Effleurage
- Created by: Samantha Banks
- Created on: 10-12-14 18:51
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- Effleurage
- Characteristics
- Long sweeping movements
- Towards the heart
- Applied with hands, hand or forearm
- Intro, linking & finishing stroke
- Effects
- Sedative or stimulating- intensity & duration
- Increase blood flow to area
- Reduce congestion, e.g, swelling
- Increase tissue temp. thus increasing local circulation
- Relieve pain- stimulates nerve endings
- Increase ROM- increase mobility of superficial tissue
- Techniques
- Figure 8
- 1/2 moon
- Flat hand
- V stroke
- Rotary
- Butterfly (& reverse)
- Cam & spindle
- Pisiform
- Heel & thumb
- Bilateral
- Opposing & Forearm glide
- Rake (& reverse)
- Characteristics
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