Massage as a mode of treatment / by William Murrell.

  • William Murrell
Date:
1886
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Credit: Massage as a mode of treatment / by William Murrell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PETRISSAGE but produces good results when combined in various ways with the other procedures to be presently de- scribed. It is essential that the movement should be as much as possible in the direction of the muscle fibres. It should never degenerate into mere rubbing. Every movement begins and ends with an effleu- rage performed quickly and perhaps forcibly. For deep seated tissues the knuckles may be used instead of the palm of the hand. Next comes petrissage which is more important and is by no means easy to acquire. It is this procedure above all others, as Lee of Philadelphia has pointed out, by which we act upon the cir- culation of the deep-seated parts and modify the processes of tissue metamorphosis. It is a power- ful excitant to the capillary circulation, and stim- ulant to secretion, and an awakener of dormant nervous energy. It consists essentially in picking up a portion of muscle or other tissue with both hands, or the fingers of one hand, and subjecting it to firm pressure, rolling it at the same time between the fingers and the subjacent tissues. The hands must move simultaneously, and in opposite directions.
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