Everybody are turning to massage therapy or reflexology for relief from injuries and certain chronic and acute conditions, to help them deal with the stresses of daily life, and to maintain good health.
Effleurage:
Stroking movement in which the hands glide with long even strokes over the body surfaces. Strokes are in the direction of the heart which helps push along the flow of blood and lymph.
Friction:
Compression movement performed with the thumb, fingertips, or the palm of the hand and in circular motion. Helpful in limbering joints.tendons and muscles.
Petrissage:
A compression movement using kneading, pressing, twisting, and squeezing muscle tissue creating a pumping action that forces the veneous blood and lymph onward and brings a fresh supply of blood to the muscle.
Tapotement:
Types of percussion movement that include quick strikes made with the hands or fingertips:
HACKING:
Using the heel or ulnar border of the hand, it is used on muscles around nerve centers.
TAPPING:
Using fingertips, with light to brisk movements.
CLAPPING:
Slapping, cupping performed with the palms or the flat surfaces of the hands and fingers.
BEATING:
Performed with a clenched hand, generally used on the buttocks and lower extremities.
Vibration:
A continuous trembling, pressing movement made with the hands or fingers.
Other Movements:
The following are variations in therapeutic movement:
ROLLING:
Tissue and muscles are compressed and twisted firmly against the bone.
CHUCKING:
Flesh is moved firmly up and down along the bone while the other hand steadies the limb.
WRINGING:
Flesh is twisted in opposite directions.
STRETCHES: Basic stretching methods to improve range of motion. Basic stretching methods to improve range of motion.
The most familiar with clients. Swedish Massage often called Classic European Massage is generally done with the aid of oils and incorporates long, smooth, slow strokes creating a very relaxing experience. Kneading, friction, compression, percussion, vibration, and stroking are all used in Swedish Massage. Muscles are worked until totally relaxed.
Swedish Massage is one of the most well-known and widely practiced massage / bodywork techniques. This vigorous system of treatment provides generalized relaxation, increased cell nutrition and improved circulation, which may reduce swelling and speed healing from injury, lower blood pressure, reduce stress and enhance the client's overall state of health.
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The words "sensual massage" can conjure all sorts of images -- some more steamy than others.
It's a loaded phrase, certainly, but not necessarily in a negative sense, according to a FindAMasseur.com masseur.
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It's important to do so, he said, because communication between the client and the masseur is vital.
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Sensual massage is, by definition, an extremely intimate act. Particularly when both the client and the masseur are gay, the massage can easily have sexual undertones. But a massage can also just be a massage.
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the masseur continued. "Sexual massage is quick and easy, but clients come back because they enjoyed the caress so much."
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Now, just because the phrase "sensual massage" can evoke sexual connotations, not all gay clients are looking for anything more than a strong rubdown.
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James Newman is a freelance writer in Texas and currently a staff writer for Findamasseur.com - http://www.findamasseur.com
