Wellness Massage Product Supplies and Techniques

Detailed vocabulary flashcards covering massage products, techniques, strokes, and session timing based on the lecture notes.

Massage lotion

A product that helps reduce stress, improves circulation, and helps to reduce fatigue.

Massage creams and body butter

Products used to moisturize the skin and help reduce wrinkles.

Aromatic massage oils

Oils that serve as an anxiety reliever, increase calmness and relaxation, decrease muscle tension, act as a pain reliever, and relieve depression.

Sweet Almond Oil

The industry standard for a full-body massage; it is lightweight, absorbs at a moderate rate, and is rich in Vitamin E for hydration.

Fractionated Coconut Oil

A highly moisturizing, non-greasy product with a very long shelf life.

Jojoba Oil

An oil that mimics the skin's natural oils, making it excellent for sensitive skin types.

Massage draping

The use of sheets or towels to keep a client covered, warm, and modest during a treatment.

Effleurage

A technique where hands skim over the surface of the tissues; the word comes from the French verb effleurer, meaning to "skim over".

Petrissage

A group of manipulations coming from the French verb pétrir, meaning to knead.

Palmar kneading

Kneading performed with the palmar surface of the hand.

Digital kneading

Kneading performed with the digits (index, middle, and ring fingers).

Thumb kneading

Kneading performed with the thumbs.

Ulnar border kneading

Kneading performed with the little finger side or ulnar bone of the hand.

Wringing

A manipulation where tissues are lifted away from the bone and pushed and wrung from side to side as the hands move up and down.

Picking up

A manipulation where tissues are lifted away from the bone, squeezed, and released with one or both hands.

Skin Rolling

A manipulation that presses and rolls the skin and subcutaneous tissues against the underlying bone.

Muscle Rolling

A manipulation that lifts the muscle away from the bone and moves it from side to side in a rocking manner.

Percussion or Tapotement

A technique where the hands strike tissues; includes Hacking, Cupping, Beating, and Pounding.

Shaking

A big, coarser movement that produces shaking of the muscle.

Vibrations

Fine movements that merely produce a tremor within the tissues.

Typical Body Massage Duration

Usually $1\,\text{hour}$ but may be longer.

Right leg duration

$$7\,\text{minutes}$$

Left leg duration

$$7\,\text{minutes}$$

Left arm duration

$$5\,\text{minutes}$$

Right arm duration

$$5\,\text{minutes}$$

Decollate duration

$$5\,\text{minutes}$$

Abdomen duration

$$5\,\text{minutes}$$

Back of legs duration

$$6\,\text{minutes}$$

Back duration

$$20\,\text{minutes}$$