Back Massage London



Ensure that you work all the way down from the top of the shoulders to the sacrum at the base of the spine, but avoid placing your hands underneath the client’s underwear. Repeat four or five times.
Now check if the area at the back of the shoulder blade is tight—ask your clients to put their hand behind their back so that the shoulder blade is a little raised. Use a pillow to support the arm so that the clients do not need to hold the arm up themselves. If you are working with people with multiple sclerosis or Down syndrome, always ask them to move their arm into this position themselves so that you do not overstretch by assisting them in the move. If clients cannot raise their arm up to their back you can simply ask them to place their arm on the massage table next to their body. You should be able to either see or feel the shoulder blade, and you will be working on the area inside this. Using the flat of your thumb, simply press down so that your thumb moves underneath the edge of the shoulder blade.

There are enormous natural variations in how much someone’s shoulder blade will raise, so there is no right or wrong depth to work to; simply slide under it, hold until the muscle begins to relax, and then move further up so that you cover the whole area. Support the arm as it relaxes back to its original position. Many home massage London therapists use special massage tables.

You can now return to the shoulders and treat the top of the shoulders. This is easier with your client facedown, but you can adapt it to the client lying faceup by reaching underneath the shoulders, or you can work with the client seated.

Start at the top of the shoulders at the center with your thumbs either side of the spine, and you can stroke outward and down across the trapezius muscles above; you can also use the palm of your hand or even your forearm to carry out these moves, being careful not to massage on the spine or the ribs.
While it is nice for the client if you start this work moving downward, once you have the muscles warmed up you can work in any direction; you may notice the skin redden—this is not a problem so long as you are not working too deeply for the client.

As you work, the muscle will start to soften. If you work on an area that your client reports is tender or that you can feel is tight you can press and hold on that spot, you may need to hold the pressure for one or two minutes for it to release; if you do use this technique always massage over the wider muscle again afterward.
To work the teres major and infraspinatus, positioned in the back just behind the armpit and shoulder, you should start by massaging inward from the outside of the body. For clients who lift weights, who drive a lot, or who spend long hours at a computer, this can be a very tender muscle; if this is the case working with the flat of your hand will be tolerated much better than working with thumb or fingers. Once you have warmed up this area you can again work in any direction.

Moving to the base of the spine, we now need to massage the sacrum to complete the back massage. The sacrum is a flattened bony area at the base of the spine.

If you feel across it with your fingers you should be able to find the edges of the sacrum. It is safe to massage with gentle to medium pressure over this area; if you are new to massage only use gentle pressure. Using thumb pressure, work your way along and across the whole sacrum so that you cover the whole area with a press and release action; hold each press for five to ten seconds.

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