Swedish Massage- example sequences
Upper limb - client is seated, side-lying or supine
Lower arm
- Effleurage from backs of fingers, across backs of hands to elbow (up medial and return lateral aspect)
- Turn hand over and repeat effleurage
- Effleurage individual fingers
- Friction proximal, distal inter-phalangeal and metacarpo-phalangeal joints
- Friction thenar eminence and hypo-thenar eminence
- Friction carpal joints
- Effleurage fingers and hands to forearm and elbow (support wrist)
- Friction radial and ulnar borders
- Friction elbow joint
- Effleurage upper arm (light return)
- Petrissage forearm
- Petrissage upper arm
- Move finger and hand joints
- Effleurage from hand & fingers to lateral border of arm working over top of humerus (light return)
