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Title: A manual of therapeutic exercise and massage, designed for the use of physicians, students and masseurs
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Bucholz, C. Hermann (Carl Hermann), 1874-
Subjects: Exercise therapy Massage
Publisher: Philadelphia and New York, Lea & Febiger
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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Fig. 21.—Kneading of anterior and posterior axillar muscles. Kneading has a stimulating effect on the vessels, especiallythe smaller arteries of the deeper parts. It stimulates themuscle tonus and acts as a kind of passive exercise ofthe muscles. In connection with effleurage it relieves thefatigued muscle by removing its contents of waste products.Retracted muscles and tendons are stretched, and thus 80 TECHNIC OF MASSAGE limitation of motion may be relieved. Done over a largeI)art of the body, kneading raises the blood-pressure con-siderably, more so than effleurage alone, although this effectis best accomplished l)y a mixed massage and by vibrationand shakinu of the whole bodw
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Fig. 22.—Kneading or stroking of posterior axillar muscle.s. Friction.—There is some dissension among writers onmassage as to the use of the term friction. Some interpret itas rubbing over the skin in small circles; others use it in themeaning of rubbing over and tvith the skin; while othersagain call friction a manipulation which consists in movingthe skin over the underlying parts. Following the lead of CLAPPING AND SHAKING MANIPULATIONS 87 authorities such as Metzger, v. Mosengeil, Hoffa and others,we use the term friction in the last-mentioned sense only,while similar manipulations done over the skin are dealtwifh under the heading Rubbing. There is a very decideddifference in the technic as well as in the effect of these twomanipulations, and they should not be confused, thoughwe admit that the word friction itself would allow variousinterpretations. Friction consists of a variety of manipulations done withone or more fingers or with parts or the whole of one or bothhands. Th

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