Healing Massage: Simple Techniques to Soothe Pain and Find Relief at Home by Love CMT NMT NMTHE Jennifer

Author:Love CMT NMT NMTHE, Jennifer [Love CMT NMT NMTHE, Jennifer]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Rockridge Press
Published: 2020-06-29T16:00:00+00:00

1 . From your partner’s right side, cross your arms and hook your right hand into their ribs and your left hand into their hipbone. Use your lunge to press your hands apart and stretch their side, particularly the quadratus lumborum .

2 . From your partner’s head, stack your palms over their tailbone and press down toward their feet to stretch their lower back.

Basic Massage: Acupressure (light pressure, 1 to 2)

1 . Hold UB23, the point on the back midway between the ribs and the hipbone, one finger-width away from the spine. This point relieves lower-back tension, kidney-related issues, sexual issues, earaches, coughs, and asthma.

2 . Hold UB47, the point on the back that is three finger-widths away from the spine and three finger-widths down from the corner of the shoulder blade. This point relieves tension in the quadratus lumborum muscles, helps with vomiting, diarrhea, and breathing problems, and reduces symptoms of depression and anxiety.

3 . Hold UB54, the point on the back of the leg in the middle of the crease of the knee. This point relieves stiffness and lower-back pain caused by disc and nerve issues (including sciatica ), knee pain and stiffness, leg pain, muscle spasms, skin problems, and issues with overheating.

Advanced Massage: Trigger Point Therapy (medium to firm pressure, 2 to 4)

Warm up your partner’s muscles using one or more of the basic massage techniques before moving on to trigger point therapy.

1 . Starting on one side of the lower back, find the edges of the quadratus lumborum by locating the top of your partner’s hip bone (the pelvis ), their lower-back (lumbar ) spine, and the bottom of their ribs.

2 . First, find spots on your partner’s lower back that cause pain (or that send pain to another area of their body). This sensation tells you there is a trigger point in that spot.

3 . Use the trigger point therapy technique on the following areas in your partner’s lower back that cause or refer pain:

• Where their spine meets the bottom of their ribs.

• Where their hipbone meets their spine.

• On the edge of this muscle toward the side of your partner’s body where it doesn’t attach to any bones. You will likely feel a thick, dense band of muscle. Making a C with your hands, hook your thumbs under that band and press up and in until you find another tender spot.

• On your partner’s tailbone (the low-lower back).

• On your partner’s upper glutes, just below the edges of the hipbones.

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