ASHA - Swedish Massage - Components of Touch
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| The four components of touch | show 🗑
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| show | skilled and done for compensation; done to promote healing
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| show | common everyday touch, both intentional and unintentional
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| show | long, gliding strokes using flat palms, fingers, thumbs, forearms or back of hands
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| show | Open or close a massage, spread the oil/lotion, warm the tissue, introduce client to therapist touch, to increase circulation, to prepare the body for deeper work.
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| show | Relaxes the nervous system, increases blood and lymph, slow strokes produce a soothing effect, faster strokes produe stimulating effect.
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| Petrissage - movement | show 🗑
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| Petrissage - purpose | show 🗑
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| show | stimulates the nervous system, softens fascia, reduces fatigue and muscle tension, increases circulation, improves muscle tone, increases muscular elasticity
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| Friction - movement | show 🗑
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| Friction - purpose | show 🗑
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| show | breaks down adhesions.
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| show | Series of brisk blows done rhythmically using alternating hands or wrists relaxed.
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| Tapotement - purpose | show 🗑
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| Vibration - movement | show 🗑
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| Vibration - purpose | show 🗑
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| Vibration - effect | show 🗑
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| Joint mobilization - movement | show 🗑
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| Joint mobilization - purpose | show 🗑
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| show | Reduces stiffness in joints, increases freedom in joint, opens energy blockages.
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| show | The movement of energy is encourage through the use of focused intent. Therapist places hands over major body centers.
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| Energy - purpose | show 🗑
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| show | Relaxes, soothes, and calms the psyche.
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| show | Effleurage, Petrissage, Friction, Touch, Vibration, Joint Mobilization, Energy Hold
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| show | light to deep to light
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| show | single hand; double hand; support hand; surrounding grasp; loose fist; single forearm; double forearm
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| show | wringing; single hand; double hand; compression; fist/hand; double fist
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| show | stabilized finger; stablilzed hand; thumb; double thumb; elbow
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| Effleurage - element | show 🗑
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| show | very light to firm; care should be taken to begin lightly and gradually become more firm
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| show | air - think of lifting the muscle up and into the air and giving it room to breathe.
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| Petrissage - pressure | show 🗑
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| Friction - element | show 🗑
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| Friction - pressure | show 🗑
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| Tapotement - effect | show 🗑
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| Tapotement - element | show 🗑
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| show | pressure is determine by speed and frequency. Strong attention to the force of impact and the depth to which you intend to affect. Most important is the softness of the fingers, hands, wrists, and elbows, and the point from which this stroke originates.
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| show | hacking, cupping, slapping, pounding, tapping, plucking
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| Vibration - variations | show 🗑
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| show | ether - think of dissolving the muscle distress into the ethers, freeing up and creating space within the muscle to move and function more efficiently.
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| Vibration - pressure | show 🗑
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| Joint mobilization - variations | show 🗑
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| show | has qualities of all elements, primarily Air and Earth, as it opens and creates space for breath within the joint and so encourages grounding in the joints.
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| Energy - element | show 🗑
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| show | no pressure
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| Draping, reasons for | show 🗑
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| show | Sensation, Energy and Emotion, Meaning, and Beliefs
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| five types of touch | show 🗑
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| show | common, everyday touch that is either accidental or intentional, but without the intention to heal or affect a healing effect.
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| show | touch that has a healing effect whether it is intentional or not, whether it is performed by a professional or not.
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| Professional Touch | show 🗑
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| show | touch that is welcome and/or tolerated and is well-intentioned; touch that is helpful, healing, empowering, comforting, encouraging, or nurturing is always appropriate.
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| show | contact that is intentionally or unintentionally harmful, hurtful, disempowering, domineering, or unwanted; can be hostile, aggressive, intentionally erotic, or sexual; Those who know their touch is interpreted as inappropriate should cease the behavior.
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| show | the process of the restoration of balance and well-being as well as the elimination of disease.
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| show | Do no harm; Do positive good
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| Primary Assurances [therapists give their clients] | show 🗑
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| Primary Principles [of healing] | show 🗑
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| Transference | show 🗑
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| show | occurs when a therapist reacts to a client as if the client was someone from the therapist's past, with the therapist projecting feelings onto the client
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| Therapist's Responsibilities | show 🗑
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| Create a Sacred Space | show 🗑
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| Understand Your Role | show 🗑
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| show | Learn . . .
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| Personal Hygiene | show 🗑
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| Sanitation Practices | show 🗑
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| show | Plays a crucial role in the impression you make on others; Influences the success of a particular session; Clients notice the example you set and respond favorably or unfavorably (you may be able to influence your client to make better choices).
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| show | Comfort and Support; Direction; Pressure; Rate and Rhythm; Changes in Sign and Symptoms; Duration and Frequency; Relaxation
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| show | trim nails; keep your hands soft
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| Sanitation | show 🗑
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| Endangerment Sites for Swedish | show 🗑
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| show | All movement originates and returns to the center as an intergrated, unbroken flow.
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| show | Whenever possible, allow movement to lengthen and loosen rather than shorten and constrict.
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| show | Sink and soften instead of push and harden. Use your body' weight as a tool and save your strength.
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| show | Imagine a string from the center, pulling the head straight up and lengthening the neck as if your were a marionette.
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| show | In a soft locked position, straight, but not rigid.
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| Body Position Imagery - Knees | show 🗑
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| show | Imagine a 5,000 pound weight pulling the sacrum down to the earth.
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| Body Position Imagery - Feet | show 🗑
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| show | Keep your center (hips) behind your hands, allwoing for focus in one direction, hand always move in the direction the finger are pointing.
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| show | Relaxed and squared
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| show | Lower than your center to allow "sinking" as you move.
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| Effects of Massage - Aid | show 🗑
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| show | To relieve pain.
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| show | To treat specific problems through structural balancing and postural integration to achieve ideal posture.
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| Effects of Massage - Restore | show 🗑
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| show | Mechanical; Physiological; Psychological
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| Mechanical Effects | show 🗑
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| show | Lymph; Venous blood; Lung secretions; Edema; Intestinal contents: Hematoma Contents
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| show | Muscle fibers; Muscle masses; Tendons; Tendon Sheaths; Scar Tissue; Adhesions; Skin and Subcutaneous Tissue
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| show | Result from the physical and chemical changes that occur when the body is massaged.
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| Psychological Effects | show 🗑
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| Indication | show 🗑
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| show | When an approach could be harmful.
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| show | Must be viewed in light of individual circumstances. Therefore, contradications are considered in the three following ways: Absolute, Usual, Rare
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| Absolute Contraindications | show 🗑
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| Usual Contraindications | show 🗑
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| Rare Contraindications | show 🗑
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| Intake Interviews - First | show 🗑
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| Intake Interviews - Second | show 🗑
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| show | To assess the client's expectations.
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| Building Rapport - Purpose | show 🗑
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| show | 1. Acknowledging; 2. Confirming; 3. Feeding back information
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| show | 1. Verbal - match the tempo and tone; 2. Movement - Match the rhythm of movement of the client's body and posture; 3. Emotional expression - Match the state of emotions; 4. Energy level - Match the energy level displayed by the client.
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| Building Rapport - Do Not | show 🗑
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| show | Be supportive, be confirming; and validate your client's feelings.
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