A manual of therapeutic exercise and massage, designed for the use of physicians, students and masseurs (1917) (14761344226)

Identifier: manualoftherapeu00buch (find matches)

Title: A manual of therapeutic exercise and massage, designed for the use of physicians, students and masseurs

Year: 1917 (1910s)

Authors: Bucholz, C. Hermann (Carl Hermann), 1874-

Subjects: Exercise therapy Massage

Publisher: Philadelphia and New York, Lea & Febiger

Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library

Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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Fig. 17.—Effleurage of triceps. As has been said before, effleurage may be used over anypart of the body, not only over the muscles; but it shouldalways follow definite anatomical outlines. We have sometimes seen insufficiently trained persons applyeffleurage to the forearm, elbow and upper arm in one strokewithout any anatomical discrimination. Such a method is RUBBING MANIPULATIONS 81 entirely unscientific and may involve great dangers if theelbow-joint is at all affected. The chief aim of effleurage is to empty the veins andlymphatic vessels, to press their contents in physiologicaldirections, and, as the elastic walls of the vessels tend tospread and suck blood and lymph from behind, to act as a

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Fig. 18.—Knuckle eflEieurage of forearm. kind of pump. Thus the current of the circulation is renderedquicker and the nutrition of the tissues favored. If effleurageis repeated a number of times, varying with different indi-viduals, the skin will become reddened because an arterialhyperemia is produced which may last for a considerabletime. The temperature of the treated skin will be raised.Purthermore, an effect on the sensory nerves of the skin and6 82 TECHNIC OF MASSAGE the deeper parts is noted which may vary from a verysoothing agreeable sensation to a disagreeable irritation oreven pain, according to the strength of the manipulation andthe individual irritability. By the effleurage of larger areasof the body these effects on the sensory nerves can begeneralized and an effect on the central nervous system thusbe obtained. THE KNEADING MANIPULATIONS. Petrissage.—Petrissage is deep kneading and is usuallycombined with manipulations, such as grasping, lifting,wringing, rolling,

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