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Massage Therapy Treatments
Sports Massage and Recovery Treatment Series
Lower Body Recovery Massage
treatment time: 30 Minutes
Prossage Heat is used in this treatment to provide relief to hips, ankles, calves, quads, hamstrings, and the soles of feet that have hiked, biked, or run through nature. A must for those clients who are using the lower body on a daily basis. The lower body will be thankful after this treatment.
treatment Bene ts:
• Assists recovery after exercise • Reduces muscle spasm
• Increases circulation
Contraindications:
• Sunburn
• Open sores
• Contusions
• Thrombophlebitis • Fever or infections
Products used in treatment:
• Massage Oil • Prossage Oil • Biofreeze Gel
• Relieves stress
• Reduces discomfort and pain • Improves range of motion
• Skin rashes or conditions • Fractures
• Hematomas
• Acute pain or injury
treatment Protocol:
1. Start at the bottom of the table
2. Add a few drops of Prossage to the palm of your hand. Rub hands together briskly.
with the client face down.
Undrape the leg and apply e eurage strokes from the ankle to the knee.
3. Apply petrissage, compression and broadening strokes to the calves from the knee to the ankle. Repeat three times.
4. Use back of hand and stripping strokes to bottom of the foot.
5. Support the ankle while performing range of motion movements.
6. Apply e eurage, petrissage compression and broadening strokes to the thigh from the knee to the hip using massage oil. Repeat three times.
7. Apply range of motion movements to the knee.
8. Apply compression to the right hip around the greater trochanter.
9. Apply compression between greater trochanter and sacrum with the knee exed to 90° while rocking the hip in internal and external rotation.
10. Finish the right leg by applying e eurage strokes from foot to hip.
11. Repeat leg sequence on other side. This sequence should take 7 1/2 minutes.
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