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Topic: Soft Tissue
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Sort Desciption: massage therapists feel a client's tissues and know the health of the tissue, ... Therapist And Client Experiences Of Soft Tissue ...

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SOFT TISSUE RESISTANCE BARRIERS MASTER BOATBUILDERS TOUCH A PIECE OF WOOD and know the type of tree it came from, what its strengths and weaknesses are, and where it will do the most good in the boat they are building. In a similar way, masterful massage therapists feel a clients tissues and know the health of the tissue, how the client experiences the therapists touch, and what types of massage techniques the client both needs and enjoys. This delightful experience (for both therapist and client) flows from the therapists sensitivity and experience. She has given a lot of treatments, and listened with her fingers to her clients flesh, and with her ears to the T H E S E T O O L S F O R T E A C H I N G , P R A C T I C I N G A N D C O M M U N I C A T I N G W I T H Y O U R C L I E N T S W I L L H E L P Y O U B E C O M E M O R E A T T U N E D T O T H E I R N E E D S . Ebby May/Stone S p r i n g 2 0 0 3 WWW.AMTAMASSAGE.ORG 99 Technique Compression is a key feature of many massage manipulations. Compression ranges from static compression with a thumb, finger, elbow or the heel of the hand, to petrissage manipulations, which have a significant component of compression to them. In this article, we are examining only the simplest scenario, which is static compression. Take a moment and use your dominant hand to feel the tissues of the nondominant arm. Gently squeeze your forearm between thumb and fingers in several locations, noticing how the different locations in the forearm give very different resistance to the compressive force of the palpating hand. It is through this quality of resistance that we know we are contacting bone, perhaps a thin layer of muscle over bone, or a complex tangle of ropes that are the forearm muscles and their tendons! Now that you have had an initial feel of your forearm, lets use it to explore resistance barriers to compression. Find a band of muscle that feels harder, ...

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