Massage refers to the method of operating specific parts of the body or acupuncture points and Ashi points with hands or other parts of limbs according to various specific skills for the purpose of treatment and health care.
Massage technique, various technical movements implemented in massage. It can stimulate meridians and acupoints or specific parts of the human body through many different forms of operation methods.
Some of them are mainly based on pressing, such as pressing, pressing, pointing, holding and rubbing. Some are mainly friction, such as pushing, rubbing, rubbing, rubbing, rubbing, etc. Some mainly vibrate limbs, such as flapping and shaking; Some are mainly active limb joints, such as shaking, pulling and stretching. * * * There are about one hundred kinds.
Requirements: The basic requirements of massage techniques are persistence, strength, uniformity and softness. "Persisting for a long time" means that this technique can be used continuously for a certain period of time to maintain the consistency of action and strength.
"Powerful" means that the manipulation must have a certain strength, and it changes according to the object of treatment, constitution, deficiency and excess of disease and syndrome, treatment site and manipulation nature. "Uniformity" means that the rhythm, frequency and strength of manipulative movements should be determined. "Softness" refers to the softness and flexibility of manipulations and the relaxation of strength. We should not use stagnant brute force or sudden violence, but be "light but not floating, heavy but not stagnant"
The above requirements are closely related and complement each other. Holding for a long time can make the technique gradually deep and powerful, and even and coordinated movements can make the technique softer, while the combination of strength and skill makes the technique both rigid and flexible, which is called "combining rigidity and flexibility". In the mastery of manipulation, strength is the foundation, and manipulation skill is the key, and the two must be combined.