Learn 14 common massage techniques to be your own massage therapist (both adult and baby)

As an urban office worker, we know how exhausting it is to work hard in modern society. I feel tired when I come home at night. A little bit of illness is hard to carry, no time to go to the hospital; Want to go massage to hold, feel cost is expensive again...

In fact, there are many minor ailments that we can deal with ourselves. Today tidying up to everyone is usually the most commonly used massage technique, not difficult at all, the effect is greatly good, adult baby is applicable! Learn together --

1. Direct push

Use your thumb to point to your belly, index finger, and middle finger to your abdomen. This method is mainly used for the operation of linear acupoint, such as opening the sky gate, clearing the sky river, etc.

Rhythm: brisk.

2. Spin pushing

Use thumb to make clockwise rotation and push motion on acupoint. This method is mainly used for finger thread surface, such as filling spleen meridian and kidney meridian, and can pass and viscera.

Rhythm: brisk.

3. Partial derivation

Both thumb and abdomen are placed at specific points, and then pushed to the sides. The force and position of the push should be symmetrical, and the speed should be uniform. It is mainly used in canong, chest, abdomen and back, and it is pushed to the left and right direction in each operation part, which is called dividing forehead Yin and Yang, hand Yin and Yang, chest Yin and Yang, abdomen Yin and Yang, back Yin and Yang, and has the function of balancing Yin and Yang, benefiting qi and blood.

Rhythm: brisk.

4、The method of

The skin should be lightly pasted by the palm, big fish or the root of the palm, and the skin should move gently and slowly. Mofa is very gentle and comfortable. It is often used for chest, abdomen, flank and other parts. It has the function of adjusting gas and stomach and intestines, and can help you sleep.

Rhythm: slow.

5, shipment method

Place your thumb on the acupoint and make a circular or curved motion from here to there, as if you were drawing a circle. Be smooth and do not take sudden turns or break the trajectory. This method is more used in the inner eight trigrams of the palm, and has the effect of wide chest and diaphragm, regulating qi and reducing phlegm.

Rhythm: brisk.

6, wipe method

Use the palm to be pressed against the skin to make linear round trip friction, make contact surface produces certain quantity of heat and become warm, if brush rachis, brush lung yu, have the effect that warm classics moves collaterals, line qi moves blood.

Rhythm: faster, with warmth as the degree.

7, according to the law

Press with thumb, forefinger or middle finger abdomen, press with palm root, gently press and hold the skin, rest for a few seconds, relax and press again. Strength should first light then heavy, from shallow to deep. According to the method can be used alone, or combined with kneading, become a composite technique; According to the law or kneading law applicable to the whole body acupoint, such as kneading three li, by day sudden. This method stimulation is stronger, the frequency is similar to the pointer, if the massage part is in the upper body, may grasp the rhythm along with the breath, when exhaling press down gently, when inhaling the handle relaxes.

Rhythm: slow. 7, according to the law

8, rubbing method

Use your thumb or middle finger to your stomach, or your palm big fish or the root of your palm. Be careful not to move on the surface of the body during the operation. Kneading can be used on acupoints, even on the face and all parts of the body, such as zhongwan, back shu point, navel, etc., to broaden the chest qi, blood circulation and remove stasis, swelling and pain.

Rhythm: brisk.

9, sweep method

Place your palm lightly on your skin and move slowly and steadily in the same direction. The sweep is very comfortable and allows the subject to relax and calm down.

Rhythm: gentle and slow.

10, pounding

Flexed forefinger or middle finger, with the back of the first interphalangeal joint percussion points, fast rise and fall, strong sense of rhythm. The ramming method is mostly used for the points and points, such as the small heart of the sky, which can clear the heat, calm the mind and calm the mind.

Rhythm: brisk.

11, shooting method

With fingers together and palms slightly cupped, tap the skin. Be careful to tap lightly and simultaneously with the palm of the cup rather than the whole hand, making a dull sound rather than a crisp slap. This technique is mostly used on the back, when coughing has phlegm.

Rhythm: faster (40 ~ 60 times/min).

12, vibration,

Keep the force in the palm, and make the palm, fingers and forearm produce faster vibration wave, so that the affected part can feel the vibration. Can relax muscle activity, analgesic stop itch. Use in navel or skin pruritus place, can arouse classics gas, calm stop urticant.

Rhythm: brisk.

13, holding it

To hold and hold is to hold with the thumb and the other four fingers and knead certain parts at the same time. The movements should be smooth and consistent. Take method to stimulate stronger, use at body muscle more abundant organization, if shoulder ministry, thigh or upper arm, if take a shoulder well, take wind pool, take chengshan, not only can dredge the main and collateral channels, hair sweat solution watch, also be effective loosen gimmick.

Rhythm: slow.

14, knead ridge

Place your thumbs on both sides of your spine, starting from the lowest point of the lower lumbar coccyx, using your thumbs and your middle two fingers to pinch the skin around the spine, and push forward from the bottom to the shoulders, then back to the starting point and start again. Push forward and pinch the time and strength to cooperate properly, pinch too tight, the other side will feel pain, the finger is not easy to move forward; Pinching is too light to lift the skin. Repeat 5 to 9 times. During the last operation, every three times, to enhance the stimulation of the relevant points, this method can regulate the viscera and strengthen the body. Note that redness is a normal reaction to anger. Don't worry, but don't put pressure on your spine.

Rhythm: operate at a steady speed with smooth movements.