Has anyone ever heard of............

[Guest guest]

A Massage technique where the client lies on their stomach and the

massage therapist " Twists " the skin along the spine? I had it done and

I'm wondering what it is.

 

 

Thanks,

 

 

Michelle Williams

 

A Wisconsin Licensed Nail Tech

[Guest guest]

It could be a number of modalities. There is a method called " Trager " which

actually requires the therapist to hold each vertabrae of the spine and " jiggle "

the client from that one point. It can have an incredibly calming effect on the

client. And, it can be overdone (which makes the client " seasick " ).

 

There are other modalities which require holding points along the spine, or in

Tuina, a Chinese method, folds of skin are twisted and pinched--both of which

sound painful, but are not.

 

Did you ask the therapist what he/she was doing?

 

Robert

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> " michellefulltime " <michellefulltime

> 2006/08/28 Mon PM 08:02:41 EDT

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> Has anyone ever heard of............

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> A Massage technique where the client lies on their stomach and the

> massage therapist " Twists " the skin along the spine? I had it done and

> I'm wondering what it is.

>

>

> Thanks,

>

>

> Michelle Williams

>

> A Wisconsin Licensed Nail Tech

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>

>

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>

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[Guest guest]

Michele,

Sometimes its hard to understand or know exactly what the therapist

is doing when you are unable to see their hands working the magic.

As far as a " twisting " feeling t here are a few techniques that can

generate this thumb rotation in a circular path up and down the

spine, a knuckle stretch with a squeezing of the flesh between

knuckled fingers, circular palmar pressure, alternate circular

palmar sroke, even a simple effleurage across the contours of your

back can feel a twisting sensation. Kneading the fleshy parts..or

wringing.

These all techniques which may feel a " twisting " sensation.

The thing about Massage is that there are so many different

schools, studies, and techniques. I have been studying eastern and

western techniques with a focus on sweedish and amma.

Good luck with your search,

Melanie

 

, " michellefulltime "

<michellefulltime wrote:

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> A Massage technique where the client lies on their stomach and the

> massage therapist " Twists " the skin along the spine? I had it done

and

> I'm wondering what it is.

>

>

> Thanks,

>

>

> Michelle Williams

>

> A Wisconsin Licensed Nail Tech

>

[Guest guest]

Hi Michelle,

 

I'm a massage student, and I was wondering if the therapists hands

were moving up/down at the time, or was it done in one spot, stopped,

then moved to another? That then would be called 'friction', and

it " refers to a number of massage strokes designed to manipulate soft

tissue so that one layer is moved over or against another. "

 

Roxy

 

 

, " michellefulltime "

<michellefulltime wrote:

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> A Massage technique where the client lies on their stomach and the

> massage therapist " Twists " the skin along the spine? I had it done

and

> I'm wondering what it is.

>

>

> Thanks,

>

>

> Michelle Williams

>

> A Wisconsin Licensed Nail Tech

>

[Guest guest]

That could bea number of things. Any good therapist will learn what they learn

in school, then kind of make their own way of it and come up with their own best

modalities and techniques. Massage IS an artform (to me, at least). In my

school we learned something similar to that, but I think my teacher just took

from her own personal lexicon and called it the " zigzag " or " zipper " ..depending

on the technique you are trying to convey. Again, remember that not everything

*I* do has a name, it just " makes sense " to me, to the body I am working on at

the time. If you like what your therapist is doing, go with it! I know one

therapist that will take a techniqu she may have learned from someone else, put

her own feel into it, then name that move after the person that taught it to

her. Fun, huh?

 

Jesica

Massage Practitioner in Wisconsin

 

 

 

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