Magic power of massage

The word "massage" comes to us from the East and means "to press, touch his hand." It turns out that massage is the oldest method of treatment. After all, even to innocent babe, banging his knee, starts stroking, rubbing the sore spot with his hands. The oldest description of the massage techniques found in China - they are almost 5000 years. Massage is widely used by the Romans in the treatment of soldiers. Hippocrates wrote about it: "Dry and strong friction increases tension fabrics, rubbing, manufactured by gently and softly, in contrast, relaxes them." Strange, but with the advent of Christianity in this kind of quackery became regarded as a relic of paganism and did not recognize him until the 19 th century. (Though in Russia for centuries used a homegrown method of rubbing a patient in the bath). However, the second its birth must massage the German professor Mozengeylyu and Swede Ling. That Mozengeyl began studying massage as part of traditional medicine, spending countless experiments on animals. Today, massage is called a method of treating many diseases with the help of various techniques rubbing, stroking, kneading, tapping and vibration (shaking). The five universal techniques used by doctors around the world. But giving preference to any particular or specific combining them in the world of massage are several schools, such as the eastern, western, Swedish, esalen, shiatsu. Although most physical therapists do not recognize such a division, not without reason considering that the basis of any massage is a classic massage and if you enter any classification, it is logical to subdivide it for medical, sports, hygiene (preventive) and cosmetic. Warm, warmer, warmer still ... Or why you need a massage? Massage improves nutrition of tissues and promotes their work. This is especially true of skin and subcutaneous tissue, then there is an impact locally. With the active massaging the skin peeled off the top layer of the epidermis, it is cleared by opening the sebaceous and sweat ducts. There is a surge of arterial blood, massed place reddens and becomes warmer. But massage affects positively and at the whole organism. Have you not noticed that, comforting someone in distress, we are a little stroking his head, back and shoulders? Now we prove that these involuntary movements are calming to the nervous system, normalize blood circulation, evoke a quiet, restful sleep. If these strokes do vigorously, we can cause the opposite reaction. Other experiments showed that the weak pressure on the affected nerve (eg, neurology) enhances its sensitivity, and strong - to reduce pain. Massage speeds up the absorption of harmful products and removes them from the body. With the help of massage can excite or inhibit the muscular and nervous tissue. All of this suggests that the massage - a very complex science requiring the exact knowledge of anatomy and reflexology. With various diseases of experienced massage therapists use different techniques. They always take into account the fact that the lymph collects in the body of harmful products and puts them in a prostate (with painful conditions, they swell up a bit), where they are processed and displayed. Therefore, we must know the direction of lymph flow, skillfully driving the harmful substances in the "trap" rather than massaging prostate, releasing them back into the bloodstream and infect the body. Experienced specialist using massage for only a couple of minutes can relieve a headache, lower body temperature, increase urination, reduce the amount of sugar in the blood, calm the patient and the waft sleep. You are Chinese or Swedish? The doctrine of massage came to Europe from the East. Perhaps that is why it is considered that this massage is done only in China, India or Thailand (most recently in the press section of ads appeared, even the term "Thai Massage"). In fact, massaged the same muscle group (they have about 450) and active points (around 2000). The only difference is that in the East, in the same Thailand, culture, massage and wholly. And if the Chinese massage is taken or in secret, then it is likely to get it more skillfully than the Europeans. They'd rather own techniques of massage, including Thai massage is also delivered on a commercial basis and brings a lot to the treasury income from tourists. Oriental massage is often done with medicated oils, herbs. Sometimes it is combined with acupuncture. The Chinese are studying the human body, discovered that life energy flows into it through 12 meridians, with its oceans and marine energy. Knowing their situation, can the energy to throw out "a full-flowing" ocean "petty." Although doctors physiotherapists, who assisted me in writing this article, warn our tourists do massage in the East with the first comer. Many of them have knowledge of the dark and a vampire. At least, even the traditional doctors recognize that their practices have been instances where a completely healthy person, with a few massages in India, for unknown reasons, became terminally ill. Swedish massage, or as they call it, Western is focusing on increased physical impact on the patient's body. It most often used methods of tapping and light strokes. Shiatsu - Japanese massage school, implying effects of fingers on the active points. To do this well know the location of these points. Then we can quickly remove the pain of various origins, insomnia, fatigue, and constipation. Saw and felt, too, need to be able So the basis of any massage on five techniques used by massage therapists, regardless of their affiliation to a particular school. Stroking Each massage begins with a light and gentle stroking of the skin. This affects the venous circulation and lymphatic flow, first in the superficial vessels, then in deeper. If massaged body part hurts, the first few days are limited to a few seconds of massage, gradually bringing it to 3-5 minutes. Stroking the beginning just above the painful place and the further away the hand, the intense Pushing - so is the outflow of blood from the patient's seats. Intake strokes begin to massage his case, moving to a different method, he also ended the session. Rubbing Rubbing do in those cases where you want to crush abnormal accumulation in tissues (ie, bruise, exudate) and get rid of the contents of the lymph vessels. Also, grinding is used for pains in the joints and neuralgia, causing blood flow to the sore spot. Technically, this technique consists of rubbing massaging (as if we're trying to erase the stain on the skin, making circular motions with one, two or three fingers) and strokes (so we aim to exudate in the flow of lymph). In this patient's skin, which lies under the fingers of a massage therapist, too, must move. The duration of grinding - from 2 to 7 minutes. Receiving kneading kneading massage therapists are sometimes called felting. With this method, the impact is directly on the muscles. Due to improved nutrition kneading the muscles, increasing the outflow of lymph and venous blood and an influx of arterial blood. Before and after the kneading of muscles necessarily done stroking. Since most massed most of the muscles, then this method is carried out with both hands. Hands grab a group of muscles at an angle to the growth of fibers, lift it from the bones and rolls from the periphery to the center of the muscle. Masseur makes all the motions easily, without straining your wrist, it should be that the skin is moving (rocking), together with the muscles. This method is used for massage weak or atrophied muscles of the limbs. By the methods of kneading and include the so-called cutting muscle. This is done edge of his hand, and the patient's skin moves with the brush. Effleurage effleurage massage technique rather complicated, since different degrees of intensity of exposure can be achieved pryamoprotivopolozhnyh results. The whole procedure lasts no more than 2 minutes. The effect is that increases blood flow to the tissues, improving their nutrition, but because of the tremors muscle tissue is its excitation, which affects the nerve fibers and reduces (and in some cases, by contrast, increases) pain sensitivity. Receiving tapping used for pain relief from neuralgia, relieving increased nervous sensitivity. Effleurage done in different ways, for example, a flat palm, fingertips of a hand or a fist. And only the soft tissue of the patient, bypassing all bony protrusions! Effleurage massage therapists across the plane of the palm is also called pat. Light tapping can be done on the back and chest, stronger - on the limbs. Concussion and vibration In this method of massage is the pressure on the muscles and nerves, which indirectly affects the entire body. Acting on the muscle, tremor excites her, and nervous tissue, on the contrary, suppresses, blunting the sensitivity (and therefore often used for removal of sciatica). So, wanting to reduce the excitability of a nerve in his course of doing shaking tremors. Pulse of the patient at the same time slows down, increasing the voltage of the walls of blood vessels, raises blood pressure. If you shake the chest increases the capacity of the lung tissue. Technically, this technique is difficult to implement (it is important to keep the rhythm) and use it only to experienced masseurs. Concussion on the pressure points is called vibration. The rhythm of vibration more tremors. Because of the strong effects on the body, this method of massage do no more than 3 minutes. Massage techniques with the help of vibration can be learned and myself, to start using a glass of water on the table. With the proper method of vibration in the movement should come only the central column of water, inappropriate - all the water varies from edge to edge. Recently receiving vibration massage therapists can do with various mechanical devices. However, the experienced therapist, the less he uses these devices, believing that only through the hands can regain strength and energy to the sick person. Do No Harm! The first indications for massage are diseases of the musculoskeletal system. Think of the circus experience Dikul actor, who has returned to life itself, and many doomed and bedridden invalids. Massage helps with many internal diseases, such as diseases of the gastrointestinal tract (excited peristatika), kidney (concussions crushed stones), liver (vibration and shocks contribute to the liberation of the gallbladder), heart (massage increases blood circulation, raises or lowers blood pressure) . Massage helps with diseases of the nervous system. For athletes, massage - the best dope! But there are contraindications. For example, it can not be done in many acute diseases, tuberculosis, diabetes, and suppuration, sepsis, thrombosis, venous enlargement, malignant tumors, in feverish conditions, HIV infection should be extremely cautious with regard to massage the elderly, blood vessels, which are not so flexible, and pregnant women. A good massage therapist - it ... It can be compared with the pianist. As a pianist, sensitively detecting falsity of the keys, the therapist through his hands "sees" all the pathology in muscle and bone tissues of the patient. This is achieved only through practice. No theorist, though he academician, not a massage so wisely and skillfully, as do his masseuse with extensive experience. I remember making daily massages at an advanced stage, I heard of a masseuse with indignation: - All down the drain! - Resented it, stroking my "collar zone." - Well, for what reason did you do yesterday was so nervous? The entire spine "beaten"! I'm all for a week so well dispersed, cleaned, took power and now, please! ... The first touch of the masseuses to your body to provide a false sense of softness and tenderness of their hands. Later, you should feel great muscular strength of these very hands. But choosing a specialist, it must be remembered that over the years, his hands even the most experienced of them lose both the strength and flexibility, and resilience. Although in this case, it is better to give preference to elderly masseuse, knowing the anatomy than energetic, but still not quite literate colleagues. Inexperienced masseuse even simple rubbing can cause a dangerous penetration of bacteria into the lymphatic vessels, not to mention how easy it is to move the skin disease from one patient to another. And do not be indignant, if you take only 10-15 minutes instead of half an hour as you wish. For all of the body enough and 10 minutes for the total - about half an hour or more. But massaging the full program in the first session (especially if the massage is done regularly, once a year or even rarer) - illiterate. When the therapist himself, lung ailments can have a massage on their own. To do this you need only know the energy points on the body (a school of shiatsu) that are associated with certain internal organs. So, if you woke up this morning and you have a headache (the most frequent cause is the stagnation of venous blood), call the influx of fresh blood. To do this a few times to put pressure on the crown, the points located just above the frontal boundary of the hair growth. Then the pad of the thumb can easily click on points along the right carotid artery, descending from the lower jaw to the clavicle (about four or five points) and also along the left artery. Repeat six or seven times. When back pain spread wide fingers and hug yourself around the waist so that his thumbs were back along the lumbar vertebrae. Straighten your back, make a few (ten to fifteen), pressing pads of the thumbs on these points. Insomnia Napoleon gave good advice, which, as history shows, sleeping only three hours. But that it is quite enough for energy recovery. "First of all, - he said - to close in the brains of all the drawers with issues and problems of the past day and completely shut down. Secondly, waking up, immediately get up, not vylezhivayas and stretching." But supporters of shiatsu help myself from insomnia as follows. The thumb of his left hand to push down to four points along the left carotid artery, right - right along. Approximately three times on each side. Then three fingers slightly to put pressure on points along the cervical vertebrae, descending down from the occipital region to the shoulder girdle. Then, his legs stretched out as much as possible to bend and straighten the toes, stimulating blood circulation in the lower extremities. Repeat several times. Carried out massages and slimming. However, for greater efficiency, and make them be the expert. But as shown by experiments, the method of shiatsu massage and a classic is less effective than, for example, regular exercises. This massage local value (the destruction of fat cells) is negligible. These cells are very flexible and virtually not affected by the destruction, as previously thought. Weight lost during a massage by increasing the metabolism, stimulate circulation and enhanced detoxification, and therefore give preference to a general massage, not just massage the abdomen and thighs