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Massage Therapy Treatments
Sports Massage and Recovery Treatment Series
Upper Body Recovery Massage
treatment time: 30 Minutes
An upper-body sports massage for those who use their upper body for many adventures. Your clients will climb to the top of their game again and again with this specialized massage using Prossage and Biofreeze products. Add Biofreeze Gel at the end of this treatment to assist in relieving sore muscles and joints, and your clients will leave with muscles ready for the next adventure.
Contraindications:
• Sunburn
• Open sores
• Contusions
• Acute pain or injury
Products used in treatment:
• Massage Oil • Prossage Oil • Biofreeze Gel
• Skin rashes or conditions • Fractures
• Hematomas
treatment Protocol:
1. Add a few drops of Prossage to the palm of your hand. Rub hands together briskly. With client laying face down, apply e eurage strokes down the back.
2. Move to the left side of the table and apply circular friction hand over hand to the right side of the body concentrating on moving the skin in circles with ngers from shoulder to hip. Repeat three times.
3. From the left side of the table, apply petrissage to the right side of the body, moving from hip up the side of the body to shoulder and back of neck. Repeat three times.
4. Move to the right side of the table and repeat on the other side of the body.
5. Apply compression along the side of the para-spinal muscles from the sacrum to the
shoulders three times. Repeat three times on the other side of the body.
6. Move to the head of the table and apply direct pressure along the para-spinal muscles from top of the shoulders to the sacrum. Repeat three times.
7. Finish back massage with e eurage.
8. Apply e eurage, compression and striping strokes to the forearm from the wrist to elbow.
9. E eurage from the elbow to the shoulder using massage oil. Repeat three times.
10. Use compression then circular friction from the elbow to shoulder.
11. Apply compression from the deltoid to the auxiliary border of the scapula.
12. Use e eurage strokes from the right wrist up the arm, around the shoulder and down the back.
13. Repeat arm sequence on the other side.
14. Turn client to face up position.
15. From the middle side of the massage table, apply e eurage strokes to the forearm from wrist to elbow using oil.
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