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Methods of Carrying Out a Swedish MassageA Swedish massage is carried out through techniques that are different from the other massage types. They are usually focused on a specific part of the body and the pressure applied is deeper. Below are the methods that one can adapt in carrying out a Swedish massage:

• Effleurage: With this technique, you use your hands’ palm or fingertips to make long strokes as though you are wiping off something. The pressure applied should be alternated with some firm and others done lightly. With this massage, the pressure or tension in the muscle being massaged will be gone.
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• Petrissage:  With this technique, you kneed the muscles to make the massage get deeper using your thumbs and fingers’ knuckles.  This can be done in preparation for a different technique of the Swedish massage.

• Rhythmic tapping: this is carried out by use of fists of your cupped hands to rhythmically tap the targeted muscles. You will tap on the muscles with the sides of your hands and by the end of the exercise; the muscles will be relaxed and let loose.

• Friction: the main aim of this massage is to generate heat which will make the muscles relax. You will rub the palms of your hands together on the skin of the person you are massaging so that heat can be produced as a result of the friction. A person being prepared for a deep massage will be taken through this massage to prepare him.

• Vibration: This massage is carried out by moving your fingertips over the targeted skin and the main aim is to let the muscles loosen up. In doing this, you will shake up, loosen, and also relax every muscle of the person being massaged.

A person suffering from joint pain or stiffness will benefit from these Swedish massages that are easy to carry out at home. Emotional stress will also be relieved as the person being massaged will be re-energized and the blood circulation improved. 

 
 

 

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