The knuckle massage is a massage that serves to remove contractual and to work the deepest plans of our body, that is, to work the deepest muscles. This is so because with the knuckles we can apply more pressure than with our hands while reaching deeper areas. Knuckles are used in decontrolling massages, not in massages whose purpose is to relax the patient. Keep reading this article and take note of how to do a knuckle massage.
Steps to follow:
One. You never have to start a massage directly with the knuckles, because it is a somewhat aggressive technique for the patient. In addition, your body is not prepared nor has it received the information that you are going to give a decontrolling massage.
Two. The first step is that once the patient is lying on a stretcher or bed face up or face down, depending on the area to which the massage should be applied and without clothing in the area to be treated. The person who will give the massage has to smear his fingertips with cream or the lotion that he wants to use to give the massage and then rub both hands to warm them.
3. Then you have to place your hands on the area of the patient’s body to be treated and you have to rub the entire surface. With increasing pressure. With gentle frictions, the body is prepared and warned that this area of the body will be treated next, with them the skin is mobilized. On the other hand, with deeper frictions and rubs, which are achieved by applying more pressure, deeper tissues are mobilized.
4. When you have done about 5 repetitions of friction with the knuckles over the entire surface, move on to gently kneading the area to be treated to prepare and warm up the muscles. Then the kneading has to be with more pressure to work the area more.
5. The next movement already consists of doing the massage with the knuckles. To do this, the person performing the massage has to bend the fingers of his hand, that is, he has to close his hands and the prominence that are seen are the knuckles with which he has to do the massage. Straight arms and fists in the area of the body to be treated, so that the knuckles and fingers of the person giving the massage are in contact with the patient’s skin. The movement consists of sliding the cuffs with pressure along the entire surface to be treated or massaged so that it relaxes. You have to insist with the knuckles in those areas that are more contracted.
6. Then the person who gives the massage has to do a few rubs in the area of the body that has been previously worked, applying less and less pressure. And therefore, moving from working the deepest areas to the most superficial of the patient’s body. This is how the massage will be finished.
