Sport Massage Technique

Massage can be done in two positions. First the athlete's body can be in a prone position and the second position is the supine athlete. Below is an explanation of how to do sport massage in athletes.

Effleugare (Rubbing)

Purpose: Giving excitement to nerve and tissue under the skin.
Aim :
Helps the performance of veins (veins).
Warm up.
Technique: Effleurage is usually carried out along the length of the muscle extension and towards the heart. This means that the blood vessels at the edge (in the skin), are the veins that contain blood flowing back to the heart. The implementation can be done using fingers, thumbs, one hand, alternating hands or together in accordance with the area being massaged, wide or narrow.

Petrisage (massaging)

Purpose: Destroys combustion residues and relaxes stiffness in the tissues.
Purpose: To facilitate transportation.
Technique: Implementation of petrisage for wide places can be done with both hands together or alternating hands in sequence. For a narrow area, it is enough to work with fingertips. While the direction is up and down freely.

Shaking

Purpose: Place buildings under the skin (muscles, blood vessels, nerves) in their respective places.
Purpose: To facilitate the flow or exchange of substances in these buildings, in their respective places.
Technique: In general, shaking can be done with one hand, but can also be done in two hands together. Especially places that are wide, for example in the area of ​​the abdomen or in the upper thigh. The direction of up and down is free, which is important, it is expected that some of the muscles there must be shaken. With shaking it is expected to help relax tensions.

Tapotement

Purpose: Having a vegetatior nerve muscle tone (unconscious) on perifeer tissue (edge).
Purpose: Increase muscle tone and boost blood circulation to the skin.
Technique: In general, tapotement is done with both hands alternately. The attitude of the hand can be in the form of half-clenching, fingers open or meeting, can also be with the back of the fingers, or by gripping the fingers of the fingers tightly. Usually tapotament is given in the area of ​​the waist, back and buttocks, but may also be given elsewhere if needed. The direction is up and down freely.

Friction

Purpose: Fengh destroy clots and hardening in the connective tissue and muscles.
Purpose: Normalize blood circulation and substance exchange.
Technique: Friction can be done with fingertips, thumbs, or base of the hand, according to circumstances. You do this by pressing the tips of the fingers and spinning sequentially while walking or in place. Usually used to destroy the stiffness of the muscles, the ends of the muscles and the joints. The direction goes up and down bebar.

Walken (Transverse Rubbing Muscles)

Purpose: The intent and purpose of the walken are the same as the purpose of effleurage is only different in its implementation.
Technique: Walken is given only in wide places and the implementation of the crossing of the muscles, while effleurage can be given anywhere and generally extends the muscle extension. Walken always digested with both hands, meeting fingers. With pressure, rub the hands in the opposite direction, one pulls and one pushes. The direction is up and down freely.

Vibration

Purpose: Gently stimulates the vegatatief nerves in the internal organs through the outside.
Objective: To influence important tools.
Technique: This vibration can be given through the tip of one finger, two fingers and three fingers pressed together. The way is by bending the elbow, the fingers are pressed in the desired place and then tighten the entire arm. Try this, usually given to sensitive places, for example under the head, around the joints, outside the scapula and so on. This vibration includes segment massage manipulation and is very effective to spur requirements in healing efforts.

Rolling Skin (Shifting the Skin Folds)

Purpose:
Removing skin from connective tissue
Widespread capillary blood vessels
Purpose: Increase buds and improve the exchange of substances and blood circulation under the skin.
Technique: For small places it can be done with only one hand, while for wide places it is done with both hands together. The way is by pinching the skin, thumb, pushed with the other fingers stepping forward. Rolling skiing including treatment manipulation can function to replace the scraping system to eliminate colds. Generally skin rolling is carried out across the muscles. The direction goes up and down bebar.

Stroking

Purpose:
Affects vegetatief nerves in tissues under the skin.
Search for or find out tissue disorders.
Purpose: Relaxing tissue so that blood circulation and substance exchange become good.
Technique: With the tip and two fingers, three fingers of the four fingertips are pressed together, then with pressure, the movements of the fingers are stretched between the muscles (inter mosculair) between the three (inter costae) and others. With this movement you will be able to find abnormalities in the form of hardening-hardening, tension, or lumps in the muscle. By finding these abnormalities it will be easier to treat them. Stroking movements can be done from the end towards the base, or it can also be from the side towards the middle in the back area.

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