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Effleurage, a French word meaning 'to skim' or 'to touch lightly on', is a series of massage strokes used in Swedish massage to warm up the muscle before deep tissue work using petrissage. [1] [2] This is a soothing, stroking movement used at the beginning and the end of the facial and/or body massage.
An example of a reflexology chart, demonstrating the areas of the feet that practitioners believe correspond with organs in the "zones" of the body. Reflexology , also known as zone therapy , is an alternative medical practice involving the application of pressure to specific points on the feet, ears, and hands.
At first glance, muscle scraping might seem similar to gua sha, foam rolling, or deep-tissue massage. And while they all aim to improve soft tissue health, muscle scraping stands out for its use ...
They are thought to create an inflammatory response and instigate focus to injured areas. A 2002 systematic review found that no additional benefit was incurred from the inclusion of deep tissue friction massage in a therapeutic regimen, although the conclusions were limited by the small sample sizes in available randomized clinical trials. [11]
Myofascial release (MFR, self-myofascial release) is an alternative medicine therapy claimed to be useful for treating skeletal muscle immobility and pain by relaxing contracted muscles, improving blood and lymphatic circulation and stimulating the stretch reflex in muscles.
Petrissage (French, from pétrir 'to knead') is a massage technique that applies deep pressure to the underlying muscles. Kneading, wringing, skin rolling, and pick-up-and-squeeze are the petrissage movements. [1] [2] They are all performed with the padded palmar surface of the hand, the surface of the finger and also the thumbs.
In 1899 Austrian chemist von Zaynek determined the rate of heat production in tissue as a function of frequency and current density, and first proposed using high-frequency currents for deep heating therapy. [2] In 1908 German physician Karl Franz Nagelschmidt coined the term diathermy, and performed the first extensive experiments on patients. [3]