Homesessive Web Search

Search results

1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network

2. Massage - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massage

   Calf massage with a bamboo massage tool. Instrument-assisted soft-tissue massage can deploy stainless-steel devices to manipulate tissue in a way that augments hands-on work. A body rock is a serpentine-shaped tool, usually carved out of stone. It is used to amplify the therapist's strength and focus pressure on certain areas.

3. Effleurage - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effleurage

   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. It is also used as a linking move between ...

4. Myofascial release - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myofascial_release

   v. t. e. 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. [1]

5. Medical massage - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_massage

   Medical massage is outcome-based massage, primarily the application of a specific treatment targeted to the specific problem the patient presents with a diagnosis and are administered after a thorough assessment/evaluation by the medical massage therapist with specific outcomes being the basis for treatment. It is also known as clinical massage ...

6. Category:Massage therapy - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Massage_therapy

   Pages in category "Massage therapy" The following 53 pages are in this category, out of 53 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...

7. Petrissage - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrissage

   Petrissage. 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 .