Leg Massage Tutorial 1/4

Preparation 

• Wash the feet with showergel (apply it on a wet washcloth) 
• Rinse the feet with water (with a wet washcloth, no showergel) 
• Put two warm towels(hot compresses) on each leg and apply pressure at several points on the leg
• Apply massage oil and spread it over both legs.

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Everything has to be done 3 times, unless otherwise stated.

Backside of the leg

Done with two hands symmetrically to both sides of the leg.     
1. Effleurage entire leg

-          Longitudinal effleurage of the lower leg, from heel to popliteal space/fossa (backside of the knee).

-          Then when you get to the knee you relax your hands.

-          Continue the movement by doing a crosswise effleurage of the upper leg (the thigh)

-          Gently touch the skin at the sides of the leg with your fingertips as you make your way down. 

2.  Intermittent pushing entire leg 1x

-          Take up the tissue with open hand from the sides. (1.)

-          Clap together your hands with the thumbs against each other. (1.)

-          Apply pressure with your thenar(the thumb side of the palm of your hand), hold for 8 seconds. (2.)

-          Clap open your hands. (3.)

-          Do this all way down to leg, from tight to ankle.

-          Except for the popliteal space/fossa, don’t apply pressure there but do keep contact with the skin.

Continue with the:   Upper leg (tigh)

1.      Effleurage thigh

-          Perform a crosswise effleurage.

-          Touch the skin lightly with your fingertips as you go down the upperleg.

2.      Hand-over- hand Effleurage

-          Stand at the side of the leg.

-          Start at the popliteal space/fossa.

-          The hand you begin with is the hand closest to the popliteal space/fossa.

-          You follow with the other hand.

-          End at the butt with that hand (the hand closest to the butt)

-          You have to make 3 of these movements (6 strokes) each time.

-          You do this over the inside of the leg, upside of the leg and the outside of the leg.

3.      Petrissage innerside 

-          Pick up the muscle at the popliteal fossa/space (innerside of the leg) with the pinky side of your hands.

-          With the thumb side of your other hand you apply counter-pressure.

-          You take over the muscle with the pinky side of that other hand.

-          Keep doing this till you can’t go any further, so when you reach the butt.

-          Come back by touching the skin lightly.

4.      Walkaround: Petrissage outerside

-          The same as above (3.), but with the muscle on the outerside of the leg.

5.      Thumb-effleurage/Thumb-rotation/Thumb-effleurage (W-effleurage)

-          Form a W with your hands and skim up (with pressure).

-          Touch the skin on the sides lightly with your fingertips as you make your way down again.

-          Then after 1 W-effleurage you go further with the W-rotation: Again hands form a W, but you move alternately. Do end symmetrically though. 

-          Then do a W-effleurage again.

-          1 = W-effleurage, W-rotation, W-effleurage

6.      Tapotements: zie verplichte grepen 1x

-          Battre/Cupping:  Hold the tips of your thumb and indexfinger together. The sound that you make with cupping is very important.

-          Hacking: Relax your hands as you you hack.

-          Fist

-          Everything has to be done in a S-shape. Start at the popliteal space/fossa, go to the butt and end at the popliteal space. And then you do it backwards. So eventually you end where you started.

7.      Hand-over-hand Effleurage

8.      Shaking: start at/right under the butt

-          Pick up the tissue near the butt with two hands and then shake your way down. 

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