Massage for children is to stimulate acupoints by various means, so that the channels and collaterals are unblocked and qi and blood flow, so as to achieve the purpose of adjusting the function of viscera, treating diseases and protecting health. Based on the principle of syndrome differentiation and treatment, it acts on children's specific acupoints or meridians through specific techniques, mainly to reconcile qi and blood, balance yin and yang, relax tendons and activate collaterals, assist human body's healthy qi, improve children's resistance and promote children's physical development.
Benefits of children's massage:
1, Enhance skin defense: Massage can enhance the secretion of sebaceous glands and sweat glands and improve skin metabolism. Moxibustion, rubbing, rubbing and patting can dilate skin capillaries, raise skin temperature and enhance skin defense function.
2. Conducive to the recovery of muscle tissue function: Massage can enhance muscle tension and elasticity, and is often used to treat muscular atrophy such as apraxia atrophy and polio sequelae. At the same time, it can improve the elasticity of muscles and tendons and loosen the adhesion between muscles and tendons and surrounding tissues.
3, improve immunity: Chinese medicine believes that massage acts on a certain part of the body surface, through the human body's meridians, qi and blood to dredge the meridians, promote qi and blood circulation, and regulate the balance of yin and yang in the body.
4, stimulate appetite, promote digestion: promote gastric acid secretion through local body stimulation, strengthen gastric contraction and intestinal peristalsis, and then promote food digestion and excretion.
5. Correct the abnormal anatomical position: children's skeletal joints are not fully developed, and the strength of joint ligaments is weak, which is prone to joint dislocation and tendon slippage. These conditions can be corrected by using correct massage techniques.
Taboo of children's massage
Fracture, traumatic bleeding; Skin injury, skin ulcer; Burns and scalds; Acute infectious diseases; Cancer and serious illness, etc.