Exercise in education and medicine / by R. Tait McKenzie.

  • R. Tait McKenzie
Date:
1909
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    5° current forward in the lymph-spaces and venous channels. It thus stimulates the circulation, respiration, nutrition, and ex¬ cretion. Mezger gives the best classification of procedures, describing four principal manipulations: i. Stroking (effleurage), in which the hand is passed lightly over the skin,with pressure from the periphery to the center, follow¬ ing the course of the venous circulation and the long direction of the muscles from their insertion to their origin. It may be per- Eig. 21.—Effleurage of the forearm. Note the distention of the veins above the hand that is passing upward. formed by stroking with the palm of one or both hands, with the thumb or tips of the fingers. The two hands are used upon the large fleshy parts of the thighs and buttocks, or upon the chest, back, and neck. The thumb is used on small muscles hemmed in by bones, such as the interossei of the hand or foot, or the anterior muscles of the leg. The tips of the fingers are used around the joints of the knee, ankle, elbow, or wrist, the fingers adapting themselves to the shape of the part worked upon. The strength of the manipulations varies from the slightest touch upon a region sensitive to pressure, to the firm pressure with one hand