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Massage set for Martial Artist injury recovery

December 17, 2009 on 5:37 pm | In Health/Qigong/Healing, TCM, Massage and Dietary therapy | No Comments

Basic series:
Patient on back-
place pads under knees
1. Head/neck
2. Right leg
3. head/neck
4. Left leg
5. head/neck
6. right arm
7. head/neck
8. left arm
9. head/neck

Head/neck region

1. lift head toward sternum
2. twist head left and right
3. turn head toward ear and push on shoulder
4. pull head elongating spine.

Legs-
1. lift leg as far as can go comfortably
2. press knee into chest
3. circle hip joint both directions
4. bicycle circles and reverse direction
5. pull leg

Arms-
1. relaxing shaking of arm and pull up/front of body
2. relaxing shaking of arm and pull toward feet
3. relaxing shaking of arm and pull laterally
4. relaxing shaking of arm and pull across body
5. relaxing shaking of arm and pull close to ear

Patient on stomach-
Series for the back:
place pads under ankles
1. circle palm 9x on sacral region and reverse direction
2. circle palm 9x on lower back and reverse direction
3. circle palm 9x on mid back and reverse direction
4. circle palm 9x on upper back and reverse direction.
5. place one palm on shoulder and other on opposite hip and circle hip
6. switch #5 to opposite shoulder/hip and repeat.
7. on left side on back. you can do the circle going up to shoulder and circle shoulder
8. repeat #7 on right side of back.
9. pull the legs