Talk:Massage

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 Definition:  Systematic, applied manipulation of body tissues with the hands to relieve pain and reduce swelling, relax muscles, and speed healing after strains and sprains. [d] [e]
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Especially when making claims or speaking of specific techniques, references are needed, and often explanations. Howard C. Berkowitz 21:48, 27 January 2011 (UTC)

Soft Tissue Therapy

Treatment techniques include:

  • Trigger point therapy for the alleviation of trigger points.
  • Myofascial (muscle and fascia) therapy for flexibility/mobility of the connective tissues of our body, or for alleviating fibrous adhesions and decreasing the severity of scars.
  • Broad handed techniques for reducing swelling or inflammation
  • Frictions for the ridding of adhesions between fascial layers, muscles, compartments and the like. Frictions also promote healing in tendon pathologies as well as decreasing pain perception.
  • Sustained pressure (digital pressures) to alleviate hypertonic (tight)areas within muscle and fascia
  • Other techniques such as Active Release Therapies, Myofascial Release and deep tissue massage are all derivatives of the techniques above. They are NOT unique techniques with unique results.
  • Stretching - static, dynamic, and/or PNF stretches (proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation)
  • Muscle Energy Technique (MET)
  • Exercise Prescription
  • Advice

This is one of the techniques used by sports massage therapists.

Tai Chi Massage

There is very little literature on this, or even unique web text -- most seems to be copied from one source. I hesitate to list techniques associated with a small group and having little coverage. Howard C. Berkowitz 11:00, 28 January 2011 (UTC)

Tai Ji / Tai Chi Massage is massage using the natural principles of Tai Ji, Yin and Yang to achieve balance in the qi energies of the body, leading to a healthy mind body and spirit. Tai Ji / Tai Chi The traditional Chinese term refers to the Dao, which is the inexpressible oneness and connectedness of all things.

Tai Ji Massage is a Qi treatment and it makes a treatment in terms of Qi. The master practitioner can sense the Qi blockages inside the body and the relationship which they have to each other. Qi blockages gives the practitioner insight into causes of chronic sicknesses, recurring sicknesses, psychosomatic sicknesses, future sicknesses.

The main use of this techniques is, relaxation and self-exploration, and in a therapeutic way, functional organ problems, chronic sicknesses and psychosomatic sicknesses.

Tai Ji Massage was developed by Richard Wickes, Li Cun De.

Structural muscular balancing

Again, very little available information. It was developed by Mark Beck and described in Theory & Practice of Therapeutic Massage.Howard C. Berkowitz 11:08, 28 January 2011 (UTC)

A gentle and effective technique that releases chronic contraction in the muscles. The nervous system is triggered to release contractions through compression applied to muscles placed in a shortened position.

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