How to Do Myotherapy Massage
Myotherapy massage, more commonly known as trigger point therapy, is a popular form of massage therapy. It is the method of treating trigger points or knots in muscle tissue. A trigger point is caused when a muscle is injured or strained. The muscle tightens up in the area where it was injured. This tightened area restricts blood flow and traps the muscle's waste causing the area to hurt. Sometimes trigger points hurt only in the area of injury, other times the pain is referred to another area. Knowing how to treat these trigger points with myotherapy is an good way to relieve your clients' muscle pain and encourage healing.
Things You'll Need:
a partner
a comfortable place for your partner to lay down
1
Decide with your partner what area you will work on. This should be an area where your partner has been feeling some discomfort.
2
Use the pads of your fingers, your thumb and your knuckle to feel around this area using small circular strokes. You are looking for lumpy or hard areas in the muscle tissue.
3
When you find an area that is hard, find the middle of that area, press down on it and ask your partner if it hurts. Sometimes you'll press down on a spot and it will hurt somewhere other than the place you are pressing. This is called referred pain.
4
Using a scale of 1-10, 1 being the least amount of pain and 10 being the most, ask how much pain your partner is experiencing when you press on the spot. Then back off until they are at about a 2 or 3.
5
Hold it at that level for about 10 seconds. Now back off the spot completely so that they are at a zero but don't take your finger off the spot. Don't press on the spot for 2 seconds.
6
Now apply pressure again to the same level, a 2 or 3, for 10 seconds. It's important that you are pushing the exact same spot as before at the exact same angle.
7
Repeat this pressure on and off method for until the pain goes away, but no longer than 2 minutes.
Tips & Warnings
Myotherapy massage can make your partner feel sick. It's important not to work on too many trigger points in one session.
If done incorrectly myotherapy can cause injury to tissue so you should be properly trained before trying it.
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Myotherapy massage, more commonly known as trigger point therapy, is a popular form of massage therapy. It is the method of treating trigger points or knots in muscle tissue. A trigger point is caused when a muscle is injured or strained. The muscle tightens up in the area where it was injured. This tightened area restricts blood flow and traps the muscle's waste causing the area to hurt. Sometimes trigger points hurt only in the area of injury, other times the pain is referred to another area. Knowing how to treat these trigger points with myotherapy is an good way to relieve your clients' muscle pain and encourage healing.
Things You'll Need:
a partner
a comfortable place for your partner to lay down
1
Decide with your partner what area you will work on. This should be an area where your partner has been feeling some discomfort.
2
Use the pads of your fingers, your thumb and your knuckle to feel around this area using small circular strokes. You are looking for lumpy or hard areas in the muscle tissue.
3
When you find an area that is hard, find the middle of that area, press down on it and ask your partner if it hurts. Sometimes you'll press down on a spot and it will hurt somewhere other than the place you are pressing. This is called referred pain.
4
Using a scale of 1-10, 1 being the least amount of pain and 10 being the most, ask how much pain your partner is experiencing when you press on the spot. Then back off until they are at about a 2 or 3.
5
Hold it at that level for about 10 seconds. Now back off the spot completely so that they are at a zero but don't take your finger off the spot. Don't press on the spot for 2 seconds.
6
Now apply pressure again to the same level, a 2 or 3, for 10 seconds. It's important that you are pushing the exact same spot as before at the exact same angle.
7
Repeat this pressure on and off method for until the pain goes away, but no longer than 2 minutes.
Tips & Warnings
Myotherapy massage can make your partner feel sick. It's important not to work on too many trigger points in one session.
If done incorrectly myotherapy can cause injury to tissue so you should be properly trained before trying it.
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