Basic strokes of massage
Friction Wringing or Marshanam -
Move either with the tips of the fingers or thumbs, the heel of the hand, or the dorsal surface of the two terminal phalanges in small circles. This technique is used to treat patients suffering from lumbago, sciatica, facial palsy, and thickened formations in certain areas of the body. The movement should be in an upward direction, raising your fingers or thumbs the method, which is similar to crawling movement. Friction ringing stimulates the smaller tissues.
Kneading or Mardanam -
Kneading is performed in different ways. Using the fingers, thumbs, and palms of the hands affects the larger muscles, waxing them into movement and renewing their vitality.
Other method is use your hand to press down on the large surface and move in a circular way, causing the compressing of the soft parts.Apply pressure in a wavelike manner. Kneading includes squeezing, grasping, and pinching.
Tapotement -
There are six ways to perform this technique include…
- Pounding
- Shaking
- Digital vibrations
- Hacking
- Beating
- Clapping
Pounding -
Do this with quick movement with the border of loosely closed hands by means of flexion of the hand and extension of the elbow. Use pounding over the liver, buttocks, the fleshy part of the thigh, and on the shoulders, especially in cases of obesity. Beating is similar movement used for fleshy parts only.
Shaking or kampanam -
Hold the limb of concern firmly and shake it in a manner designed to give freedom of action and restore it to its normal condition.
Digital vibrations -
In this movement place the middle fingers on the painful parts and vibrate very rapidly, yet lightly. This is helpful in relieving pain in the nerves, as in sciatica. Convey soothing flat-handed vibrations to the affected part through the surface of the palm. Rest the relaxed hand on the patient. Perform this movement with very rapid contractions and relaxations of the muscle of the forearm.
Stimulating vibrations are good for the sciatica nerve; vibrations are conveyed to the nerve with finger tips, with the fingers remaining stationary, that is, hold fingers together while moving them left and right, sideways, back and forth. Drawing the vibratory fingers down the course of nerve performs running nerve vibrations. Fingertips along the entire limb convey general nerve vibrations. Use digital vibrations in cases of bronchitis; to loosen a much-dilated stomach, to dispense flatulence, and to stimulate nerves in cases of facial palsy.
Hacking -
Use your hands to strike alternately with quick light blows. Do this with the dorsal side of three inner fingers, the ulnar (inner and larger of two bones of the forearm) border of the little finger, and the tips of the three middle fingers. Perform this movement from the wrists. Bring the edges of the hands down in short, rapid alternate strokes, first one hand and then the other, coming into shaprp ontact with the muscle.
Beating or stroking -
With your hands lightly closed bring them down from the wrists causing stimulating contrac with the tissues that are being treated. Hacking, beating, and drumming are helpful of the large muscles of the loins, such as the lumbar muscles and buttocks.
Clapping or champanam -
Clapping is purely a wrist movement, performed with hands loosely relaxed.
Contraindications
. Those people who have undergone heart surgery or any kind of major surgery, those who are pregnant must be done this massage with extreme caution under the strict supervision of ayurvedic physician. This treatment is contraindicated in upper motor nervous lesions, very thin patients and very painful areas of the body
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