i am a graduate student, i want to do a research about slow stroke back massage. I want to know is there any right order of the massage movement (as it is in original) because most of the research that I found used modification of SSBM, and i wonder how much pressure should I apply while doing the massage. I find it difficult to find book about it too... If you have an info about this please share, thank you.
- Effleurage from top to bottom
- Run thumbs down spine
- Sacrum stretch
- Work sacrum with thumbs, heels, or reinforced fingers
- Thumbs outward from spine toward opposite side
- Petrissage both sides (kneading, wringing)
- make circles upward with reinforced fingers - raking opposite side
- Heels upward, pull trapezius backward (opp. side)
- Forearm up same side
- Elbow up and down
- Thumb movement outward over scapula and in boxes - Thumb pressure (or knuckles) around, under scapula - elevate arm and go under scapula with heel - Knead Trapezius
- Heels over Trapezius
- Static Pressure on Trapezius - Effleurage entire leg - Squeezing V up the leg - Compression up the leg
- work the gluteals with reinforced fingers, fist, and heel - work joint, piriformis, gluteus medius - elbow gluteus
- Wringing and Kneading - Forearm for deep tissue - fists up the iliotibial band
- knead the calf muscles - split the calf - fulling
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you got the principle, follow the idea. good luck
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