exclusively.
It has the same mission that the previous percussions, but it is used fundamentally in small areas, as the face.
Should not forget that the percussions that are made with the open hand, can produce pain, reason why we should apply them with supreme care, so that this doesn't happen, we should offer to the maximum, a good wrist game.
It will be applied to quick rhythm, with alternating hands.

It is practically similar to the previous one, but making frictions at the same time.
Their action is the same one, but due to the haulage that produces the friction, it is able to derive the hyperemia increase, taken place in the percussion.
It is applied to quick rhythm and with alternating hands. 

Plane clap

It produces a great stimulus, but in compensation, it is the one that with more easiness, it can cause pain or annoyance to the patient.
You therefore will take care a lot of their execution, through a correct wrist game.
It is applied to alternating hands and with quick rhythm.

This manipulation, is carried out with the yolks of the ten fingers, acting on the area to try, first pressing with the fingers and then dragging them, as if we wanted to draw furrows.
It produces the drainage of the circulatory system and of the lymphatic system, although of this last one in smaller measure, also increasing the temperature of the skin.
This manipulation, is always made in centripetal sense, for it to take care from the sense when making it in the extremities.

Circumflex digital touches

It is a variant of the previous one that is made in the same form, but conferring to the haulage movement a wavy form. This allows to embrace a bigger area.
It is convenient their use, after the previous one, to break the inertia of their execution.
The same as in the previous one, you acts with the yolks of the ten fingers.

It is a relaxing manipulation, given the sway character in that it is carried out.
It is applied exclusively to the extremities, in short, in arms and thighs.

Although for its name it can seem it, this manipulation should not be painful, for what requires to have practiced it sufficiently before using it.
Are used in its realization, the fingers of both hands, their action is similar to that of the kneadings, but in function of the used type, they produce a bigger hyperemia.
They are used to rehabilitate muscular areas or weakened regions and it stops slimming treatments, since they mobilize the fatty fabric.

It is a variant of the previous ones, in which the movement is also completed giving an internal turn with the pinched mass.
As the previous ones, the hyperemia increases and it mobilizes a little more the fatty fabric, reason why is used primarily in slimming treatments.
It is executed with both hands in an alternating way.

With this manipulation, we mobilize bigger quantity of fatty fabric and we eliminate adherences likewise.
It is used in slimming treatments and in painful points of the spine, but in this last case pinching a smaller portion of muscular mass.

The same as the previous manipulation, mobilizes fatty fabric and it removes adherences.
It is of utility in slimming treatments and to treat sequels of lesions.

It is a manipulation that is used fundamentally in facial treatments, so much of aesthetics as of recovery.
It is executed alternately with the yolks of the index finger and thumb of both hands, it causes the hyperemia and it stimulates the nervous system in the treated area.
It is used in reduced areas and the application rhythm, it is quick.

This manipulation, the temperature of the skin increases, its use is adapted before the caressed neurosedative .
It is also adapted to clean the flakes of the skin.

They act in the regulation of the nervous system, for what they can be stimulating or relaxing in function of the patient's situation when they are applied.
It is applied making soft percussions with the ten fingers in an orderly way.

It is a manipulation that requires mechanical and mental action, its basic function it is to stimulate the application area that can be directed to the nervous system, to the stomach peristaltic movements, bowels, liver, etc.
So that its execution is effective totally, it is very important the mental action.

This pressure, it should be made only in cases of tachycardia, given the connection that exists with the vague nerve that would be the one in charge of diminishing the heart rhythm in this case.
They will be made between 8 and 10 pressures, being considered only as a momentary help to the patient, since should be a doctor or specialist the one that determines the treatment.

These five manipulations, due to their explanatory difficulty, should it turns practically.

Mobilizations

This section describes the following manipulations:

Approach of two parts of the body united by an or more articulations.

It means lateral flexion, of those parts of the body united by articulations with several movement senses.

Extension

To extend or to stretch a part of the body.

Position of face down.

Position of face up.

Turn movement on the own axis.

Movement of more circular extension, the bone travels the biggest possible space.

Separation movement, with relationship to the central axis of the body.

Approach movement, with relationship to the central axis of the body.

They are those that the patient carries out without the therapist's help. They improve the sanguine circulation and the lymphatic one, besides mobilizing articulations and muscular groups, avoiding this way atrophies and rigidities.

They are those carried out by the therapist, when the patient lacks force to carry out them.

They are those carried out by the patient and the therapist opposes resistance to the same ones.

It is gotten better results that in the previous ones, since powering the concentric muscular force.

They are those carried out by the therapist with the patient's opposition, the same as in the previous ones, you power the muscular force and they reinforce the antagonistic muscles likewise.

The applications more common of these manipulations, according to the treatment that should be made, they are reflected in the following table of treatments:

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These techniques and movements can be used with different purposes, either to relax, to take out contractures, to improve lesions or for functional rehabilitation. According to the purpose, we will choose the type of massage intensity:

• Relaxation or sensitive chiromassage: Soft movements
• Sport chiromassage: Intense movements, adapted for muscular contractures and small lesions.
• Recovery's chiromassage: Intense movements and intense mobilizations, sometimes with the help of apparatuses and diverse instruments (infrareds, vibrations, electric stimulation, application of cold, etc.).

All the types of massages facilitate the sanguine watering and the lymphatic circulation and they have positive effects on the nervous system, but each one of the intensities has some more opportune uses that we point out next to big features:

Relaxation or sensitive chiromassage

This massage of soft movements, is the most appropriate to conquer the muscular fatigue, the physical fatigue and also the stress. It is also useful to treat the constipation and the menstrual pains. You can also use for the elimination of small ailments muscular and bony and/or small contractures, fundamentally those taken place by postural defects. Also this intensity is usually the appropriate one to help to lose weight, to reaffirm fabrics and to improve flabby areas.

Sport chiromassage

It is a massage of intense movements, with which can decrease important contractures and to treat small problems taken place when having made movements inadequate, bad expressions or articular twists without more consequences. Also, due to their intensity, it is the massage adapted by those people that practice sports and that they have the worked muscular groups in the habitual thing, although they don't have contractures neither injure, since the soft massage, in these cases, would only serve to relax himself.

Recovery muscle tone and elasticity's chiromassage

How the previous one, is a massage of intense movements, with which can decrease important contractures and to treat lesions, the combined use of mobilizations, it allows to recover the muscular tone and the functionality of the muscular groups that have been lost for various reasons. In the cases in that it is necessary, will also be used apparatuses that facilitate this recovery, as for example infrareds, vibrations, tens, application of cold, etc.